Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

If you smell something strange during your next subway ride, don’t panic, it’s not a terror attack – it’s just the Feds testing out a new strategy for averting chemical and biological attacks on the country’s largest public transportation system.

According to NBC 4 New York, the MTA, working in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and a team of researchers and city agencies, will deploy a non-toxic gas at 120 places across the city. The tests will be carried out on five days between Oct. 18 and Oct. 29. Continue reading “Feds Deploy Non-Toxic Gas On Subway In Test Of Biological Attack Preparedness”

CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) – Getting a prison under control requires the kind of training that correction officers say National Guard personnel do not have.

Kevin Flanagan, the legislative liaison for the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union tells WBZ-TV’s I-Team, “with all due respect to the men and women of the National Guard, we have highly trained correction officers who have worked throughout the pandemic for 18 months and to now say 50 percent would be terminated it’s not right, it’s not fair.” Continue reading “Correction Officers Union Says Half Of Members Can’t Prove Vaccination Before Mandate Deadline”

Epoch Times – by Isabel van Brugen

The head of the Chicago police officers union on Tuesday called on its members to refuse to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which is set to take effect on Friday.

“Do not fill out the portal information,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a video to officers posted on YouTube. “I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody—let alone that information about your medical history.” Continue reading “Chicago Police Union Head Calls on Members to Defy Vaccine Mandate”

Yahoo News

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, appealing to the governor and the Legislature’s leaders for help.

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners said law enforcement officers and county and state regulators and code enforcers are overwhelmed and warned of an “imminent threat to the public health and safety of our citizens from the illegal production of cannabis in our county.” Continue reading “Overwhelmed by illegal pot, Oregon county declares emergency”

US Energy Information Administration – Winter Fuels Outlook, October 2021

As we head into the winter of 2021–22, retail prices for energy are at or near multiyear highs in the United States. The high prices follow changes to energy supply and demand patterns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We expect that households across the United States will spend more on energy this winter compared with the past several winters because of these higher energy prices and because we assume a slightly colder winter than last year in much of the United States.  Continue reading “Energy costs skyrocketing”

CBS News

Walgreens said it will close five more stores in San Francisco next month because of organized retail theft in another blow to a city that has earned an embarrassing reputation for widespread shoplifting.

The stores will close next month, SFGATE reported. It said Walgreens has closed at least 10 stores in the city since 2019. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average” despite large increases in security, Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said. Continue reading “Walgreens closes five more stores in San Francisco due to thefts”

America’s Frontline Doctors

Austrian Parliament Member Eva María Holzleitner (Social Democratic Party of Austria) today collapsed in the midst of a speech in Parliament.

Holzleitner is a COVID-19 vaccine pusher; her Instagram account admonishes followers to “Trust in the results and tests of science: The skepticism about becoming sterile through the corona vaccination is unfounded! We are vaccinated!” Continue reading “Vaccine-pushing Austrian MP collapses in Parliament”

Business Insider – by Chad Fisher

Have you heard the term dead peasant life insurance? It refers to a life insurance policy an employer holds on an employee.

The employer is listed as the beneficiary and collects a death benefit if the employee dies. Continue reading “Does Your Company Have A ‘Dead Peasant’ Life Insurance Policy Out On You?”

Patch – by Justin Heinze

PENNSYLVANIA — Officials in Pennsylvania and around the nation are making preparations to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to children, once final approval is granted at the federal level.

A week ago, Pfizer formally submitted their request to the FDA for emergency use authorization for the vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. The FDA is scheduled to discuss Pfizer’s data at a meeting on Oct. 26, and a shot for kids could be approved as soon as Halloween or early November. Continue reading “PA Preparing To Distribute COVID Vaccine For Children”

Forbes – by Ashlea Ebeling

The Social Security Administration announced key numbers today that affect workers and retirees—a substantial increase in the taxable wage base for workers and the biggest increase in benefits for retirees in decades.

First the wage base news. The maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security tax will rise 2.9% to $147,000, from $142,800 in 2021. That means a bigger tax bill for about 12 million high-earning workers. The increase in the wage base reflects any real wage growth. The maximum Social Security tax per worker will be $18,228—or a maximum $9,114 withheld from a highly paid employee’s 2022 paycheck. Workers and their employers each pay a 6.2% Social Security tax; the self-employed pay both sides of the tax. (The benefits boost is based on the Consumer Price Index, and a different index measuring wage growth determines annual increases in the wage base.) Continue reading “Maximum Social Security Taxes Will Increase 2.9%, While Benefits Will Rise 5.9% In 2022”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Last month, despite claiming he wouldn’t issue one, President Joe Biden announced a vaccine mandate for all companies in the United States with more than 100 employees. If these companies refuse to comply, they could face massive fines, upwards of $700,000. Not wanting to go out of business from massive fines, companies across the country — under state coercion — have issued an ultimatum to their employees, take the jab or kick rocks.

As many folks don’t want or need a vaccine due to already having COVID-19, or are opposed to it for religious reasons, Biden’s mandate is causing a storm of worker shortages, affecting all industries. Millions of people are quitting or being fired from their jobs over the mandate, adding fuel to the already massive dumpster fire that is the US economy. Continue reading “Nat’l Guard — Who Have Until 2022 to Be Vaccinated — To Replace Unvaxxed Health Care Workers, Law Enforcement”

CNBC

Workers left their jobs at a record pace in August, with bar and restaurant employees as well as retail staff quitting in droves, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Quits hit a new series high going back to December 2000, as 4.3 million workers left their jobs. The quits rate rose to 2.9%, an increase of 242,000 from the previous month, which saw a rate of 2.7%, according to the department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The rate, which is measured against total employment, is the highest in a data series that goes back to December 2000.  Continue reading “A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries”

The Drive – by Joseph Trevithick

Ghost Robotics and SWORD International have teamed up to create a rifle-toting “robot dog.” Called the Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle, or SPUR, the system adds a 6.5mm Creedmoor rifle from SWORD to one of Ghost Robotics’ quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles, or Q-UGVs.

The SPUR made its debut on the show floor at the Association of the U.S. Army’s main annual convention in Washington, D.C., which opened yesterday. Though Ghost Robotics is partnered with a number of other companies to explore defense and security applications, among others, for its Q-UGVs — which you can read more about in this past War Zone feature — this appears to be the first example of one of these unmanned systems with an actual weapon mounted on it. Unarmed examples of the Q-UGV are notably already in limited use with the U.S. Air Force’s 325th Security Forces Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and are being tested by other units within that service.  Continue reading “Robot Dogs Now Have Assault Rifles Mounted On Their Backs”

AP

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker activated up to 450 members of the Massachusetts National Guard on Tuesday to help deal with COVID-19 challenges.

Up to 200 guard members will aid in COVID-19 testing in schools throughout the state, and as many as 250 members will be available to offset potential staff shortages at the state Department of Correction due to a vaccine mandate. Continue reading “Massachusetts National Guard to Aid COVID-19 School Testing”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

President Joe Biden’s border security chief is promising to end the workplace enforcement of migration laws and to help illegal migrants get higher wages from their U.S. employers.

Alejandro Mayorkas, the Cuban-born refugee and pro-migration zealot who now runs the Department of Homeland Security, portrays his “Worksite Enforcement Strategy” as a benefit for both illegals and Americans. He wrote:  Continue reading “DHS Mayorkas to Help Illegals Get Jobs, Higher Wages”

Daily Mail

The Treasury Secretary has defended plans to monitor bank transactions of more than $600, insisting that the scheme was designed to end ‘tax fraud’ by billionaires, and would not mean Americans’ accounts were recorded.

Janet Yellen last month caused alarm with her scheme to note any transaction above $600. Continue reading “‘This has been seriously mischaracterized’: Janet Yellen defends plan for IRS to snoop on accounts”

Technocracy News

The United Nations is targeting used cars in transition to Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy. Used cars are deemed to be ‘unsustainable’ and a rising threat to the transition to alternative energy, even though the Third World depends almost exclusively on used vehicles for mobility.Meanwhile in Great Britain, electric car owners are not allowed to charge their batteries during the day due to the energy shortage.  ⁃ TN Editor

Continue reading “UNEP: Used Cars To Be ‘Rapidly Phased Out’ During Transition To Electric”

RT

Filipino ninja doctors may soon be sneaking into the homes of Covid-19 vaccine refuseniks to inject them in their sleep. At least that’s the idea proposed by the country’s trigger-happy president.

The unorthodox approach to boosting vaccination rates was touted by Rodrigo Duterte during his latest ‘Talk to the People’ address on Monday. “I know many people are still hesitant,” the president said, as quoted by local media.  Continue reading “‘Jab ‘em in their sleep’: Philippines’ Duterte proposes new way of tackling vaccine hesitancy”

New York Post – by Mark Moore

More than a $100 million worth of taxpayer-paid border wall materials have been discarded and are going to waste in Texas after President Biden ended construction of the barrier when he entered the White House in January and canceled contracts for its construction, according to a report.

A Fox News drone captured footage of around 10,000 steel panels — enough to build 100 miles of wall — rusting in the sun in Pharr, Texas, since January.  Continue reading “$100 million in border wall materials rusting away in Texas: report”

Down the Chupacabra Hole

Unvaccinated members of society are being ostracized throughout the world. They have been evicted by landlords, dropped by doctors, banned from hospitals, and fired from jobs. Upstanding military personnel receive court-martial summons. Doting parents lose custody of their children for simply declining an experimental gene therapy infusion. Anyone who dares to ask questions is labeled a conspiracy theorist and sharing an unfavorable personal account is deemed anti-science. Yet mounting evidence is proving these “safe and effective” shots are not what the so-called experts claim. Here’s a look at five physical changes developing in the vaccinated.   Continue reading “5 Ways COVID Vaccines Alter Human Beings Physically”