Anonymous ID: 45d202 Jan. 21, 2022, 4:19 p.m. No.15432350   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2556 >>2696 >>3009

WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction on Friday barring the federal government from enforcing President Joe Biden’s requirement that federal workers without qualifying medical or religious exemptions be vaccinated for COVID-19.

 

Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed to the District Court for the Southern District of Texas by then-President Donald Trump, ruled that opponents of Biden’s vaccination mandate for federal employees were likely to succeed at trial and blocked the government from enforcing the requirement.

 

Biden announced in September that more than 3.5 million federal workers were required to undergo vaccination, with no option to get regularly tested instead, unless they secured approved medical or religious exemptions. The requirement kicked in this past November, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that 98% of federal workers are vaccinated.

 

“We are confident in our legal authority here,” she added.

 

Those out of compliance with the policy were referred to counseling and could be terminated under an executive order signed by Biden.

 

Brown wrote that at issue was whether the president “can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment.” He added, “That, under the current state of the law as just recently expressed by the Supreme Court, is a bridge too far.”

 

The Justice Department said it would appeal the ruling.

 

The suit was brought by the group Feds for Medical Freedom.

 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-federal-worker-vaccine-mandate-20220121-nqao6wuc6jcm5fckwtsfabuzya-story.html

Anonymous ID: 45d202 Jan. 21, 2022, 4:23 p.m. No.15432381   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2382 >>2392 >>2436 >>2696 >>3009

The US has offered to hold a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin as a last-ditch effort to stop the slide to a new war in Europe, as Russia continued to build up its forces along the Ukraine border and announced new naval exercises in the Black Sea.

 

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Washington and its allies were also ready to respond in writing next week to Russian demands on the future of Nato and European security, which Moscow has said must be addressed to avoid it taking “military measures”. But, speaking in Geneva where he held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Blinken repeated the US and Nato position there could still be no compromise on the central issue of the right of Ukraine and other countries to join Nato in the future.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/russia-and-us-to-meet-in-geneva-as-ukraine-war-fears-grow

Anonymous ID: 45d202 Jan. 21, 2022, 5:09 p.m. No.15432733   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2781 >>2840 >>2898

Is Monkeys Comms??

Article May 2020

 

A group of monkeys in India swiped blood samples from coronavirus patients from a local medical college, stoking fears they could further the virus' spread in nearby regions, Reuters reported on Friday. Before they fled the scene, the monkeys attacked a health worker, according to authorities cited by the outlet.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeys-snatch-covid-19-coronavirus-blood-samples-lab-india/

Anonymous ID: 45d202 Jan. 21, 2022, 5:23 p.m. No.15432817   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2874 >>2888 >>2892

DANVILLE, Pa. — According to State Police, a truck carrying about 100 monkeys collided with a dump truck along Route 54 just off Interstate 80 near Danville.

 

The crash happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon.

 

Troopers confirm for us that four of those monkeys got free.

 

They are now believed to be on the loose somewhere in the Danville area.

 

State police and the PA State Game Commission are actively searching for the primates, even using a helicopter to assist in the search.

 

Route 54 has reopened after the crash near Danville.

 

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeys-snatch-covid-19-coronavirus-blood-samples-lab-india/