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November 1, 2021
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Cut to the News will not publish tomorrow, November 2, as I will be serving as an election officer here in Virginia (5 AM to 9 PM). This is my first election officer gig. Very excited! Go Virginia! Stand for Freedom in America.
Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Turn Into Religious Tests at General Electric, Amtrak, Disney . . . Companies ask employees seeking exemptions to explain how they apply their beliefs in other aspects of their lives. Employers say they are trying to meet federal requirements and protect their workers by getting them inoculated. Companies are weighing factors such as privacy issues and religious beliefs as they try to identify
workers who are attempting to avoid the vaccine for other reasons. Some feel the protocols were designed to discourage employees from seeking a religious exemption.
Below are examples of questions employers ask on detailed questionnaires, some of which are 31-questions long:
-- how long have you had your religious beliefs;
-- do you have any tattoos or body piercings;
-- do you eat foods that contain preservatives or chemicals;
-- do you take common medications, such as Tylenol, Tums, or Motrin, which reportedly used fetal cell lines during research, testing and development;
-- “Is your request based on a belief that vaccines violate religious teachings that say ‘the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit’ or is your religious belief based on faith healing?” Wall Street Journal
This is perhaps the scariest article I've read recently. Remember this year, my fellow Americans -- 2021 is the year when America stepped firmly on the path of totalitarianism. 32 years after, upon my Mom's guidance and dream, I fled the totalitarian socialist USSR and came to America, the land of freedom, liberty, and justice.
If this recent step doesn't wake up Americans to US government's atrocious Soviet tactics and ambitions to establish total government control in America, the way that the Soviet Politburo did, I don't know what will.
Biden appears to use prepared list of reporters after G20 summit in Rome: 'I'm told we should start with AP' . . . President Joe Biden once again appeared to call on a pre-approved list of reporters after meeting with the press following the G20 summit in Rome.
On Sunday, Biden discussed meeting with other world leaders in Rome to enact climate change initiatives. After his talk, he opened the floor to questions but admitted that he was told to start with the Associated Press. "And now I’m happy to take some questions. And I’m told I should start with AP, Zeke Miller," Biden said. Fox news
Shocking.
'A real lag': Dems fret over Black votes in Virginia . . . A fierce battle for Black votes is waged in the final days of the tight governor’s race. In interviews with POLITICO, more than a dozen top Democrats involved in the Virginia campaign — from strategists on the ground to House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) — expressed concern that Black support for McAuliffe is weaker and less enthusiastic than it could be in a razor-thin
race in a blue-trending state. Against that backdrop, McAuliffe and Black Democratic surrogates are racing across Virginia before Tuesday’s election to drive up Black turnout and support. Politico
Newt Gingrich: Youngkin Will Win Virginia Election Because ‘He Is Talking About Real Life’ . . . Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that Republican Glenn Youngkin will win Virginia’s governor election because he talks about “real life” while opponent Terry McAuliffe is “lost in a world of fantasy.” “Well, if Youngkin wins, which I think he will, [it’s because he’s] “talking about real life. He’s talking about jobs,
he’s talking about children, he’s talking about safety, he’s talking about schools,” Gingrich told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “McAuliffe’s commercials are very political. Glenn Youngkin’s talking about real life … and I think it partially explains why McAuliffe is losing,” Gingrich continued. “He’s lost in a world of fantasy that really matters to the left-wing Democrats but really doesn’t matter to the average Virginian.” New York Post
Youngkin accuses McAuliffe campaign of staging White supremacist actors at event . . . Republican Glenn Youngkin accused his political rival of sending people with tiki torches to his campaign event Friday in Charlottesville, mirroring the violent 2017 protest that took place there. ‘Mr. Youngkin, who is in a neck-and-neck race for governor with Democrat Terry McAuliffe, blamed the spectacle
on his opponent’s no-holds-barred quest for victory. “I think they work for Terry McAuliffe, and I’m sure he sent them,” Mr. Youngkin told reporters. “They’ll do anything to win, and he’s doing anything to win, and so he’s paying people to show up and act silly at our rallies.” Washington Times
Supreme Court to hear clashes over abortion, gun rights this week . . . The Supreme Court will be the scene of high drama in the coming days when the justices hear arguments over abortion and gun rights in what could be a defining week of a blockbuster court term. The pair of high-stakes oral arguments on divisive matters of intense public interest may provide a glimpse into the 6-3 conservative court’s willingness to reshape American
life.
“No issues in our society are more controversial or more reflective of our political divide than abortion and guns,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “Both are before the court the week of November 1 and will give us a clear sense of what it means to have a court with six conservative justices.” The Hill
White House unveils strategy for 2050 net-zero goal . . . The U.S. early Monday unveiled its strategy for achieving “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — under which the country would try to eliminate or offset all of its climate pollution. Biden repeatedly expressed a desire to put the country on track for net-zero by 2050 on the campaign trail and since taking office. The new report lays out a more specific policy pathway for
getting there. “Our investments and policies will supercharge our economy, they'll strengthen the fabric of our society, and improve quality of life,” National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters on Sunday. The Hill
Stunning survey gives grim view of flourishing anti-democratic opinions . . . Those who buy into former President Trump’s lies over the 2020 election and those who watch the far-right channels that amplify his rhetoric are increasingly embracing anti-democratic opinions and even contemplating political violence, according to a new poll. The poll from the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute paints a troubling portrait of a
growing segment of the public that is increasingly unmoored from reality as it embraces conspiracy theories about child abduction and stolen elections. It found a deep divide between those who trust right-wing media outlets and the rest of the nation — and even a divide between those who trust Fox News and those who trust outlets like One America Network and Newsmax.
The poll found about three in ten Americans, 31 percent, believe the 2020 elections were stolen from Trump, including two-thirds of Republicans and a whopping 82 percent of those who trust Fox News more than any other media outlet. Among those who trust far-right outlets like One America Network and Newsmax, 97 percent say they believe the election — which even Trump’s own cybersecurity and election security officials agreed was the safest and most secure ever conducted in the United
States — was stolen. The Hill
Note the tone of this piece, which demonizes people with an alternative point of view, who prefer OAN and Newsmax to Fox. There's absolutely no effort to examine why some people believe what they believe but instead to discredit them as lunatics.
Press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for COVID-19 . . . White House press secretary Jen Psaki has tested positive for COVID-19 after several family members at her home were infected earlier in the week, causing her to miss President Biden’s trip to Europe, she announced on Sunday. In a statement on Twitter, Psaki revealed that she made the decision to forgo Biden’s foreign trip on Wednesday after she learned members of her household
had contracted the virus. She quarantined and tested negative via PCR test on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but tested positive for the virus on Sunday. New York Post
I have nothing nice to say about this lady. So, I will not say anything.
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Biden scrambles to stop Iran’s ‘increasingly dangerous’ nuclear program . . . Top Biden administration officials warned Sunday that Iran’s nuclear program is “starting to be a problem” and that the U.S. and its allies have limited time to strike a deal with Tehran before it stockpiles enough material for a nuclear bomb.
Speaking Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the administration is hopeful that all sides can come back into compliance with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a pact that limited Iran’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. President Biden confirmed Saturday that talks with Iran, which have been on hold since Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi came to power in June, will soon resume. Officials
acknowledge they have little time to spare. Mr. Blinken’s stark warning underscores the high stakes facing the West as the theocratic regime in Tehran disregards warnings from Washington and races toward status as a nuclear power. Washington Times
Defense Companies Brace For Workforce Loss Due To Vaccine Mandate . . . With little more than a month left to meet the Biden administration’s Dec. 8 coronavirus vaccination mandate, defense contractors are bracing for the loss of a portion of its workforce. Some of America’s top defense firms, like Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, are already taking steps to fend off a disruption of work that could impact their bottom line, top executives
said this week. “We are proactively increasing our hiring now, in anticipation that we may have some loss of workers,” Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden told investors during an Oct. 28 earnings call. “And we are ensuring that we have training and skill building programs in place, so as we bring those new employees into the workplace, they can get productive and efficient as quickly as possible.” Breaking Defense
Incompetence and politicization of intelligence have been plaguing our lumbering government bureaucracy already. Now that defenses contractors start hemorrhaging expertise, due to vax mandates, America's security will erode even further.
Having being blindsided by the Chinese, who had engineered the deadly COVID-19 virus and developed hypersonic weapons, our intelligence "experts" have placed our country at risk. Their inability to prevent or at least mitigate Russia's 20+ year onslaught on our systems with cyber attacks, including recently on our food and gasoline reserves, exposes the ultimate incompetence, if not negligence, of the Washington Establishment to the national security
mission.
Massive Israel drills launched to simulate major war offensive by Iran and proxies . . . Israeli’s military and civilian authorities launched a large-scale war drill on Sunday, Oct. 31 to prepare for a pro-Iranian precision rocket blitz from Lebanon targeting civilians and infrastructure. The drill ending on Thursday covers multiple threats requiring evacuations of complete frontline communities, dispersing local Arab disturbances in mixed
cities, cyber war and disruptions of basic amenities – or even chemical warfare. The Air Force is meanwhile practicing operations for hitting 3,000 Hizballah targets across Lebanon in a single day in response to direct Iranian or Iran-supported missile attacks by Hizballah and imported Iraqi-Shiite militias. Estimates cite a potential 4,000 rockets a day, some of them ballistic and outfitted with high precision kits. Intelligence sources report that the 30,000-strong Iraqi Kata’ib
Hezbollah has been assigned to send troops in Lebanon and they are in advanced training. DEBKAfile
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Rivals on World Stage, Russia and U.S. Quietly Seek Areas of Accord . . . Russia and the United States, two old adversaries seeking to undercut each other around the world. Russian nuclear-capable missiles have been spotted on the move near Ukraine, and the Kremlin has signaled the possibility of a new intervention there. It has tested hypersonic cruise missiles that skirt American defenses and cut all ties with the
American-led NATO alliance. After a summer pause, ransomware attacks emanating from Russian territory have resumed, and in late October, Microsoft revealed a new Russian cybersurveillance campaign. The United States has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russia, continued to arm and train Ukraine’s military and threatened retaliatory cyberattacks against Russian targets. The American Embassy in Moscow has virtually stopped issuing visas. As world leaders met at the Group of 20
summit this weekend in Rome, Mr. Biden did not even get the chance to hash things out with his Russian counterpart face to face because President Vladimir V. Putin, citing coronavirus concerns, attended the event remotely. New York Times
Free advice to Biden's (Obama 2.0) "experts":
Well, it's not completely free, $28.99. But it beats the price of the Afghan war fiasco -- $2.2 trillion.
Ukraine gas chief urges Europe to resist Russia pressure on Nord Stream 2 . . . Europe risks giving in to Russia if Germany approves the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a condition for more gas supplies from Moscow, the head of Ukraine’s state energy company has said. Yuriy Vitrenko, chief executive of Naftogaz, said in an interview with the Financial Times that Russian president Vladimir Putin was using gas as a “geopolitical weapon” by
insisting any extra supplies go via the $10bn pipeline, which bypasses Ukraine to supply Germany directly via the Baltic Sea. “If anyone has any doubts about it, then Putin is telling everyone to their face: ‘You allow NS2 to become operational or you won’t get any more gas’,” Vitrenko said. Financial Times
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Trump aide Peter Navarro exposes the dangerous Dr. Fauci . . . By Miranda Devine. Anthony Fauci is in for a shellacking Tuesday when a bombshell new book by former Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro lands. “In Trump Time, A Journal of America’s Plague Year,” is a rollicking personal diary studded with insider confidences, and it sets its sights squarely on the chief medical adviser to the president. Navarro
writes that Fauci did “more damage to this nation, President Trump and the world than anyone else this side of the Bat Lady of Wuhan.” He holds Fauci accountable for “everything from the Wuhan lab gain-of-function catastrophe and suppression of low-cost therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to the political, partisan and deadly delay in delivering the Trump vaccines to the American people.” Fauci’s sins included not telling Trump or the coronavirus task force that he
knew the Wuhan lab was conducting risky gain-of- function research on bat coronaviruses, nor that he had helped fund it. New York Post
Vax Mandates Imperil New York City . . . Mayor Bill de Blasio has made the same grave error as Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot by forcing a vaccine mandate on city workers. This includes fire departments, police departments, and other emergency services like EMS. This is especially bad new for the New York City Fire Department, which stands to lose a little over one-third of its overall man power and 20% of its fire companies. The loss of these
firefighters would significantly increase the amount of time it takes to respond to a fire. That’s the difference between only a room burning versus an entire house. It’s a life and death calculation. Patriot Post
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's inflation U-turn . . . Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s inflation view took another turn earlier this month when she suggested inflation is not going away anytime soon. Inflation is currently running at 3.6% annually, according to the core personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure. The reading has held at a 30-year high for four
consecutive months. The Federal Reserve typically targets 2% inflation when setting economic policy. "Supply bottlenecks have developed that have caused inflation," Yellen, who served as Fed chair under former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, told CNBC on Oct. 5. "I believe that they’re transitory, but that doesn’t mean they’ll go away over the next several months."
That represented a sharp U-turn from Yellen’s previous comments on inflation. In June, Yellen said inflation could hit 3%, but that pricing pressures would be "transitory." Fox Business
Thousands of New York City Workers to Lose Pay as Vaccine Mandate Starts Monday . . . Thousands of New York City firefighters, police officers and other municipal employees stand to lose their paychecks starting Monday for failing to comply with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The mayor’s office said around 22,800 employees remain unvaccinated and are subject to Monday’s mandate. Just over 90% of the city’s workforce
has gotten at least one shot, with thousands getting their first dose Friday and over the weekend, according to city officials. Among personnel subject to Monday’s mandate, including police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers, the first-dose vaccination rate stood at 86% as of Sunday, the most recently available figure. That was up from 71% on Oct. 19, before the mayor announced his order. Wall Street Journal
Wealthy Americans look to escape Biden's tax hikes . . . Wealthy investors are increasingly concerned about the possibility of impending tax increases as congressional Democrats barrel ahead with a plan to substantially raise rates on well-off corporations and rich Americans. President Biden on Thursday unveiled a revised framework for a roughly $1.75 trillion ($1,750,000,000,000) spending package, which would be paid for by a slew of new
taxes, including a 15% corporate minimum tax, a new surcharge on 0.002% of Americans, stricter IRS tax enforcement, taxes on corporate stock buybacks and higher taxes on U.S. companies' foreign earnings. Fox Business
Funny how apparatchiks always think that people are stupid and will just roll over no matter how much theft -- excuse me, wealth redistribution -- the government subjects them to.
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Most American Parents Unaware China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar are Major Donors to US Universities . . . A majority of American parents are unaware that China, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are among the top financiers of U.S. universities and are worried that foreign cash is influencing what their children are taught in the classroom, according to a recent poll. Nearly 60 percent of those interviewed in the September poll said they were not aware
that the countries are major donors to U.S. universities. The poll was commissioned by the Lawfare Project, a nonprofit advocacy group that tracks campus issues. Qatar’s presence in the U.S. academic system was concerning to parents when they learned about the small Gulf nation’s deep ties to Iran and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and the Taliban. Eighty-four percent of those surveyed said American schools should publicly disclose their ties to Qatar and explain how the money
could be coloring the in-class agenda, according to the poll, which surveyed 2,009 adults last month and was provided exclusively to the Washington Free Beacon
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Tiger’s pumpkin snatch fail tickles the internet: 'Run pumpkin run' . . . Zoo guest Michelle Wolfe stopped by the zoo’s Tiger Crossroads exhibit in October 2019, where she got to see a Sumatran tiger’s attempt at carrying a jack-o'-lantern. The tiger in question – Frances – can be seen in a video sniffing the carved pumpkin before she tries to carry it off by its stem. Unlucky for her, only the carved-off top goes with her while the
smiling pumpkin remains still on a stone perch.
Sumatran tigers are native to Indonesia and are considered critically endangered, according to World Wildlife Fund for Nature. The Nashville Zoo reports that this tiger subspecies can live up to 20 years and can grow up 300 pounds and 8 feet long. Sumatran tigers can run at a top speed of 40 mph (in short bursts). The big cat is also said to "enjoy the smell of sweet things such as cinnamon and perfume which are used for enrichment," the zoo’s website says. Fox News
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