(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 12 things you need to know this Thursday – December 2, 2021

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Biden Administration Considering Forcing International Travelers, Including U.S. Citizens, to Quarantine – The Biden administration is considering a controversial proposal requiring international travelers, including United States citizens, to self-isolate for seven days, regardless of vaccination status or a negative coronavirus test.

Citing three federal public health officials, the Washington Post previewed the restrictions the Biden administration is considering imposing upon international travelers in the wake of the omicron variant. Notably the South African doctor who identified the new strain said the symptoms appear to be “extremely mild,”at least in one of her patients, who experienced body aches and pains, headache, and scratchy throat. – READ MORE

Report: Conservatives prepared to shut gov’t down unless Democrats defund Biden’s vaccine mandate – A handful of conservative lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are “privately plotting” to force a government shutdown this week to pressure Democrats to defund the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on private employers, according to Politico.

The news outlet, citing multiple anonymous Republican sources, reported Tuesday that the lawmakers plan to stall the approval of a continuing resolution to fund the government into early 2022 unless Democrats agree to deny money to enforce the mandate. – READ MORE

RINO Massachusetts Governor Considering Jab Passports That Could Be Used For All Sorts Of Things – Republican Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker admitted this week that he is considering implementing jab passports in his state.

In a new interview on Monday, Baker said that he wants to team up with other states to give people QR codes that will show that they have been dosed with an experimental shot against COVID-19. – READ MORE

San Diego student vaccine mandate temporarily blocked by Ninth Circuit – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction pending appeal against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) on Monday after a student-athlete sued the district for religious discrimination because of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

In September, the school board of the SDUSD voted in favor of requiring students aged 16 and up to be fully vaccinated against COVID by Dec. 20, which would require them to get their first dose by Monday. Anyone who failed to comply would be forced to attend school remotely. – READ MORE

Louisiana judge blocks nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers – A Louisiana U.S. district judge blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers Tuesday, issuing a nationwide injunction in another setback to President Joe Biden’s effort to require wide segments of the population to be vaccinated.

Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty’s decision follows an identical ruling Monday from Missouri U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp, but Schelp’s decision only covered 10 states. – READ MORE

COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors blocked in 3 states – Kentucky’s attorney general won a preliminary court order Tuesday to block President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccination mandate for federal government contractors and subcontractors.

The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove stops the mandate from taking effect in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. – READ MORE

Pelosi Staffer Mask Shames Republicans Hours Before Boss Spotted Maskless At Event – Earlier this evening, Breitbart News obtained photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi going maskless at a crowded event in DC, in violation of the venue’s instructions, President Biden’s guidelines, and, according to a tweet just a few hours before the event, the opinions of her own staffers.

Just under three hours before Breitbart News published the Pelosi photos, the Speaker’s deputy communications director, Robyn Patterson mocked Republicans for their opposition to masking requirements and mask mandates. – READ MORE

NYC opens drug consumption sites to ensure users receive clean needles, prevent overdoses – New York City has become the first in the U.S. to open its own supervised drug consumption sites in hopes of combating a growing number of overdose deaths.

The “Overdose Prevention Centers” that went online Tuesday, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office, are “safe places where people who use drugs can receive medical care and be connected to treatment and social services.” They will be co-located with “previously established syringe service providers”, which in 2018, distributed at least 4.5 million clean needles to drug users across the five boroughs. – READ MORE

Build Back Bummer: Biden’s Spending Spree Includes a Kill Switch for Your Car –Remember the good ol’ days of the Affordable Care Act? Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to learn what was in it? Yeah, that was great, wasn’t it? Good times.

Well, hold on to your seatbelts, sports fans. Biden’s infrastructure bill promises to be an even bigger piñata filled with objects usually found in your cat’s litterbox. According to an op-ed by former Georgia Representative Bob Barr, the package contains a well-hidden item: kill switches in cars. – READ MORE

Amazon’s Black Friday Weekend Sales Soar As Other Retailers Struggle – Amazon experienced a “record-breaking” Thanksgiving weekend as other retailers struggled.

According to a blog post from the company, the period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw high degrees of consumer activity in categories such as toys, apparel, and electronics – READ MORE

US Could Run Out Of Cash In Late December, CBO Warns – After Janet Yellen warned markets a month and a half ago that the US could run out of cash as soon as December 15, analysts did some math and found that this warning seems to be a “conservative estimate” with Goldman estimating that the Treasury can probably maintain at least a $50BN cash balance — the minimum balance that we would expect the Treasury to use to project its deadline — until early January, though a higher deficit scenario would take the Treasury below this around Dec. 15.

In other words, if Yellen was trying to instill a sense of urgency (in hopes that Republicans will fold again and give Democrats carte blanche to hike the debt ceiling to some even bigger ridiculous number), it wasn’t working. So to spark at least a little panic and get politicians to move, moments ago the CBO said in a statement that if the debt limit remained unchanged and if the Treasury transferred $118 billion to the Highway Trust Fund on December 15, as currently planned, the Treasury would most likely run out of cash before the end of December. – READ MORE

Jeffrey Epstein’s pilot reveals names of Hollywood stars who flew on his plane – Jeffrey Epstein’s former pilot Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. took the stand Tuesday in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial.

Visoski, who worked for the late convicted sex offender between 1991 and 2019, was questioned by Maxwell’s defense attorney and revealed a laundry list of celebrities who were allegedly guests on Epstein’s private plane. – READ MORE