They actually changed the definition. The definition was formerly, “A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.” That definition now reads, “A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.” link to article

China   now has the world's largest navy and is preparing to launch a new high-tech aircraft carrier by February, the Pentagon has revealed. Beijing  has 'numerically the largest navy in the world with an overall battle force of approximately 355 ships and submarines,' the Defense Department said last Wednesday in its annual  report  on China. ALSO,  The Pentagon this month issued a report saying China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than U.S. officials predicted just a year ago. link to article

She questioned the school board at a public meeting last month about the books’ availability in high school libraries. As she quoted from explicit passages in the book, a school board member interrupted her and chastised her for using explicit language. The school system then announced that it was pulling Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison from circulation pending a more detailed review. Gender Queer, an illustrated memoir, contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation. The novel Lawn Boy contains graphic descriptions of sex between men and children link to article

A  Minnesota  school board chairwoman has stirred outrage after she demanded that parents announce their home address if they want to speak at public meetings. Jodi Sapp, the chairwoman of the Mankato school board, opened the meeting on October 18 by telling parents they cannot ask any questions unless they revealed their home address, according to the now viral video. 'Each speaker is asked to state his or her name and home address for the record. Failure to do so will result in an individual not being allowed to speak,' Sapp read aloud. link to article

Cuba has agreed a new deal with China to upgrade its power grid, inviting Chinese firms to invest and build It is just the latest of Beijing's loans, building projects, and investments to Latin America and the Caribbean  China has also rapidly increased trade with the region which rose from $12bn in 2000 to $315bn in 2020  America has been muscled out of its own back yard, as diplomats warn the US is 'giving up without a fight' All of which gives China leverage  that it uses to get its own way on the international stage, from winning votes at the UN to isolating its enemies link to article

A report from the Financial Times, which cited five unnamed intelligence sources, said the Chinese military launched the Long March rocket in August carrying a 'hypersonic glide vehicle' into low orbit. It circled the globe before descending towards its target, which it missed by about two dozen miles. The system would be able to overcome US anti-ballistic missile defence systems that are based in Alaska and set up to shoot down projectiles coming over the North Pole - the Chinese system would be able to strike the US from the south. link to article

Maybe gulags aren’t needed when the entire society is living in one. On Oct. 6, the Los Angeles City Council proclaimed, nearly unanimously (11–2), COVID-19 mandates that require proof of vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, movie theaters, salons, shopping centers, and just about every other public indoor space you could think of in the entertainment capital. Others, with the encouragement of our federal government, will soon be following suit in varying degrees or already have. link to article

Katie Couric has admitted to 'protecting'  Ruth Bader Ginsburg  from public backlash by cutting out negative comments she made about people who kneel during the national anthem.  The former Today show host reveals in her new book that she let her personal political views influence her editing decisions after her interview with the late Supreme Court justice in 2016.  In new memoir,  Going There , Couric writes that she edited out a part where Ginsburg said that those who kneel during the national anthem are showing 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.'  link to article

China  has proposed banning all news organisations that are not directly funded by the Communist Party.  The new law, drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission, would ban any private investment in 'news gathering, editing, and broadcasting'. link to article It marks the ruling CCP's latest crackdown on private enterprise, after the country's booming tech sector and billionaire owners were hammered earlier this year.

“No matter who you are, as long as the CCP says that you tested positive in a nucleic acid test, it will deprive you of all your rights. The CCP’s quarantine sites are actually an alternative form of   concentration camp .” “If there is no nucleic acid test, all the CCP’s epidemic prevention measures are the same as political campaigns. For example, you can be quarantined at any time and put in a quarantine site. And the quarantine sites can also be a place of political persecution,” Lin said. link to article

The  Los Angeles  City Council on Oct. 6 approved one of the strictest COVID-19 vaccination mandates in the country, requiring proof of vaccination to enter indoor restaurants, movie theaters, salons, shopping centers, and many more indoor venues. People will have to provide vaccination proof at gyms, sports arenas, museums, spas, indoor government facilities, malls, restaurants, and bars. link to article

The Pentagon's first ever chief software officer resigned last month in protest at the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, claiming the failure to respond to China winning the Artificial Intelligence battle is putting the U.S. at risk. Nicolas Chaillan, 37,  told the Financial Times  after resigning: 'We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years.' link to article

There have been multiple reports of military planes arriving at Bagram airbase in  Afghanistan , just hours after images emerged showing that power was restored to the base for the first time since US forces evacuated the stronghold in July. Images circulating on social media appear to show the airbase's floodlights blazing in the distance, amid reports that several military planes have taken off and landed at the base in recent hours. Several sources suggest that the aircraft are Chinese, given the  Taliban  are not thought to possess the expertise needed to power the base or maintain and fly several military aircraft.  Link to article

Harris flew out of Joint Base Andrews in  Maryland  at 11am Friday and arrived in Palm Springs - a little more than 100 miles east of  Los Angeles  - around 7pm.  Reporters were not permitted to watch Harris leave Maryland, according to the Washington Times.   And no reason has been given for this secret trip. Link to article

Louisiana 's largest health system is ratcheting up the pressure to get people vaccinated against  COVID-19  and will start fining employees hundreds of dollars each month if they are married to someone who is unvaccinated.  Link to article

As with past measures, the Chinese regime has framed the series of actions as necessary for the public good. But the pace of the activity has been dizzying, with a thoroughness unseen in China’s recent memory. Be it e-commerce, entertainment, education, or gaming, few areas of Chinese society have been left unscathed amid Beijing’s torrent of regulatory activity in recent months. As authorities clamped down on the offending actors, stock markets tumbled with hundreds of billions wiped out, while companies and individuals have scrambled to assess the new rules, lest they tread on the regime’s toes. Link to article

Xi Jinping's authoritarian regime tried desperately to shut down whistle-blowers and silence any discussion of the virus in the early stages of the Wuhan outbreak - even when an untold number of corpses started flooding the city's hospitals. Any references made in social media about a new SARS virus or 'outbreak' were censored and brave medical staff who tried to speak out and warn the world were detained and forced to sign false confessions of panic-stirring. Link to article

How ‘war’ with coronavirus could lead to lasting government overreach Under war-like circumstances, history shows there is a very fine line between protecting citizens and eroding rights — and that line can be exploited or extended in times of great uncertainty.  link to article

The ease with which Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders have accepted the loss of liberty in their respective countries has been the saddest and most frightening development since the rise of totalitarianism in the early 20th century. Link to article

Los Angeles County , the most populous county in the United States, announced on Sept. 15 it would require proof of  COVID-19  vaccination at bars, nightclubs, breweries, lounges, and related businesses. The order will also require vaccine proof or a negative COVID-19 test for large outdoor events, including Los Angeles Rams, Chargers, and Dodgers games, said County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer to the Board of Supervisors... https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/los-angeles-county-to-mandate-covid-19-vaccine-passports-officials_3999372.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-15-3&mktids=e0c55e9df48ee198694606ea91b21e91&est=GE8MP2UGBwQQERgr%2FyEZUXEqWMFhzhCNKlCuWHrs4GgX%2BagekE%2B5oXVfEWlzZ2zXrUDFTLU%3D

The Biden administration banned the media from using drones to take pictures of a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint as tens of thousands of immigrants pour across the border. The Federal Aviation Administration, which is under the control of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg,  ordered  . . .  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-admin-bans-drones-from-photographing-immigration-crisis/

An international group of vaccine experts, including officials from the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and World Health Organization (WHO), says there’s no evidence to suggest that the general population needs COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. The authors warned that if booster shots are introduced too soon, they may cause more side effects in the general population, including myocarditis or Guillain-Barré syndrome. Should that occur, the researchers said, it would create even more problems with vaccine acceptance in the general population.. . .  https://www.theepochtimes.com/fda-leaders-other-scientists-say-most-people-dont-need-vaccine-boosters_3994852.html?utm_source=sharenewsnoe

The Chinese government under the guidance of President Xi Jinping has escalated the persecution of people of faith with the ‘sinicization’ campaign, or to re-create religion to better align with the CCP ideals . .  .  https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-is-sinicizing-christianity-other-faiths-to-align-them-to-its-ideology-chinese-american-pastor_3952105.html?utm_source=sharenewsnoe

One key prong of President Biden's plan to bankroll Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget plan is to monitor every inflow and outflow of an individual's bank account.  The proposal would require banks to report to the IRS every deposit and withdrawal from an account, including transactions from Venmo, PayPal, crypto exchanges and the like in an effort to fight tax evasion. The IRS would know how much money is in an individual's bank account in a given year, whether the individual earned income on that account and exactly how much was going in an and out.   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973671/Bidens-plan-let-IRS-SNOOP-bank-accounts.html

The  Los Angeles  Police Department has been collecting the social media profiles of anyone they talk to - whether they committed a  crime  or not - for years. The department also tracked social media posts with 'keywords' that were entirely related to left-wing movements, such as the hashtags #BLMLA, #sayhername and #f***donaldtrump. The revelations were detailed in documents released Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal nonprofit at New York University's School of Law.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9970801/LAPD-orders-officers-collect-social-media-civilian-interview-not-arrested.html#newcomment

A  Portland  State University professor who resigned in a scathing public letter in which he slammed the university for not allowing any type of thought that doesn't suit its liberal agenda https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9972935/Now-woke-factory-idiots-Outpouring-support-Portland-State-professor.html#comments

Sometimes, even in these increasingly absurd woke-ravaged cancel culture times, I still physically shudder at a particularly awful example of the way free speech is being annihilated at the altar of political correctness https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973427/PIERS-MORGAN-woke-destruction-great-educator-terrify-one-us.html

  So much for end-to-end encryption: WhatsApp and Facebook pays more than 1,000 workers to READ messages that are flagged as 'inappropriate' and even share them with the DOJ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966435/Facebook-hired-1-000-workers-examine-millions-pieces-content-WhatsApp.html?ito=email_share_article-top

  Australians will download an app on their cellphone that features facial recognition and geolocation. The South Australian government will randomly contact the user to check if they are at their approved quarantine location. Users will have 15 minutes to take a photo of their face. If the quarantining individual fails to reply within 15 minutes, a police officer will be sent to "check" on the person. https://www.theblaze.com/news/australia-home-quarantine-app

But that doesn’t mean this “third dimension” of government information is not a problem. America becomes less democratic when the $3 trillion executive branch uses its resources to tilt the debate in its favor.......But too often, the government uses its information machinery to do more than simply inform us about a policy. Sometimes, it tries to persuade us to adopt a particular position, regardless of its efficacy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/24/the-new-propaganda-how-the-american-government-is-trying-to-control-what-you-think/

China on Aug. 30  introduced  new rules that people under 18 can spend only three hours a week on video  games , effective Sept. 1. Minors are now required to verify their identity before logging on to play with time limits in place, said the Chinese regulator.

Supposedly a free-market China would drop its communist past to become a Westernized democracy such as Japan, South Korea or Taiwan. Once China fully joined the family of successful, law-abiding nations, it would empower Western freedoms and help create a stable international order.

In her August 21 letter to House Democrats (that reads like a missive from Karl Marx), Speaker Pelosi boasts that this unprecedented, big government spending package will finally deliver on the Democrats’ “transformative vision” for our country that is permanent and “life-changing” for all. Of course, her letter does not refer to the freedom, opportunity, and security that every hardworking American would be forced to surrender as the Left charges forward with its nightmare agenda.

The media in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany have reported that  BGI  Group, the Chinese genetic technology leader, has been working with the  Chinese Communist Party  (CCP) and military to identify and study the genetic characteristics of different populations. This has involved the genetic testing of millions of pregnant women from around the world.

But the U.S. withdrawal also presents Beijing’s leaders with an opportunity: to solidify their dominance in a region they consider their backyard and, even more, to play the role of hero by succeeding where Washington failed.

Naturalized Americans could have their citizenship revoked thanks to a computer program that searches for concerning activity - with broad categories including anything deemed 'derogatory'.

The Chinese regime has announced that, from September, students will be taught “ Xi Jinping  Thought” from primary school all the way to university—in a bid to “arm” their brains with Marxist belief and  communist  ideology.

Delta Air Lines is charging employees $200 on their health insurance premiums if they don't get the shot by Nov. 1.

All US service members must get their  Covid-19  vaccine as soon as possible 

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