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QR Code Required to Enter DC Whole Foods and May Be Used to Implement Social Credit System
Customers at a Whole Foods in DC are required to use a QR code to enter the store. A sign advises customers that “cameras and sensors register what you take and put back” and payment can be made without going through checkout. Buying groceries can be linked to a social credit score similar to China’s system.

Court Says Biden Cannot Enforce Vaccine Mandates For Federal Contractors
A 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that The Biden Administration cannot enforce a COVID vaccine mandate on federal contractors. The court wrote: “The President’s use of procurement regulations to reach through an employing contractor to force obligations on individual employees is truly unprecedented.”

New Zealand Tells Public to Report Political Dissidents as “Terrorists”
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service put out a bulletin called ‘Know the Signs’ to identify family and friends as potential terrorists. Potential terrorists used to be motivated by “their white identity or their faith” but in the past 6 months, a third group has emerged, those motivated by politics.




Authorities Recommend Return of Face Masks to Combat ‘Tripledemic’ of COVID, Flu and RSV
The CDC cannot impose mask mandates, but its recommendations influence local governments and schools. Los Angeles is reconsidering a mask mandate; we reported in July that LA County dropped its planned masked mandate over the summer because the cities of Long Beach and Pasadena announced that they would not enforce it.

