An interesting about-face from the Dept of Labor and OSHA.  Previously OSHA stated that any employer who required vaccinations must report adverse reactions as workplace injuries.  However, OSHA is now saying they will not “enforce” that record-keeping requirement until May of 2022.

Essentially, vaccine mandating employers don’t have to start recording vaccination reactions as workplace injuries for another year.   This is a complete reversal from the OSHA position earlier this month.  The rules have now been modified as below:

OSHA – “DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.” (LINK)

Notice the obtuse wording: “OSHA will not enforce” the recording requirement.   So long as everyone sticks to “don’t ask/don’t tell” employers will no longer be penalized on their workplace injuries (OSHA log) and/or insurance rate from negative results of mandated, untested, non-FDA approved, vaccines.

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Before John Steinbeck became a world-famous author and won the Nobel Prize for literature, he was just another struggling novelist experimenting with genres and piling up rejection slips.

Steinbeck ripped up two of his early novels but a third — a full-length werewolf mystery called “Murder at Full Moon” — has been brought to light by a British professor at Stanford University who wants the Steinbeck estate to publish it, the Guardian reported Saturday.

The 233-page manuscript, which Steinbeck wrote under the pen name Peter Pym, has been stuck in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin after Steinbeck failed to get it published in 1930.

“There would be a huge public interest in a totally unknown werewolf novel by one of the best-known, most read American writers of the 20th century,” said Professor Gavin Jones, a specialist in American literature at Stanford.

“This is a novel that really nobody knows about. It’s a complete novel by Steinbeck. It’s incredible.”

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has voiced stern opposition to teaching the “1619 Project” curriculum in the state’s schools. Noem, a Republican, took to Twitter on Friday to criticize the “1619 Project,” saying it “claims that America was founded on racism and slavery, not on an ideal of equality. It seeks to incorrectly re-frame the […]

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How the BBC lied and lied about the MoS scoop which exposed the forged bank statements that first nailed Martin Bashir

• In 1996 Mail on Sunday journalist Nick Fielding received a call claiming Panorama’s Martin Bashir had used deception to gain access to Princess Diana
• Behind the scenes BBC executives repeatedly quizzed Bashir who categorically denied he showed forged documents to Earl Spencer to land the interview
• On the fourth time of asking on March 23, 1996, Bashir admitted he had used the documents but BBC management mounted a cover-up which lasted for 25 years

A spate of anti-semitic attacks are being fueled by social media, where Jew-hating content can often whip around the world without fear or fact-check, experts and activists say.

“Anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory and there is no more fertile ground for the rapid spread of conspiracy theories than social media because nobody has to fact check anything,” Blake Flayton, founder of the nonprofit New Zionist Congress, told The Post.

“If [Nazi propagandist Joseph] Goebbels were alive today he would be a kid in a candy store,” Flayton added. “The lies are much more egregious because of their ability to spread so much faster and reach so many more people.”

False claims that Israel torched East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as inflammatory statements from a fake Israeli Defense Forces Twitter account, are just a few which have spread wildly across the web in recent days.

Campaign finance records reveal that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and House Speaker Dade Phelan received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a PAC for a clinic that offers hormone treatment to allegedly transgender children.

UT Southwestern Medical Center hosts the Gender Education and Care Interdisciplinary Support (GENECIS) program, which is the “first and largest program in the southwest that provides multidisciplinary care to transgender children and adolescents.” While the program does not offer surgery to children, it does offer a number of so-called “treatments” that may amount to chemical castration, including hormone therapy, menstruation suppression, and puberty suppression.

“Our team has impacted thousands of youth across the country and is a vital resource for patients, families and communities,” their website reads. “We support youth of all gender expressions and identities, and provide evidence-based, gender-affirming care in a supportive and safe environment,” it continues, claiming that “gender identity is unique for every child and may be different from the sex assigned to them at birth.”

Campaign finance records show that the Friends of UT Southwestern Center, also known as FOMCPAC, handed out well over $250,000 in total to a number of top Texas politicians who were recently involved in shutting down multiple pieces of legislation that would have prevented hormone treatment and surgery from being provided to supposed transgender children in the state.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who National File has been told led the charges against the bills designed to protect children, received $85,000 from the transgender clinic PAC since 2015. His Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick, received the lion’s share from FOMCPAC however, taking over $120,000 since 2015. Newly-elected House Speaker Dade Phelan was given $50,000 in the 2020 cycle by the clinic’s PAC. Similarly, Rep. Stephanie Klick, who was in a position to block these bills in her role as the Chair of the House Health Committee, received $4,000 from FOMCPAC since 2015.

According to Tracy Shannon, the Director of the Texas Mass Resistance activist group, Phelan’s decision to declare a recess yesterday effectively kills S.B. 1311’s chances of passing. S.B. 1311 would have stripped liability insurance for doctors who engage in transgender surgeries or chemical castrations for kids. . .

[ National File ]

On 2 May, Cuban state security officials took artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara from his home and to a hospital, while he was hunger-striking in protest over the confiscation of artwork from his home around the 22 April. Luis Manuel is a key figure in the San Isidro Movement, a diverse group of independent artists, journalists and activists that defend freedom of expression in Cuba. He is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely because of peacefully expressing his ideas, and should be released immediately and unconditionally.

Through his nonprofit, Living Lands & Waters, Chad Pregracke and a team of 117,000 dedicated volunteers have removed 11 million pounds of garbage from America’s rivers.

Growing up in Moline, Illinois, Pregracke spent a lot of time outdoors swimming, fishing and hunting in and around the Mississippi River. His first job was working as a clam digger, where he spent up to 10 hours a day diving the depths of the Mississippi. It was this experience that solidified a lasting connection to the river.

Pregracke told Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the “RFK Jr The Defender Podcast” about all the interesting things he’s found lying at the bottom of rivers, including an artillery shell shot during the Civil War, guns, grenades and plastic bags once filled with cash that were disposed of in the water after a bank robbery.

Living Lands & Waters has five barges, two towboats and six 30-foot work boats that can haul up to 5,000 pounds of trash. Once removed from the water, the nonprofit does its best to recycle as much of the garbage as possible, sorting it out into different categories of scrap metal, appliances, plastic, cans, bottles and more.

The organization also has an initiative, MillionTrees Project, through which it has planted nearly 1.5 million trees. Planting “trees is leaving a legacy,” said Pregracke. Trees will grow and create fruit for wildlife for generations to come, he said.

Listen to the full interview to hear Pregracke discuss his dream of introducing a small herd of Bison along the Mississippi as part of the nonprofit’s I-80 Restoration Project, the largest restoration project in Illinois history. The project seeks to restore the native prairie landscape which will benefit the local ecosystem and raise awareness about the endangered ecosystem.

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