San Francisco Prepares To Suspend Cops And Firefighters Who Refuse To Disclose Vaccination Status

San Francisco is preparing to suspend nearly two-dozen employees with the police, fire, and sheriff's departments who have refused to disclose their vaccination status, while hundreds of employees from other departments are about to be similarly put on notice, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The city sent notifications to 20 employees in the police, fire and sheriff's departments for failing to meet an Aug. 12 disclosure deadline, while employees from other departments - including Public Health and the Municipal Transportation Agency, could receive similar letters next week.

The city is recommending a 10-day unpaid suspension for 11 Police Department employees, seven Fire Department employees and two employees in the Sheriff's Department.

"The health and well being of city employees and the public we serve are top priorities during our emergency response to COVID-19," reads the letter which was obtained by the Chronicle. "Your failure to comply with the vaccination status reporting requirement endangers the health and safety of the city’s workforce and the public we serve."

The letters will arrive as San Francisco grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the delta variant, with the unvaccinated making up the overwhelming majority of those who are hospitalized or killed by the virus. The data shows that the vaccines are extremely safe and very effective at preventing severe COVID-19.

San Francisco was the first large city in the country to require all municipal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, unless they have a valid religious or medical exemption. All employees had to report their vaccination status to the city by Aug. 12, and those without valid exemptions must be inoculated 10 weeks after the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccines. The Department of Human Resources already gave employees a two-week extension to report their status. -SF Chronicle

According to the report, the city says that failure to get the jab could eventually lead to firings.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/san-francisco-prepares-suspend-cops-and-firefighters-who-refuse-disclose-vaccination

Ken Blackwell: Defeating Globalism Starts with Protecting Election Integrity at the Precinct Level

Protecting election integrity is essential to the preservation of American self-governance against the threat of globalism, Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Blackwell, former chairman of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board, discussed his most recent project as chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for Election Integrity. The initiative, among other things, will encourage concerned citizens to volunteer as poll workers to protect election integrity.

“We are encouraging [people] … to sign up for our grassroots efforts,” Blackwell remarked. “What we’re doing is telling people to do what you can, where you are, with what you have. And that means you start at the precinct level in your neighborhood, in your county.”

He continued, “Sign up to be a poll worker — not an observer — but a poll worker. That puts a set of eyes [and a] set of hands right there where elections are initiated and where they matter. Self-governance starts with involvement. … The human condition isn’t a spectator sport, so you can’t just sit on the sidelines. We are encouraging people to get involved on the front lines in their neighborhood.”

The Center for Election Integrity stated it “will work to amplify the importance of voter identification, require ballots to be returned by election day, stop the practice of ballot harvesting, ensure voter rolls are consistently cleaned and kept up to date, prohibit the privatization of elections, and litigate cases of voter fraud.”

Blackwell said election security is a prerequisite for addressing national challenges such as border insecurity and illegal migration, left-wing and partisan Democrat politicization of law enforcement, and racial agitation through Critical Race Theory.

“This is already taking place,” Blackwell said of conservative grassroots activism against an increasingly leftist government. “If you see the enormous energy and the pushback against Critical Race Theory — which is nothing more than the left’s state-sponsored racism — there are just individual citizens rallying and energizing their neighbors.”

He continued, “What we’re trying to do is to make sure that folks understand that whether it is open borders, whether it is the advancement of state-sponsored racism, or whether it’s crime wave that’s associated with this effort to ‘defund the police,’ all of this comes together as a leftist movement as a status movement that that demands that we push back. Because as Frederick Douglass said, those who are whipped easiest are whipped most often.”

Blackwell emphasized the importance of action and agency to affect positive political change.

He concluded, “[The left has] created a situation where every town is a border town with this open borders nonsense. Not only do they want a nation without borders — which is just part of a one-world government elitist notion — they, in fact, want voters without borders. So if you want to fight back against open borders crime waves [and] defund the police advocacy, it starts with making sure that you protect the security of the ballot box.”

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/08/20/ken-blackwell-defeating-globalism-starts-protecting-election-integrity/

T-Mobile Breach Hits 53 Million Customers as Probe Finds Wider Impact

T-Mobile US Inc said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total number of people affected to more than 53 million.

The third largest U.S. wireless carrier had earlier this week said that personal data of more than 40 million former and prospective customers was stolen along with data from 7.8 million existing T-Mobile wireless customers.

In its latest update, which comes days after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened an investigation into the breach, T-Mobile revealed it had identified 5.3 million additional wireless subscribers who were impacted by the breach as well as 667,000 more accounts of former customers.

The data includes addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers of customers, the company said, adding that it had no indication that the accessed data contained financial information such as credit card or other payment data.

Some T-Mobile customers sued the company for damages late Thursday night in Seattle federal court, saying in a proposed class action that the cyberattack violated their privacy and exposed them to a higher risk of fraud and identity theft.

The wireless carrier is the latest victim of cyberattacks on large corporations in the United States as hackers exploit weakened user system privacy and security due to work-from-home policies instituted since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2018, the company had informed about a potential security breach that could have affected about 3 percent of its 77 million customers.

“T-mobile has had 6 other data breaches in the past 4 years,” said Doug Schmidt, a professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University.

“It appears that their IT system is particularly vulnerable since they haven’t been able to rectify their known security issues during this time period, which should be concerning to customers.”

T-Mobile said in a regulatory filing on Friday that while the investigation was ongoing, it was confident that it had “closed off the access.”

https://www.ntd.com/t-mobile-breach-hits-53-million-customers-as-probe-finds-wider-impact_663996.html

Pick for conservator of Britney’s estate was once denied guardianship of own mom

Britney Spears’ legal team wants to replace Jamie Spears as the pop star’s conservator with a man who was once denied guardianship of his own mother, Page Six has exclusively learned.

According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Jason Rubin filed a petition in early 2020 to become a temporary guardian — and eventually, the permanent guardian — of his mother Ida Rubin, citing mental health issues.

The forensics accounting expert requested guardianship over both Ida’s estate and her person. A source confirmed to us that Jason’s mother has a trust that was also in dispute; the exact sums in the case were not disclosed.

Rubin alleged in court documents that “Ida suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and that her mental health was declining.”

However, both Ida and Jason’s brother, Mark Rubin, objected to the request. Ida told the courts she was “competent enough to handle [her] own medical and financial affairs.”

To back up his claims, Jason provided call logs from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department — as well as incident reports from the security team at Ida’s residence — that allegedly show she asked officers to perform “nonsensical acts.”

He also provided a physician’s certificate prepared by Dr. Gregory P. Brown, who wrote that the events he reviewed “strongly suggest the presence of psychosis [a substantial break in the perception of consensual reality],” according to court documents.

He stated in the records that Ida’s “delusional beliefs … placed her at risk of harm [either

to self or others].”

But after more than a year of litigation, a judge dismissed Jason’s petition based on Brown’s certificate.

According to records, the court found that Dr. Brown never conducted an in-person evaluation of Ida and only made his medical assumptions based on the LVMPD’s call logs and email correspondence with Ida’s security team.

“Further, although Dr. Brown expressed concern that Ida’s mental illness may cause her to be a danger to herself or others, he provided no facts and the record does not support that Ida’s safety is in jeopardy,” the court papers said.

“In fact, the police call logs state that Ida is ‘ok but delusional’ and that she is ‘able to

care for [her] self and [that her] house was clean.'”

The district court ruled that Jason could “refile the petition if he was able to obtain a physician’s certificate.”

The court ultimately decided that Ida has “suffered from mental illness for some time,” but “remains capable of caring for herself and handling her day-to-day activities.”

We’re told at one point, Jason filed an appeal at the Nevada Supreme Court, but the district court’s rulings were upheld.

Mark’s attorney, Jason Aivaz, confirmed to us that the case was dismissed “without prejudice,” and that Jason could re-file should he obtain a new, “valid” physician’s certificate.

Aivaz also noted that because his client, Mark, is the “nominated agent under Ida’s power” of attorney, should Ida ever be deemed incapacitated by a court or a doctor, his client is “ideally, at least [in] Ida’s preference, to step in and take her place” — not Jason. The attorney adds that it was always Mark’s belief that guardianship is “not necessary.”

Britney’s legal team requested in July that Jason be named conservator of the “Toxic” singer’s multimillion-dollar estate, which court documents listed as containing $2.7 million in liquid assets along with $56.3 million in investments and real estate.

According to Newsweek, Jason’s appointment would give him “the power and authorization to pursue opportunities related to professional commitments and activities including but not limited to performing, recording, videos, tours, TV shows, and other similar activities as long as they are approved by the conservator of the person [and] the conservatee’s medical team.”

Spears' attorney Mathew Rosengart called the conservatorship a “kafkaesque nightmare” for the singer.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/20/pick-for-britney-spears-conservatorship-denied-guardianship-of-own-mom/

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