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Boston mayor compares vaccine passports to documentation required during slavery, birtherism | TheHill

“When we are combating a deadly virus and vaccine hesitancy, this kind of rhetoric is dangerous,” City Councilor Andrea Campbell tweeted. “Showing proof of vaccination is not slavery or birtherism. We are too close to give ground to COVID. Science is science. It’s pretty simple — Vax up and mask up.”

Source: Boston mayor compares vaccine passports to documentation required during slavery, birtherism | TheHill

Tyson to Workers: No Jab, No Job

Tyson Foods has become the first major food processing company to require vaccination against COVID for all employees, including floor workers.

CEO Donnie King issued an all-employees memo Aug. 3 stating that all workers must get vaccinated according to a schedule: executives by Sept. 24, other office workers by Oct. 1 and floor workers by Nov. 1. The requirement for floor workers may be subject to negotiations with unions.

Less than half of Tyson’s workforce of 56,000 has been vaccinated against COVID, the company estimates. Tyson has offered vaccinations at its plants and has paid cash incentives, which will continue, with a $200 bonus for plant workers.

“We did not take this decision lightly. We have spent months encouraging our team members to get vaccinated – today, under half of our team members are,” King wrote in the memo.

Source: Tyson to Workers: No Jab, No Job

A Bombshell That Few Noticed

Filosofa's Word

Last week, we found out that the former guy had instructed then-acting-attorney general Jeffrey Rosen to “Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen.” I saw this headline in numerous news sites that I visit daily, and like most of the rest of you, I growled a bit, called him a few choice names, then moved on to other stories. But as Robert Reich points out … that was the wrong move. This is THE story that is most important in its implications. I’ll let Mr. Reich explain …


A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all

Robert Reich

A newly released memo shows that Trump told the acting attorney general: ‘Just say the election was corrupt [and] leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen’

We’ve become so inured to Donald Trump’s proto-fascism that we…

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CENSORED NEWS: Native Attorney Tara Houska ‘People were shot in their faces, a young woman’s head was split open.’ Brutal arrests at Enbridge’s Line 3 Minnesota

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Source: CENSORED NEWS: Native Attorney Tara Houska ‘People were shot in their faces, a young woman’s head was split open.’ Brutal arrests at Enbridge’s Line 3 Minnesota

Cous Cous peperoni Topepo e patate

InTheNameOfSeitan

Dalla Calabria… da alcuni carissimi amici mi è stato regalato un bel quantitativo di peperoni Topepo o più comunemente chiamati peperoni pomodoro.

Ovviamente ho apprezzato tantissimo il loro regalo e, mentre ne palpavo la loro consistenza e apprezzavo la loro foggia, già fantasticavo in un loro impiego per una ricetta da postare!

Questa  varietà di peperone, si mangia anche crudo ed è apprezzatissimo da fare ripieno ma nel nostro caso lo andremo ad adattare per la realizzazione di un gustosissimo cous cous… Siete pronti? Procediamo…

Ingredienti (per 2 persone):

180gr di cous cous (preferibilmente integrale)inthenameofseitan-150x150

7-8 peperoni Topepo verdi (anche dei friggitelli di mediogrosso calibro faranno il loro lavoro)

3 patate medie

2 spicchi d’aglio

Brodo vegetale

Pomodori secchi sott’olio

Noci (oppure granella di noci)

Olio Evo

Sale

Pepe

Procuriamoci dei peperoni Tepepo (ma anche dei friggitelli andranno benissimo), dell’ottimo aglio e delle patate.

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Brooks pushes for immunity from Swalwell suit over January 6 | TheHill

Brooks asked the Justice Department to certify that he was acting within his official duties as a legislator when he delivered a speech on January 6, which under federal law would effectively shield him from such lawsuits. But last week, the Justice Department declined, arguing that his conduct that day appeared to be political campaigning, which does not fall under protected activity. ADVERTISEMENT “The record indicates that Brooks’s appearance at the January 6 rally was campaign activity, and it is no part of the business of the United States to pick sides among candidates in federal elections,” department lawyers wrote in their filing. One section of the Justice Department brief included the heading, “Instigating an attack on the United States Capitol would not be within the scope of a Member of Congress’s employment.”

Source: Brooks pushes for immunity from Swalwell suit over January 6 | TheHill

Meatpacking Giant Tyson Mandates Vaccines for All Workers – Mother Jones

With the highly contagious Delta variant now circulating in the United States, Tyson has emerged as the first meatpacking company to mandate that all its employees—from executives to workers on the kill floor—be vaccinated against COVID. Current packinghouse workers will have until Nov. 1 to go through a full course of vaccine shots; new hires will have to show proof of vaccination before their start dates. The company’s announcement doesn’t mention whether workers will be given paid time off to receive and recover from the shots, but it is offering a $200 bonus to fully vaccinated team members “as thank you for doing your part to keep us all safe.” (Tyson did not respond to requests for comment on whether workers will be offered time off to get the jabs.)

Source: Meatpacking Giant Tyson Mandates Vaccines for All Workers – Mother Jones

Avian Flu Diary: PLoS One: Potential Benefits of the Influenza Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 (Retrospective Cohort Analysis)

Three weeks ago, in ECCMID: Flu Jab May Provide Some Protection Against Severe Effects Of COVIDwe looked at a press release on a presentation of an unpublished study at the  31st ECCMID Conference that found that those who received a flu vaccine within 6 months of contracting COVID appeared significantly less likely to experience severe disease.

Source: Avian Flu Diary: PLoS One: Potential Benefits of the Influenza Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 (Retrospective Cohort Analysis)