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Guidance on How To Request a Religious Exemption for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace

  FILE- In this Feb. 2, 2021 file photo, Tyson Foods team members receive COVID-19 vaccines from health officials at the Wilkesboro, North Carolina, facility. Tyson Foods will require all of its U.S. employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming one of the first major employers of frontline workers to do so amid a resurgence of the virus. Tyson, one of the world’s largest food companies, announced Tuesday, Aug. 3, that members of its leadership team must be vaccinated by Sept. 24 and the rest of its office workers by Oct. 1. (Melissa Melvin/AP Images for Tyson Foods File) Guidance on How To Request a Religious Exemption for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace by aletho Rutherford Institute | August 13, 2021 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to concerns from employees in both the public and private sector about workplace requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines and a desire to express their religious objections to such requirements, The Rutherford Institute has issue...

National Project

An expressive image of the homeland, citizenship and the national project from the Google search engine.   National Project A project is a set of measures implemented by an organization or an individual in a coordinated manner with the aim of achieving a national interest related to national construction or political stability. These procedures are linked to each other as a sequential package that directly affects the citizens of the state. The national project is used in opposition to the influence of foreign powers on political attitudes and decisions. The idea of ​​a national project, in its broadest sense, refers to the national initiative of the state that is implemented in all parts of the state or the goals that states aspire to reach in all regions.  The national project means the measures, plans and strategies of the government or its proposals to achieve the interests and needs of all residents, regardless of foreign pressures, so the political program takes into acc...

Russia pushing Jan. 6 propaganda to undermine Biden and help GOP win midterm elections: Intel reports

 Russia pushing Jan. 6 propaganda to undermine Biden and help GOP win midterm elections: Intel reports Travis Gettys Russia is already attempting to interfere with the 2022 midterm elections -- and their efforts have grown more sophisticated since 2016, according to intelligence reports delivered to the Biden administration. President Joe Biden two weeks ago publicly called those operations "a pure violation of our sovereignty," but sources provided further detail about those efforts to CNN. "There's definitely a spike in activity around elections — they do take an interest in down-ballot races — but the activity is sustained," said Emily Harding, the deputy staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee until this spring. "It never really stopped, and we should not be linking our attention or efforts to the election cycle, because they're not." One person familiar with the matter said intelligence reports show Russian operatives were sowing ...

Attorney asks Retraction Watch to remove post because client has lost out on opportunities

  Attorney asks Retraction Watch to remove post because client has lost out on opportunities A cancer researcher once involved in a federal research integrity probe has repeatedly been denied funding and other sources of income, according to his attorney, who blamed our coverage of the case for the scientist’s continuing woes and asked us to remove a post.   Our coverage of the work of Sam W. Lee goes back to 2013. But it was our reporting in April 2019 that Lee — once a member of the Harvard faculty — was the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Office of Research Integrity that was the subject of the attorney. ORI has yet to announce a conclusion in its inquiry, which appears to have reached a finding before we posted on the matter. He has at least five retractions — including two that appeared after April 2019 — and two expressions of concern.  One of those expressions of concern was for a 2000 paper in Molecular and Cellular Biology titled “Overexpression of K...

Why is child marriage legal in the West? It's the one type of slavery America ignores BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI

  Why is child marriage legal in the West? It's the one type of slavery America ignores BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI Ayaan Hirsi Ali  is an UnHerd columnist. She is also a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of  The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast . Her new book is  Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights . Ayaan “New York Officially Bans Child Marriage, Only Sixth State in the U.S. to do so.” You might picture this headline on a yellowing newspaper in the archives of a public library. But in actual fact it appeared online, less than a month ago. And yes, you read it correctly. New York is only the sixth American state to ban child marriage, meaning there is still a legal pathway to marrying a minor in 44 states. Child marriage is merely a subset of the wider problem of forced marriage, which is staggering in scale. In 2016, the International Labour Organization found that “15.4 million people were li...

Can There Be Another Prophet Like Moses?- Dr.Jonathan Stökl

  Study for the figure of Moses. Artist: Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam 1730–37. Metmuseum.org Can There Be Another Prophet Like Moses? Dr.Jonathan Stökl Deuteronomy introduces the possibility of future Moses-like prophets who will continue to instruct the Israelites how to follow YHWH’s commandments. At the same time, it makes the existence of such a prophet virtually impossible. Post-Mosaic Prophecy The book of Deuteronomy has Moses presenting YHWH’s torah, i.e., laws and teachings, to the Israelites. At one point, Moses assures the Israelites that any future communication from YHWH after his death would come to Israel in the same way, namely, from the mouth of a prophet like Moses: דברים יח:טו נָבִיא מִקִּרְבְּךָ מֵאַחֶיךָ כָּמֹנִי יָקִים לְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֵלָיו תִּשְׁמָעוּן. Deut 18:15 YHWH your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed.[1] Moses continues by reminding Israel that from the very beginning—namely from Mt. Horeb—...

Against a European Civilization: Narratives About the European Union- ROSA BALFOUR

  Against a European Civilization: Narratives About the European Union ROSA BALFOUR Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. APRIL 06, 2021 Summary:  Branding Europe as a unique civilization undermines the EU’s attractiveness to the rest of the world. Europe is better served by reckoning with its colonial history and underlining the universality of human rights. Related Media and Tools There is more than one narrative about the European Union. There are—among others—that of a benign force bringing peace and prosperity to the war-devastated continent, that of a promoter of unfettered neoliberalism and austerity, and that of a protector of the nation-state en route toward building a European federation. These days much rhetoric about it also embraces its presumed civilizational character. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has been the most rhetorical and prolific among European...