Each November, the call goes out around the globe for Christians to come together and pray for the persecuted church. Organizers of this year’s International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians say intercession is needed now more than ever as hundreds of millions of believers are experiencing attacks on an extreme level.
“Over 340 million Christians are persecuted or oppressed because of their faith in Jesus,” David Curry, CEO of Open Doors USA, told CBN News’ The Prayerlink. “Now some of those places like North Korea are exceptionally difficult if you’re caught with a Bible or whatever. You may spend the rest of our life in prison or even lose your life.”
Curry said due to the recent U.S. military withdrawal, Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places to be a Christian.
“That country is now controlled by the Taliban,” Curry explained. “And the Taliban has morphed. It’s Taliban 2.0. It has ISIS members and other kinds of extremists latching on too. So, we need to pray for people in Afghanistan who are followers of Jesus. It’s a secret church.”
Open Doors USA recently produced a documentary series on the persecuted church called “Unshakeable Faith,” including true stories of hope in the face of desperation.
“We go into these places to stand with persecuted believers,” said Curry. “We have teams all over the world. And our job is to advocate for the persecuted, to help them, get them resources. We don’t just airlift it in. We’re going to deliver things to them, and prayer stand with them.”
The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is also encouraging churches to join in the special day of prayer. Author and radio host Todd Nettleton recently told CBN News’ Gary Lane how Christians should pray for the persecuted church.
“I think it’s easy to pray for it to stop,” said Nettleton. “But that’s not their prayer. Their prayer is Lord help us to be faithful in spite of the suffering. In spite of the persecution. So, I think that’s an important thing for us to pray with them that God would encourage them and allow them to remain faithful.”
Nov. 8, VOM is set to premiere the film “Sabina: Tortured for Christ, The Nazi Years.” It details the powerful true story of how the organization’s founders, Richard and Sabina Wumbrandt, became followers of Christ and then experienced extreme suffering because of their faith and the forgiveness they displayed.
“It is one of the most amazing displays of the gospel and we still see this today in hostile and restricted nations where our persecuted brothers and sisters are able to forgive their persecutors,” said Nettleton. “They’re able to love their persecutors. It’s such a display, a proof of the reality of the gospel that we often see persecutors impacted and even see come to follow Christ through that testimony and that example.”
Meanwhile, Curry pointed out a special benefit felt by those who pray for these persecuted brothers and sisters.
“I think that the way God refreshes our heart, it doesn’t just burden us with a problem but it allows us to participate in the answer,” said Curry. “It’s a spiritual battle.”
The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians is set for Sunday, November 7.
The film Sabina: Tortured for Christ is in select theaters November 8. Click here to find out where it’s playing.
(Rumble) Attorney John Howard, along with Attorney George Wentz of the Davillier Law Group, with the support of America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) filed a Preliminary Injunction (PI) to prevent Kaiser Permanente from implementing its mandatory vaccine mandate for all employees. The filing follows on the heels of the October 7, 2021 Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Reuters estimates the mandate will affect around 84 million employees from around 1.9 million private businesses.
The Biden administration has announced its COVID jab mandate for workers, threating fines of up to $136,532 for repeated non-compliance.
Today the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released details of its “Emergency Temporary Standard” for COVID-19 vaccination and testing, officially requiring businesses of 100 employees or more to force workers to take the abortion-tainted jab before January 4, 2022, or face crippling fines.
Following an announcement from President Joe Biden in September in which he outlined the government’s plan to require companies with more than 100 staff to mandate inoculation against the novel coronavirus for their workforce, OSHA has confirmed that affected employers “must develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.”
The policy must reflect the agency’s criteria for “full vaccination,” which is to have received at least two shots of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA jabs or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson jab.
OSHA detailed a provision for employers to allow unvaccinated staff to remain in work, forcing such individuals to “undergo regular COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at work,” according to a press statement.
The mandate will affect around 84 million employees from around 1.9 million private businesses, according to a Reuters report.
In addition, the Biden administration has a separate vaccine requirement for federal contractors and government employees, which will also be enforced on January 4, as well as a mandate for Medicare and Medicaid healthcare workers to receive the shots by the same date. In all, over 100 million people (two-thirds of the American workforce) will be impacted by the order.
As well as implementing a strict COVID “vaccine” policy, OSHA’s emergency standard requires affected employers to ascertain the COVID jab status of every employee and to “obtain acceptable proof” of it, developing and maintaining a “roster of each employee’s vaccination status.”
Employers must also report “work-related COVID-19 fatalities” and hospitalizations directly to OSHA.
The standard comes into effect this Friday, at which point it will be published in the Federal Register. OSHA has included a 60-day window for employers to comply with the measures, making January 4, 2022, the effective deadline.
After this date, employers who fail to comply with the dictate will face fines of up to $13,653 per employee violation. The obligation to police the new order rests on the shoulders of employers, and OSHA has said it will conduct inspections in order to confirm compliance rather than relying on self-reporting.
Employers will have the right to request OSHA inspectors obtain a warrant before allowing them access to their property.
So-called “repeat offenders” deemed to be “wilfully noncompliant” will be subject to an upper limit fine of $136,532.
According to OSHA, the impetus behind the requirement is that “[t]he nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them.”
An OSHA official said that the agency “estimates that this rule will save thousands of lives and prevent over 250,000 hospitalizations during the six months after implementation,” but provided no supporting evidence for the claim.
Meanwhile the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) continues to rack up injury and death reports following reception of the COVID-19 shots.
Between December 14, 2020, and October 22, 2021, a total of 837,595 injury reports have been registered on the VAERS database following COVID inoculation. Of this number, 17,619 reports are of deaths in the weeks and months after taking a COVID jab.
While causation is not explicitly confirmed through the VAERS reporting system, neither can it be presumed that all side effects are reported. Indeed, one study in 2010 found that “fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries” are reported to VAERS, suggesting the actual numbers of deathsandinjuries are significantly higher.
Legal challenges to the mandate have been expected, with conservative news outlet The Daily Wire among the first to announce that it is suing the federal government over its vaccination order.
Company CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a statement that “The Daily Wire will not comply with President Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate, and we are suing the Biden Administration to put a stop to their gross overreach.”
“President Biden, the federal government, social media, and the establishment media have conspired to rob Americans of their freedoms in the name of public health. They have broken faith with the American people through conflicting messaging, false information, and by suppressing data and perspectives with which they disagree.”
Harmeet K. Dhillon of Dhillon Law Group, one of the legal teams suing on behalf of The Daily Wire, said that the federal government has neither the authority “to compel private employers to play the role of vaccine or COVID police,” nor “the police power to force private employees to undergo medical treatment.”
“The Biden administration’s attempt to impose this unprecedented and unlawful federal medical mandate on the U.S. workforce without considering the public’s views is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the evidence, and would produce a wilfully ignorant rule,” Dhillon stated.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) filed a lawsuit against the federal government on October 28 over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
On the menu today: The public remarks of President Biden get covered by the national news media, but they tend to come and go with minimal impact, in large part because the president just blurts out whatever sounds good in his head, regardless of its accuracy, and he frequently contradicts himself. Do polls matter? Is the U.S. economy doing well? Were voters sending a message in this year’s off-year elections? The answer is determined by whatever Joe Biden needs that day and has nothing to do with what he said yesterday, or even a few minutes ago. Also, the ACLU asks if Biden isn’t being fully briefed on what his administration is doing.
Polls Only Matter When They Bring Good News, Apparently
For the first few months of the Biden administration, the president often cited public-opinion polls as irrefutable evidence that his agenda was popular and that Congress, with its narrow Democratic majorities, ought to promptly pass his preferred legislation.
Biden on February 17: “The truth of the matter is, the polling data from last night, and all the polls you’ve all done — they come from you guys; not you personally, but your networks and your organizations — show that somewhere between 64 and 69 percent of the American people think we have to do this.”
Biden on February 19: “According to the polls, there is overwhelming bipartisan support. The vast majority of the American people — more than 70 percent of the American people, with all the polls you all conduct, including a majority of Republicans — want us to act, and act big and quickly and support the plan.”
Biden on March 19: “The American Rescue Plan is a plan that brings America together and benefits all America. That’s why so many polls show that over 70 percent of the country support it, including Democrats, Republicans, and independents.”
Biden on April 2: “Polls already show strong support for infrastructure investment for the American people, whether they’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents.”
The ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, found that a plurality (32 percent) of Americans think the bills would hurt people like them if they became law, while fewer (25 percent) think it would help them. Nearly 2 in 10 (18 percent) think the bills would make no difference, and 24 percent said they didn’t know.
Even among Democrats alone, fewer than half (47 percent) think the two bills would help people like them. A quarter of Democrats think the bills would make no difference for people like them and about 2 in 10 (22 percent) don’t know how they would impact their lives. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Republicans think the bills would hurt people like them, and so do about 3 in 10 (29 percent) independents.
A CNN poll in October found that, “Only 25 percent of Americans believe they and their family will be better off if the two bills making up Biden’s agenda pass. Meanwhile, 32 percent say they’ll be worse off, and 43 percent say they’ll be about the same. Among independents, who may be souring on Biden, only 20 percent say the bills will make them better off.”
Shockingly, right around this time, President Biden discovered that public-opinion polling doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t influence the decisions of policymakers.
Biden from Rome on October 31: “Look, the polls are going to up and down and up and down. They were high early, then they got medium, then they went back up, and now they’re low. Well, look, this is — look at every other president; the same thing has happened. But that’s not why I ran. I didn’t run to determine how well I’m going to do in the polls.”
In other words, poll numbers matter — unless they show disapproval for Biden or his agenda, and then they’re meaningless.
Wait, How Is the Economy Doing Again?
In Glasgow on Tuesday, Biden emphasized that the U.S. economy is doing well under his leadership: “Lastly, you know, if you take a look at what — what economy is growing? The United States. It’s growing. It has problems, mainly because of COVID and the supply chain, but it’s growing. We’ve created over 6 million jobs. We’re leading the world in terms of the fastest-growing economy — major economies.”
The U.S. is not the world’s fastest-growing economy; ranked by growth in 2021 by the International Monetary Fund, we’re a respectable 15th, but we’re behind Ireland, Chile, India, Turkey, China, Israel, the U.K., Hong Kong, and a handful of others.
Biden, explaining Democratic Party losses in Tuesday’s off-year elections, said yesterday that, “People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things — from COVID, to school, to jobs, to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline. . . . Look, people — people need a little breathing room. They’re overwhelmed. And what happened was — I think we have to just produce results for them to change their standard of living and give them a little more breathing room.”
In Biden’s view, the U.S. has the world’s fastest-growing economy, but Americans also feel upset, uncertain, and overwhelmed, need breathing room, and are still looking for an improvement in their standard of living.
Biden’s Lessons from Tuesday
Yesterday, when asked about Virginia, Biden spoke as if Terry McAuliffe had won his bid to reclaim the Virginia governor’s mansion: “I was talking to Terry to congratulate him today. He got 600,000 more votes than any Democrat ever has gotten. We brought out every Democrat about there was. More votes than ever has been cast for a Democratic incumbent — I mean, not incumbent — a Democrat running for governor.”
McAuliffe did not get 600,000 more votes than any Democratic gubernatorial candidate had ever gotten. McAuliffe won 1,579,591 votes; four years ago, Ralph Northam won 1,409,175 votes. Four years before that, McAuliffe won 1,069,789 votes. It is accurate to say that McAuliffe won more votes than a Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate had ever received before. Then again, between 2017 and 2021, Virginia gained about 200,000 more people.
Biden continued, “No governor in Virginia has ever won when he is of the same — where he or she is the same party as the sitting president.” That is not true; in 2013, when Barack Obama was president, McAuliffe won Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
Biden saw Tuesday’s election results — where Republicans swept Virginia statewide offices, won back control of the Virginia House of Delegates, nearly beat a New Jersey governor who was supposed to be a shoo-in, gained seats in the New Jersey state legislature, and dished out a “shellacking” in New York’s local races — as an endorsement of his agenda: “I do know that people want us to get things done. They want us to get things done. And that’s why I’m continuing to push very hard for the Democratic Party to move along and pass my infrastructure bill and my Build Back Better bill.”
One week has passed, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and the Build Back Better bill have not passed. The Democrats got beaten almost everywhere they were on the ballot on Tuesday. And as Vice President Kamala Harris declared at a rally for McAuliffe, “What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.”
ADDENDUM: Even the American Civil Liberties Union is publicly arguing that President Biden “hasn’t been fully briefed” on what his own administration is doing. Yesterday, the president surprised some people by insisting that reports that his administration is considering paying $450,000 per person to migrant families separated under the Trump administration are “garbage” and “not true.” The Wall Street Journal reported this, and added that, “In recent months, lawyers for the families and the government have told courts overseeing the cases that they are engaged in settlement negotiations and hoped to reach a deal by the end of November.”
It would be really shocking if these lawyers told courts a lie about settlement negotiations.
Nearly 100 congressional Republicans demanded Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security detail its plan for dealing with a caravan of migrants making its way through southern Mexico toward the US border.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas obtained exclusively by The Post, the lawmakers said they were “deeply concerned” about the situation and warned that border agents “are already overworked, undermanned, and under-supplied as a result of the influx of migrants this year.”
The letter, led by House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), also raised the specter of migrants attempting to force their way into the US after they pushed past a highway checkpoint manned by approximately 400 Mexican officers in the southern part of that country late last month.
“In the past year alone, U.S. Border Patrol has recorded nearly 1.7 million migrant apprehensions at the southern border, which is the highest number of illegal crossings in history,” Cruz and Stefanik wrote. “If the Administration does not begin to appropriately respond to these caravans and the ongoing border crisis, these surges will surely continue.”
“Joe Biden’s failed border policies have created the worst crisis at our southern border in 30 years. These policies are now incentivizing mass caravans of illegals to head to our southern border,” Stefanik said in a statement. “Instead of addressing the root cause of our border crisis, the Biden Administration is doubling down on their failed policies. It is past time for the Biden Administration to take action to secure our southern border and our nation.”
The caravan is estimated to contain between 3,000 and 4,000 migrants, most from Central America and the Caribbean. Some estimates say the group includes up to 1,000 children.
A volunteer doctor told Reuters earlier this week that more than half of the caravan participants have some kind of illness, including possible cases of COVID-19. The Mexican government’s National Migration Institute confirmed that six people in the caravan had contracted dengue fever, five of them children.
The latest surge is approaching the US weeks after thousands of migrants, many of them of Haitian origin, established a temporary encampment under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, after overwhelming the border checkpoint there.
While thousands of illegal immigrants were rounded up from under the Del Rio bridge and deported to Haiti or voluntarily turned back into Mexico, DHS officials estimated that between 10,000 and 13,000 were released into the United States to wait for their asylum claims to be heard by US immigration courts.
The letter suggested that the Biden administration’s response to the Del Rio crisis had “incentivized” the latest caravan.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris’s political decisions and immigration policies have created a man-made crisis in South Texas cities like Del Rio — hurting local Texas officials, farmers, ranchers, and businesses who are running low on resources to address the massive influx of illegal immigrants in their communities,” Cruz said in a statement. “As another caravan heads to our southern border, President Biden and his administration must reverse these disastrous policies that have emboldened international criminal cartels, human traffickers, and drug smugglers, and enforce federal immigration law to secure the border.”
The letter asks Mayorkas to outline diplomatic efforts DHS is undertaking to prevent the caravan from reaching the border, as well as how the department is making sure “malign actors” — including potential terror suspects — are not part of the group.
In addition, the lawmakers are asking whether authorities will expel migrants, either under the public health authority known as Title 42 or if the new arrivals do not have “legal basis” to remain in the US.
“We must enforce our immigration laws as we do any other laws and ensure migrants in this caravan with nonexistent asylum claims will not be released into the United States,” the letter to Mayorkas concludes. “The safety of our American citizens and future migrants depends on your actions.”
Senate Republicans threatened to shut down the government to stop the mandate, will they keep their word?
This morning the Biden regime announced that it may expand the politically divisive vaccine mandate to businesses with less than 100 employees, subjecting small businesses – the backbone of America’s economy – to $14,000 fines if they do not fire their unvaccinated workers or test them weekly for COVID-19.
After the news broke this morning that the Biden regime was moving ahead with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate despite staggering losses in Virginia, it was later reported that the vaccine mandate may be expanded after a 30-day public comment period.
“OSHA left open the possibility of expanding the requirement to smaller businesses,” reported the Associated Press. “It asked for public comment on whether employers with fewer than 100 employees could handle vaccination or testing programs.”
Currently, businesses with more than 100 employees must fire their unvaccinated workers or face fines of $14,000 per employee from OSHA, a regulatory agency within the Department of Labor.
JUST IN – OSHA will consider expanding the vaccine mandate to smaller businesses with fewer than 100 employees during a 30-day comment period, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Comment from small businesses in support of expanding the divisive vaccine mandate further seems unlikely. Already, the vaccine mandate is wildly unpopular among Republicans. Prior to his opponent’s radical anti-parent stance, Virginia Governor-elect’s campaign was based largely around opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns.
Additionally, Senate Republicans have already announced that they will stop a government funding bill and risk shutting down the federal government if Joe Biden and his White House do not blink on their vaccine mandate. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) recently revealed the plan in a video released to his constituents, as National File reported:
“I hope the president heard loud and clear to never get between a mama bear and her cubs,” the Republican from Kansas continued. “And whether the issue is guardrails for our school curriculum or the issues is a vaccine for our children, or maybe making that choice between a jab or a job for those children’s parents, that the President is listing – that we still value our individual liberties.”
“I want the people of Kansas, I want Congress, I want the President to know that we are going to use every tool in our toolbox, every arrow in our quiver to stop Joe Biden’s unlawful vaccine mandate,” said Marshall.
“Including, if we have to, stopping cloture on the CR to fund the government unless they take out this language which harms hard-working Americans.”
"I want the people of Kansas, I want Congress, I want @POTUS to know that we are going to use every tool in our toolbox, every arrow in our quiver to stop Joe Biden's unlawful vaccine mandate." pic.twitter.com/JlAnwW0ckY
Additionally, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) made another move that may gain significant support should Republicans retake the House of Representatives in 2022. Biggs introduced the Nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act to abolish OSHA, the regulatory agency charged with inspecting and fining small businesses as part of Biden’s vaccine mandate.
Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has said he has a “big agenda” to restore the excellence of Virginia schools, including an “aggressive charter school program.”
“Virginia has had a very, very poor record in charter schools in providing any choice within our public school system. So we’re going to launch right out of the box 20 charter schools that are going to provide parents choice within the public school system,” Youngkin told FoxBusiness on Nov. 4.
During his campaign, Youngkin viewed education as the top issue in Virginia.
“Parents are absolutely angry about what’s happening in the public school systems,” he said. “Our curriculum is going to be absolutely focused on making sure we’re getting the political rhetoric out of the classroom and really focused on how to prepare our kids how to think as opposed to what to think—so much of this is engaging with parents.”
Youngkin promised to ban critical race theory in Virginia schools during his campaign. Virginia parents made national headlines when they voiced their concerns at school board meetings, especially against the teaching of the quasi-Marxist critical race theory.
“We’re going to launch a task force in December. I will have named a new secretary of education and a new state superintendent of our schools by then, and we’re going to begin to engage with parents. We’re going to engage with educators, administrators, and students,” Youngkin said.
In his victory speech on Nov. 3, Youngkin promised that Virginia would “embrace” parents, not ignore them.
“It starts first with the leadership that we’re going to appoint, and then it really moves on to engaging at the grassroots level with teachers and school administrators and parents,” Youngkin said. “I’ve been very clear parents are going to be engaged in their schools. And we’re going to make sure that we have a really, really effective communication loop with parents so that we can take input. There’s just a new way of thinking about engaging with parents that we’re going to press forward with.”
Virginia will also raise expectations in Virginia schools, and children should be held to high standards; fund the largest education budget in the state’s history; raise teacher salaries; fund facilities; and fund special education programs that “heavily suffered” during the pandemic, he told FoxBusiness.
“So we’ve got a big agenda. We’ve got to get started,” Youngkin said, referring to the official date in which his tenure starts. “Jan. 15 can’t come fast enough.”
In a state where President Joe Biden won by a comfortable 10 points in 2020, Youngkin’s victory has been widely deemed a big blow to Democrats and a strong message of no to the policies being pushed by Democrats.
“What this election really demonstrated is that education is not a political issue. It is a fundamental concern of parents from all parts of the political spectrum. We brought together Democrats, Republicans, and independents—folks from all walks of life around this fundamental desire for their children to have a great education,” Youngkin said. “We took back our house of delegates, and that was a big statement.”
Republicans flipped seven seats in the election and regained a narrow 51–49 majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.
“I think this just reflects the fact that the kitchen table issues of low taxes and great schools and safe communities, and by the way, a growing economy with job opportunities—these kitchen table issues had been pushed to the background—and voters in Virginia said no, no, no, these are the most important topics for us,” Youngkin said. “And that’s why as we laid out our agenda, we focused on those things that are most important to get done.”
“Where parental consent is required, health workers should allow older children and adolescents to provide assent to the vaccination,” the document states.
Globalist white papers published by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 detail a sneaky approach to bypassing parental consent when it comes to vaccinating children ages 6-17.
The document, titled, “Considerations regarding consent in vaccinating children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years old,” explains how to deal with that population group which “may present for vaccination without an accompanying parent or legal guardian.”
The paper gives a normal description of “consent” before describing “assent” as “the process of children’s and adolescents’ participation in the decision-making on vaccination.”
According to the UN description of assent, “International law provides strong support for children’s rights to participate in decisions about their health and health care, and also in the planning and provision of health services relevant to them and based on their evolving capacity.”
Next, the globalist organization notes that the average age of adulthood throughout the world is 18-years-old, and that “in the age group 6 to 17 years cannot provide consent to vaccination and so consent is ‘normally’ required from their parent or legal guardian.”
However, the paper continues to insinuate allowing adolescents to choose for themselves is catching on.
“In a growing number of countries, the age of consent for medical interventions is set below the age of majority. This allows adolescents to provide consent for specific interventions, such as access to contraceptives or HIV testing. Some countries have fixed the age of consent specifically to allow HPV vaccination at 12 years.”
The next part of the document discusses what to do “when children present for vaccination [are] unaccompanied by their parents,” admitting, “it is challenging to determine whether parents indeed provided consent.”
The most nefarious section of the UN white papers is under part 3 of a page titled, “Common Approaches for Obtaining Consent for Vaccination.”
There, health workers are told that “implied consent” is a situation where “the physical presence of the child or adolescent, with or without an accompanying parent at the vaccination session, is considered to imply consent.”
The globalist group claims sending notices to parents announcing vaccination clinics will be appearing at schools is sufficient enough to imply consent if the child then appears at the vaccination clinic without the parent.
In fact, the paper claims it’s the parent’s responsibility to go out of their way to ensure their child isn’t vaccinated without their knowledge or approval.
“Countries that use implied consent for childhood vaccination, consider the parent bringing the child for vaccination as an expression of informed consent,” the document reads.
Under a section touching on mandatory vaccination laws and informed consent, the document claims, “When mandatory vaccination is established in relevant provisions in law, consent may not be required.”
This section is especially applicable considering the Covid-19 pandemic and related mandatory vaccine laws being established by nations across the globe.
Near the end of the 8-page notice, the WHO flat-out tells health care workers to allow children ages 6-17 to decide whether or not they want to be vaccinated, regardless of parental consent.
“Where parental consent is required, health workers should allow older children and adolescents to provide assent to the vaccination,” it states.
Under the Biden administration, the United States has repeatedly followed the UN’s recommended procedures for Covid-19 and vaccinations.
With the Pfizer Covid vaccine being approved for American kids aged 5-11 on Tuesday, can we expect pop-up vaccine clinics to begin injecting schoolchildren without the parents’ knowledge?
These city employees think Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate is pure garbage — and they should know!
Sanitation workers outraged over the order to get inoculated against COVID-19 are letting trash pile up across Staten Island and in parts of Brooklyn — and the head of their union said Wednesday that he’s on their side.
The protesting workers are engaging in a rule-book slowdown that includes returning to their garages for things like gloves or gas so collections don’t get finished, sources said.
Supervisors have even been warned to guard the garages this weekend to prevent trucks from getting vandalized, sources said.
When asked what was going on, Teamsters Local 831 President Harry Nespoli, whose union represents the sanitation workers, shot back, “The mandate’s going on.”
“Look, you’re going to have some spots in the city that they feel very strongly about this,” he said.
Nespoli added: “I’ll tell you straight out: I disagree with the mandate because of one reason. We have a program in place right now in the department, which is, you get the vaccination or you get tested once a week.”
Mayor de Blasio has required city workers to get the jab.The protesting workers are engaging in a rule-book slowdown that includes returning to their garages for things like gloves or gas so collections don’t get finished, sources said.
Nespoli said the vaccination rate among the agency is about 65 percent.
“Our vaccinations are going up on a regular basis,” the union chief noted. “In the last five days, we had 300 more that got vaccinated.”
Residents of Staten Island’s Dongan Hills neighborhood said Wednesday’s scheduled pick-up didn’t take place, echoing what happened on Saturday.
“A few more days of this and people will be screaming in the streets!” said Nick Gisonda, 69.
A view of a trash pile on Victory Blvd. on Staten Island.
But the retired city mechanic expressed solidarity with the sanitation workers, saying, “It’s like Nazi Germany: ‘Where are your papers? Your cards! Show me your cards!’”
A neighbor who identified herself as Julie added, “What the city is doing is unfair.”
“I am coming from Russian federation and this is deja vu,” she said.
“People should not be forced by state to take medicine, because state says, ‘Do this or starve!’ They should be free. That is why I came here 20 years ago.”
In Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, dozens of bags stuffed with trash were heaped in three piles along Shore Road.
Nespoli said the vaccinations among the sanitation workers is around 65 percent.
“If they aren’t going to pick it up, it’s going to be a big problem,” said Rolando Ponze, the superintendent of a local apartment building.
Ponze also noted that Owl’s Head Park was located around the corner, on the other side of 68th Street.
“If you keep this here for a while, the rats are definitely going to cross,” he said.
Garbage piled up on Amboy Road in Great Kills, Staten Island.
Other areas in Brooklyn where mounds of rubbish are piling up include Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Bath Beach, Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington, Canarsie, Mill Basin and the Flatlands, according to the Sanitation Department.
Under de Blasio’s directive, city employees have until 5 p.m. Friday to get their first shot — and collect a $500 bonus — or be placed on leave without pay.
But enforcement won’t begin until Monday, giving still-hesitant workers one last weekend to reconsider.
53 per cent won’t be convinced by anything or anyone.
The results of a poll reveal that more than half of unvaccinated Americans say “nothing” will change their mind about getting the jab.
Researchers in Boston, New York and Barcelona found that 53 per cent of participants who hadn’t been vaccinated won’t be convinced by anyone to take the shot.
13 per cent said they may be swayed by advice from a close friend or family member, while 9 per cent said a recommendation from a family doctor could change their mind.
“Conservatives, people living in poverty, and those who worked outside the home were more likely to be against vaccination, the survey data showed,” reports the Daily Mail.
The fact that the survey was conducted in April 2021, before the ‘delta’ surge and the announcement of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate scheme is telling.
Over 6 months ago, the poll found that 21 per cent of respondents said they did not want to get the vaccine.
Current figures show that around 20 per cent of U.S. adults remain unvaccinated, meaning that only around 1 per cent have been convinced during that time.
As we highlighted earlier, unvaccinated Americans working for companies with more than 100 employees are set to be punished by being forced to wear masks at all times indoors.
While a slim majority of Americans say their minds can’t be changed when it comes to getting the vaccine, the number is significantly higher in Germany.
As we previously reported, 90 per cent of Germans who haven’t taken the COVID-19 vaccine say they won’t get it, with only the remaining 10 per cent saying they will “probably” get it or remaining undecided.
Biden Regime Announces It May Expand Vaccine Mandate To Smaller Businesses
Senate Republicans threatened to shut down the government to stop the mandate, will they keep their word?
This morning the Biden regime announced that it may expand the politically divisive vaccine mandate to businesses with less than 100 employees, subjecting small businesses – the backbone of America’s economy – to $14,000 fines if they do not fire their unvaccinated workers or test them weekly for COVID-19.
After the news broke this morning that the Biden regime was moving ahead with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate despite staggering losses in Virginia, it was later reported that the vaccine mandate may be expanded after a 30-day public comment period.
“OSHA left open the possibility of expanding the requirement to smaller businesses,” reported the Associated Press. “It asked for public comment on whether employers with fewer than 100 employees could handle vaccination or testing programs.”
Currently, businesses with more than 100 employees must fire their unvaccinated workers or face fines of $14,000 per employee from OSHA, a regulatory agency within the Department of Labor.
Comment from small businesses in support of expanding the divisive vaccine mandate further seems unlikely. Already, the vaccine mandate is wildly unpopular among Republicans. Prior to his opponent’s radical anti-parent stance, Virginia Governor-elect’s campaign was based largely around opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns.
Additionally, Senate Republicans have already announced that they will stop a government funding bill and risk shutting down the federal government if Joe Biden and his White House do not blink on their vaccine mandate. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) recently revealed the plan in a video released to his constituents, as National File reported:
Additionally, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) made another move that may gain significant support should Republicans retake the House of Representatives in 2022. Biggs introduced the Nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act to abolish OSHA, the regulatory agency charged with inspecting and fining small businesses as part of Biden’s vaccine mandate.