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Emory Healthcare will fire employees who skip its flu vaccine requirement by mid-November. Workers must get the shot or an approved medical or religious exemption by Nov. 1 or face unpaid suspension. A Cleveland Clinic preprint found vaccinated employees had a 27% higher flu risk in 2024-2025. CDC estimates show flu vaccine effectiveness has ranged from 19% to 60% since 2009-10. Many healthcare workers are skipping flu shots as Moderna’s new mRNA vaccine arrives.

The United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Georgia have suspended or canceled Iranian airline flights in compliance with a U.S. sanctions campaign targeting Iranian civil aviation, according to reports published on 23 and 24 September. The disruptions followed a U.S. Treasury announcement of sweeping sanctions on all Iranian airliners and foreign companies doing business with them, officials said.

How to Become an Enemy of the State I have spent my adult life as a person of principle, and that single decision has made me an enemy of administrations, agencies and artificial institutions that demanded my obedience. I have watched the same people who cheered lockdowns pivot overnight to cheering wars, and I have watched the same talking heads who told us to “trust the science” suddenly discover skepticism the moment it became politically convenient.

Thailand Warns Israeli Nationals on Behavior Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow told Israeli Ambassador Alona Fisher-Kamm that visitors to Thailand must obey local laws and customs, according to a statement released after their meeting on Sept. 8, 2026. The remarks followed a series of incidents involving Israeli nationals that officials said stirred tensions in the Southeast Asian nation [1]. “Thailand is a country that welcomes tourists.

French President Emmanuel Macron has asked European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen to draft a new European Union law that would ban social media use for children under 15 across all member states, according to a report published by Reclaim The Net [1]. The request follows the French Constitutional Council’s Aug. 14 decision striking down Macron’s domestic under-15 social media ban as unconstitutional and “disproportionate” [2].

The AI Acceleration Paradox Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than anyone predicted, with breakthroughs landing weekly. But the real story is not about benchmark scores or clever algorithms. The central question is who gets to own that intelligence. I believe the most consequential battle of our time is not between humans and machines, but between centralized gatekeepers who want to license every thought and decentralized users who refuse to rent their own cognition.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for use by U.S. geographic naming services, according to the White House. The order directs the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service and does not carry authority over Canadian naming conventions.

The New War on Knowledge There is a war on knowledge unfolding right now, and the generals on the other side are not foreign dictators or hostile armies. They are the bureaucrats, corporate executives, and intelligence operatives of the Western establishment. The panic in their eyes is unmistakable as they realize that open source AI cannot be censored, surveilled, or controlled. Their fear is the clearest admission of their own weakness and a sign that we are winning.

A peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in Open Medicine surveyed 80 healthcare workers in Alberta, Canada, about their experiences with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. According to the paper, 82.5% of respondents expressed negative sentiments about the mandates, while 17.5% expressed positive sentiments. Respondents reported coercion, emotional distress, institutional betrayal, silencing and moral injury, the researchers wrote [1].

Report Details Push in 21 States A report published by Reclaim The Net documented that British organizations are advocating for age verification legislation in 21 U.S. states [1]. According to the report, these groups have coordinated with U.S. lawmakers and advocacy networks to propose laws requiring online platforms to verify users’ ages [1]. The effort targets social media services and websites that host adult content, with bills introduced or pending in legislatures across the country [1].