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Members of Congress And Their Staff Are Exempt From Biden’s Vax Mandate

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The Biden regime’s vaccine mandate is only for the plebs. 
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From <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/members-congress-staff-exempt-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-1627859">Newsweek, “Members of Congress and Their Staff Are Exempt From Biden’s Vaccine Mandate”</a>:
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President Joe Biden’s new vaccine mandates for federal employees don’t apply to members of Congress or those who work for Congress or the federal court system.
Biden issued two executive orders on Thursday requiring vaccination against COVID for federal workers and contractors who work for the federal government. He also asked the Department of Labor to issue an emergency order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis.
However, Biden’s order on federal workers applies to employees of the executive branch. The House of Representatives and the Senate belong to the separate legislative branch, and the courts to the judicial branch of the federal government.
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Owen reacts to the news that Congress and their staff will be exempt from Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandate.
Fox News reported Thursday that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-plan-for-forced-vaccinations-doesnt-include-illegal-immigrants">illegal aliens are also not included in the vaccine mandate.</a>
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Peter Doocy: vaccines are mandated for "people at a business with more than 100 people. It is not a requirement for migrants at the border. Why?"
Jen Psaki: "That's correct"
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— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1436412406071271426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Fauci Struggles to Explain Why People With Natural Immunity Should Take Vax: ‘I Don’t Have A Really Firm Answer For You On That’

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Anthony Fauci on Friday struggled to explain why people with natural immunity should take Big Pharma’s experimental shots considering a study out of Israel showed people with natural immunity have far more robust protection from the virus. 
“That’s a really good point… I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that,” Fauci said. 
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Dr. Fauci on why Americans who’ve previously been infected should get vaccinated despite studies showing it’s unnecessary: “I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that” <a href="https://t.co/Y1CH2Wh6nk">pic.twitter.com/Y1CH2Wh6nk</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1436366439901024262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Fauci went on to claim we don’t know how long natural immunity will last but failed to highlight that <a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62510">“vaccine” effectiveness against infection and hospitalization is rapidly waning</a>and <a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62513">that’s why he’s already pushing for everyone to get booster shots.</a>
During the same interview, Fauci said he thought Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate was “moderate” and he would order everyone to take Big Pharma’s experimental injections in order to have a job.
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Dr. Fauci on Biden's vaccine mandates: "I think the president is being somewhat moderate in his demand, if you want to call it that." <a href="https://t.co/493tzKfvSF">pic.twitter.com/493tzKfvSF</a>
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1436340877614620680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Owen exposes the flip flopping of both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the push mandatory vaccines.
Last month, Fauci said he supports mandating experimental covid shots for all school children.
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Last year, Fauci brushed off the notion of mandatory vaccines and said the government “would never mandate” them “for any element of the general public.” 
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VIDEO: Mandatory Vaccine. – Dr. Fauci once said, 'mandatory' vaccine injections are not necessary and will not happen. <a href="https://t.co/PG8PTPJouj">pic.twitter.com/PG8PTPJouj</a>
— New Granada (@NewGranada1979) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewGranada1979/status/1412073746865614851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“I don’t see [a vaccine mandate] on a national level merely because of all the situations you have upon encroaching upon a person’s freedom to make their own choice of their own health,” Fauci said during another interview. 
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Anthony Fauci, July 2020: “I don’t see [a vaccine mandate] on a national level merely because of all the situations you have upon encroaching upon a person’s freedom to make their own choice of their own health” <a href="https://t.co/iHHr2TwIUj">pic.twitter.com/iHHr2TwIUj</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1436354486109356041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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‘This is fiction’: Confused Stephen King makes claim about ‘1,200 dead’ of Covid in Florida in ONE day, others eat up and spread

Horror novelist Stephen King may pay his bills by inventing stories, but he was accused of taking creative license with health data, saying 1,200 Floridians died of Covid in one day – a claim that remains up despite being untrue.
“1200 dead of COVID yesterday in Florida,” King, who lives in both Florida and Maine, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1436352232530792456" target="_blank">tweeted</a> on Friday. “Not the total for a week or a month, but ONE SINGLE DAY.”
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Though King’s tweet has yet to be flagged or taken down by Twitter for spreading misinformation, it’s unclear where exactly he is getting this daily death figure from.
Like multiple other states, Florida stopped reporting daily deaths in June. Instead, they now present seven-day rolling averages, which many experts believe to be a much more accurate metric for pandemic trends.
As Miami ABC affiliate Local 10 <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/09/09/florida-adds-another-1296-covid-19-deaths-12k-more-cases/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">explained</a> in their reporting on the ‘1200 deaths’ from Covid-19 on Thursday, “those deaths did not all happen over the past day and span back weeks.”
A hospital in Queens caught on fire today.
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King must not have read that report or been aware of the difference in daily Covid-19 deaths versus backlogged data being added to a total death count, but plenty took the novelist at his word and spread his falsehood across social media.
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King is not the first to make this mistake in a rush to criticize Florida and Governor Ron DeSantis, whose star in the Republican Party has quickly risen as he’s become one of the most vocal opponents of federal Covid-19 mandates.
Multiple local outlets previously <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/09/09/fact-check-false-claim-901-florida-covid-19-patients-died-one-day/5655963001/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a> a daily death count of over 900 on August 26 in Florida, making the same mistake King appears to have made in confusing deaths added to the state’s tally with the actual number of deaths on a given day. 
Were the alleged 1,200 number actually true as a daily figure, it would’ve spelled pretty bad news for Florida, considering the state had a total of approximately 7,600 deaths in the month of August, with a daily average of 245. King’s number was also higher than the seven-day average of deaths in Florida as of September 9, which is 338. There’s little surprise that those who took his misleading tweet at face value were shocked and outraged.
Though King’s tweet has yet to face any consequences from Big Tech, plenty of users were quick to label the President Joe Biden supporter a “liar” and to link him to accurate reporting proving his statement to be false.
“As usual, this isn’t true,” National Review’s Charles C. Cooke tweeted, linking to a local report explaining the 1,200 deaths did not occur on one single day.
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“This is fiction. It is what [Stephen King] does best,” <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1436360746896560137" target="_blank">added</a> conservative actor and filmmaker Nick Searcy, who starred in the ‘11/22/63’ adaptation of King’s novel.
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FALSE. "Those deaths did not all happen over the past day and span back weeks. The backdating of fatalities shows now that more than 7,600 people died in Florida in August. That equates to an average of 245 deaths per day in August."<a href="https://t.co/xMFlo4grso">https://t.co/xMFlo4grso</a>
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King has been supportive of Biden’s recently-announced vaccine mandate, even saying on Thursday the president’s sudden reversal – he was <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.rt.com/usa/508751-biden-vaccine-mandate-americans/" target="_blank">previously opposed</a> to mandates – is a sign of an “intelligent mind.”
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Republicans are making a big deal about Biden changing his mind about vaccine mndates, but the ability to change is the clearest sign of an intelligent mind. Biden changed because the situation changed: Delta variant.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1436285640073695284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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NYT: Biden May Have Droned Innocent Family in Kabul; Possible War Crime

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The New York Times published the results of an investigation on Friday that suggests the Biden administration targeted an innocent man who worked for a U.S. organization in a drone strike that killed several civilians. If true, the airstrike could constitute a violation of international law governing such targeted killings in wartime — in other words, a war crime.
The airstrike, which took place on August 29, was presented by the Biden administration as an attack on a potential ISIS-K terrorist who had been driving an explosive-laden vehicle that was to be detonated at the international airport in Kabul. It was the second such strike, following one on Aug. 28 in Nangarhar province <a href="https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-evacuations-kabul-islamic-state-group-7f146c8ae5d9e9ab225025527e421226" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">against</a> suspected Islamic State terrorists.
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a> suggests that the U.S. killed “the wrong person” in a report accompanied by security camera <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007963596/us-drone-attack-kabul-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">footage</a> that shows the target, Zemari Ahmadi, filling water canisters for his family that the military may have mistaken for explosives.
Astonishingly, the Times reports that “[m]ilitary officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired.” But in the wake of an August 26 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers as well as scores of Afghan civilians, they believed that he posed an imminent danger based on “how they interpreted his activities that day.”
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>:
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Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The evidence, including extensive interviews with family members, co-workers and witnesses, suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.
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Although U.S. officials said that at that point they still knew little about Mr. Ahmadi’s identity, they had become convinced that the white sedan he was driving posed an imminent threat to troops at the airport.
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[A]n examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by the Times visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion.
Experts who examined photos and videos pointed out that, although there was clear evidence of a missile strike and subsequent vehicle fire, there were no collapsed or blown-out walls, no destroyed vegetation, and only one dent in the entrance gate, indicating a single shock wave.
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Epic’s win over Apple is actually an Apple victory

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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22412725/apple-fortnite-epic-antitrust-court-case">great Apple-Epic Games trial</a> about Apple’s control over its own App Store and whether it was an unfair monopoly now has a decision, and it’s not great for Epic Games.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060631-apple-epic-judgement">ruled</a> in Apple’s favor on almost every count. Epic Games had hoped to prove that the tech giant’s App Store was a monopoly, causing higher prices for consumers and forcing developers to follow all of its rules in order to be allowed on Apple’s mobile devices.
Gonzalez Rogers ruled that the App Store is not a monopoly and that Apple should not be punished for its success. And while the court is forcing Apple to allow developers to tell app users about alternative ways they can pay for subscriptions and in-app purchases — which may seem like (and in some cases, <a href="https://twitter.com/eriqgardner/status/1436380923059187719">was initially reported</a> as) a win for Epic — Apple will be allowed to continue most of the App Store practices Epic was fighting to get it to stop.
“The Court finds in favor of Apple on all counts except with respect to violation of California’s Unfair Competition law (Count Ten) and only partially with respect to its claim for Declaratory Relief,” the judge wrote.
But you don’t have to take her word for it; Epic’s and Apple’s statements also reflect whose side the verdict favored.
“Today’s ruling isn’t a win for developers or for consumers,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney <a href="https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1436370670166945792">tweeted</a>. “Epic is fighting for fair competition among in-app payment methods and app stores for a billion consumers.”
“The court has affirmed what we’ve known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law,” Apple said.
A big factor in the decision was the definition of the “market” Apple allegedly had a monopoly over. This was a sticking point in the trial: Apple argued that the market was all gaming platforms; Epic said the market was just Apple’s App Store. Gonzalez Rogers said <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22452154/apple-epic-fortnite-app-store-trial-final-day">during the trial</a> that she thought the market might be all mobile gaming, which would include other mobile platforms and stores like Google Play. And that’s the definition she went with in her ruling. It’s hard to prove that Apple is a monopoly when the judge’s definition of the market also includes its competitors.
The one victory Epic Games did achieve was a limited one: Though Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple had to allow developers to show app users links where they can make purchases outside of the App Store (purchases Apple won’t get a cut of), Epic is still not allowed to insert its own payment method in the app itself, nor can it place its own app store on Apple devices.
“This measured remedy will increase competition, increase transparency, increase consumer choice and information while preserving Apple’s iOS ecosystem which has pro-competitive justifications,” the judge wrote.
But Apple had already decided (or was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-trade-commission-closes-app-store-investigation-2021-09-02/">strongly</a> <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/08/apple-us-developers-agree-to-app-store-updates/">pressured</a>) a few weeks ago to end its prohibition on telling users they could purchase subscriptions and in-game items outside of the App Store. So this ruling doesn’t really change anything for Apple now, and companies like Epic and Spotify are already <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/8/27/22644616/apple-app-store-changes-antitrust-spotify-epic-fortnite">on record</a> saying the ability to tell customers about their alternatives isn’t good enough.
As for Epic’s other claims, Gonzalez Rogers said the company “overreached” and couldn’t prove that Apple was a monopolist. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Apple isn’t a monopoly, nor that another plaintiff couldn’t make a better argument that it is. Gonzalez Rogers added: “The trial record was not as fulsome with respect to antitrust conduct in the relevant market as it could have been.” The 30 percent commission Apple takes on most subscriptions and in-app purchases, she said, “appears inflated” and was “potentially anticompetitive.” But, since Epic wasn’t challenging the amount of the commission (only the fact that there was one), she wasn’t able to rule on it.
So this one civil lawsuit won’t be the final word on Apple and antitrust. United States lawmakers and regulators, as well as those in several other countries, are pressuring Apple to change what they see as possible violations of their antitrust laws. Apple is one of several Big Tech companies included in the Biden administration’s big antitrust push, which includes <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/15/22398320/federal-trade-commission-lina-khan-chair-big-tech-antitrust-competition-law-amazon">appointing</a> Big Tech critic Lina Khan to the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The issue is bipartisan, too: Republican and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/6/21505027/congress-big-tech-antitrust-report-facebook-google-amazon-apple-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-tim-cook">Democratic</a> lawmakers are vocal Big Tech opponents and have <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22529779/antitrust-bills-house-big-tech">started to</a> introduce new antitrust bills targeting it, while state attorneys general <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/16/22179085/google-antitrust-monopoly-state-lawsuit-ad-tech-search-facebook">teamed up</a> to <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/7/7/22567656/google-play-store-states-antitrust-suit-letitia-james-utah-new-york-north-carolina">sue Google</a> for antitrust violations multiple times in the last year. Facebook has also been sued for antitrust violations by the FTC and almost every state — though the state attorneys general’s version of the suit was <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/28/22554634/ftc-states-antitrust-cases-against-facebook-federal-court-dismissed-for-now">thrown out</a>.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who has made antitrust in Big Tech one of her major issues, said the ruling showed that more antitrust laws were needed.
“App stores raise serious competition concerns,” Klobuchar said in a statement. “While the ruling addresses some of those concerns, much more must be done. We need to pass federal legislation on app store conduct to protect consumers, promote competition, and foster innovation.”
Spotify, which has been a vocal opponent of Apple’s App Store and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/4/30/22407918/eu-european-commission-apple-spotify-app-store">complained about it</a> to the European Union’s antitrust enforcement commission, said it was pleased with the part of the ruling that said Apple’s conduct was anti-competitive and barred its anti-steering rule, and hoped it would lead to more decisions like this.
“This and other developments around the world show that there is strong need and momentum for legislation to address these and many other unfair practices, which are designed to hurt competition and consumers,” Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez said in a statement.
As for <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/13/21366340/fortnite-epic-apple-app-store-ios-antitrust">Epic’s stunt</a> that kicked all of this off — putting a direct payment system in Fortnite that was in violation of the App Store rules, which got it booted from iOS and macOS devices — the judge ruled in Apple’s favor. Not only did she declare that Apple’s decision to terminate its agreement with Epic was “valid, lawful, and enforceable,” she also ordered Epic to pay Apple damages: 30 percent of the revenue it collected through the forbidden direct payment system from its August 2020 installation to the present day.
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