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<\/p>\nPentagon Hit With Massive Class Action Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandates<\/h2>\n
Technocracy News reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Service members from all five branches of the U.S. military, federal employees, and federal civilian contractors have joined in a class-action lawsuit<\/a> against the Department of Defense over its COVID-19<\/a> vaccine mandates<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 24 plaintiffs \u201cface a deadline under the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs, and have been refused any religious exemption or accommodation,\u201d according to Liberty Counsel, the Christian legal firm that filed the lawsuit.<\/p>\n The lawsuit (pdf<\/a>), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, lists President Joe Biden<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as defendants.<\/p>\n Newsweek via MSN reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Thousands of children will not be in school on Monday as parents protest California Governor Gavin Newsom\u2019s COVID-19<\/a> vaccine requirement for students, by taking their kids to the state capitol to protest.<\/p>\n In October, Newsom\u2019s Office announced that California would be the first state in the U.S. to require school students to be vaccinated following the full FDA<\/a> approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for grades 7 to 12 and K-6. California also was the first state to implement school mask and staff vaccination mandates.<\/p>\n The Texas Tribune reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Texas Supreme Court halted a San Antonio school district\u2019s COVID-19<\/a>vaccine mandate<\/a> for teachers and school employees Thursday \u2014 hours before the requirement was supposed to take effect.<\/p>\n Under the mandate, all employees of San Antonio Independent School District were supposed to get vaccinated against the virus by Friday \u2014 directly challenging Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a>\u2019s ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Then-Superintendent Pedro Martinez enacted the rule in August, drawing lawsuits from Attorney General Ken Paxton<\/a>.<\/p>\n WSVN News Miami reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n A Miami school that made headlines for saying it would penalize teachers who got the COVID-19 vaccine<\/a> is now requiring students who get vaccinated<\/a> to remain home for 30 days after each dose.<\/p>\n Parents of students at the Centner Academy recently received a letter from its Chief Operating Officer that read in part, \u201c\u2026if you are considering the vaccine for your Centner Academy student(s), we ask that you hold off until the Summer when there will be time for the potential transmission or shedding onto others to decrease.\u201d<\/p>\n Fox Business reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has asked a federal court in Texas for a temporary restraining order to prevent the airline from implementing its COVID-19<\/a> vaccine mandate<\/a> for employees on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n SWAPA, which represents approximately 9,000 Southwest Airlines pilots, filed a lawsuit<\/a> on Aug. 30, claiming that Southwest has made unilateral changes that violate the \u201cstatus quo\u201d provision of the the Railway Labor Act (RLA), which governs relations between airlines and unions, by not maintaining terms of an existing contract during negotiations.<\/p>\n Zero Hedge reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Kern County Judge Bernard Barmann issued a temporary restraining order to prevent enforcement of the mandate as the court considers a preliminary injunction request.<\/p>\n The vaccine mandate<\/a> was scheduled to take effect Friday. It will continue to apply to other employees who work in state prisons with health care facilities.<\/p>\n The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has opposed vaccine mandates<\/a> across the state. The union represents about 28,000 officers statewide.<\/p>\n Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s chief executive Sunday, and accused the company\u2019s top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, of either misleading Congress or possibly lying to it about Amazon<\/a>\u2018s business practices.<\/p>\n The letter also states that the committee is considering \u201cwhether a referral of this matter to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation is appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n Addressed to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the letter followed a Reuters investigation<\/a> last week that showed that the company had conducted a systematic campaign of copying products and rigging search results in India to boost sales of its own brands \u2014 practices Amazon has denied engaging in.<\/p>\n Associated Press reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Opponents of a COVID-19<\/a> vaccine mandate<\/a> for healthcare workers in Maine filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after being dealt another legal defeat on Friday.<\/p>\n The appeal was filed hours after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston denied a request to stop the mandate from going into effect.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court previously has rejected challenges of vaccine requirements for New York City teachers and Indiana University staff and students.<\/p>\n Business Insider reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Facebook<\/a> plans to create 10,000 jobs across the European Union (EU) over the next five years in pursuit of CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s vision of a \u201cmetaverse,\u201d the company announced in a press release Monday.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg first told The Verge<\/a> in July that he wants Facebook to eventually become a \u201cmetaverse company.\u201d<\/a> The word metaverse<\/a> refers to a theoretical virtual space where people can access the internet, for example using virtual-reality or augmented-reality headsets.<\/p>\n NBC News reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Longtime ESPN college football and basketball reporter Allison Williams <\/a>said over the weekend that she will be leaving the network over its COVID-19<\/a> vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been denied my request for accommodation\u201d to not get the vaccine, Williams, 37, said in a video posted Friday to Instagram<\/a>. \u201cEffective next week I will be separated from the company.\u201d<\/p>\n The Washington Post via MSN reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Last week, the makers of a globally popular Koran app said Apple<\/a> had kicked them off its app store in China. The app is used by millions of Muslims around the world to study the Koran and track prayer times. Though Islam is legal in China, the government has for years been attempting to limit the activities of those living in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang, taking steps like arresting imams<\/a> and detaining hundreds of thousands<\/a> of people in camps where they are sometimes tortured.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Apple didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment, but the company directed the BBC<\/a> to its human rights statement<\/a>, which includes the line: \u201cWe\u2019re required to comply with local laws, and at times there are complex issues about which we may disagree with governments.\u201d<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s deference to the Chinese regime is well-documented. China is where nearly all of the company\u2019s smartphones are made \u2014 and where 1 in 5 of them are sold, netting Apple more than $40 billion a year in revenue.<\/p>\nCalifornia School Walkout as Thousands of Parents Defy Child Vaccine Mandate<\/h2>\n
Texas Supreme Court Puts San Antonio School District\u2019s Vaccine Mandate on Hold<\/h2>\n
Miami Private School to Require Students Getting COVID Vaccine to Stay Home for 30 Days After Each Dose<\/h2>\n
Southwest Pilots\u2019 Union Asks Court to Delay Vaccine Mandate<\/h2>\n
Judge Temporarily Blocks Vaccine Mandate Requirement for California Prison Workers<\/h2>\n
Amazon May Have Lied to Congress, Five U.S. Lawmakers Say<\/h2>\n
Maine\u2019s COVID Mandate Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court<\/h2>\n
Facebook Says It\u2019s Hiring 10,000 People in Europe to Help Build Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u2018Metaverse\u2019<\/h2>\n
ESPN Reporter Allison Williams Leaving Network Over COVID Vaccine Mandate<\/h2>\n
The Days of U.S. Tech Companies Fighting Back Against Authoritarian Regimes Are Long Gone<\/h2>\n
Chicago Police Department Says Officers Who Don\u2019t Adhere to Vaccination Policy Could Be Fired<\/h2>\n