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One-time Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo has been named to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) top communications position, Caputo told Politico on Wednesday. “I am honored to serve the President to the best of my abilities in this time of crisis and, in so doing, the American people,” Caputo, who will join the department as assistant secretary of HHS for public affairs, told the publication. The hire comes as the White House has grown suspicious of HHS Secretary Alex Azar, believing him to have portrayed himself to the press as attempting in vain in January to sound...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ PLACING A TORPEDO A Marine places a Bangalore torpedo under concertina wire during a demolition training range in Southwest Asia, March 9, 2016. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Akeel Austin Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. SOARING ANGELS The Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, perform a parade maneuver during the Naval Air Facility El Centro Airshow in El Centro, CA, March 12, 2016. The squadron, celebrating its...

Miami University in Ohio has announced that it will close its Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute in June. Amid increased concerns over Chinese money in American universities, Miami University's decision was particularly sudden, citing funding concerns. With the exception of senior staff, most of the Institute’s staffers are paid by the Chinese government, according to the Miami Student.

Newly declassified footnotes from a government report, first obtained by CBS News, show that despite multiple warnings about Russian targeting and the potential for disinformation, the FBI relied on the controversial Steele dossier to secure surveillance warrants for a Trump campaign aide before and after the 2016 election. Among the revelations, a 2017 U.S. intelligence community report indicated that two individuals "affiliated" with Russian intelligence knew of former British spy Christopher Steele's "election investigation" in early July 2016, three months before the FBI would begin citing the dossier. "..[A]n early June 2017 USIC (US Intelligence Community) report indicated that two...

The government of Taiwan published a letter, Fox News reported on Monday, sent to officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) in December warning of “atypical pneumonia” in China – evidence, Taipei says, that the WHO had reason to believe the Chinese coronavirus was contagious. On January 14, weeks after Taiwan’s health authorities sent the email, the WHO published a message on Twitter citing Communist Party officials claiming that the coronavirus was not transmissible among human beings. The virus has since been proven to be so contagious that most of the world’s nations have forced entire populations into lockdown, threatening...

Paris, France, Apr 14, 2020 / 11:01 pm (CNA).- For Fr. Pierre Amar, Notre-Dame de Paris has always been a masterpiece, “the very example of supreme beauty,” but now the Marian cathedral is also “a great burnt victim.” One year after the fire destroyed much of the cathedral’s roof and spire, the French priest shared what the cathedral of Paris has meant and continues to mean for Catholics in France as the country again faces a crisis. “Notre-Dame is a great lady of history. She has lived through centuries, eras, perils, and war. She has sustained the nation in its...

Chicago's Blase Cupich bashes Catholic contender for US SenateCHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Chicago's archbishop is sidelining prayer while bashing the piety of the Catholic challenger to so-called Catholic, pro-abortion politician Sen. Dick Durban (D-Ill.). Cardinal Blase Cupich brushed aside prayer when asked on Thursday about those like Republican Senate candidate Mark Curran, who are calling on the Catholic Church to safely dispense the sacraments amidst the pandemic scare. "Religion is not magic where we just say prayers and think things are going to change," said Cupich. "God gave us a brain and the gift of intelligence and we have to use...

Webb reviews the contract and talks the connections. Says that China did the studies. Contract 3.7 million to Wuhan for the for USAID (Program named PREDICT) to get the bats and do the bio work. This report puts Fauci in the middle of this. So when can we have a real reporter ask Dr Fauci to explain what his Project Predict was about and if it caused this outbreak? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5WRNQOcGg

On Tuesday’s briefing, Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Gakharia addressed the question that has been formulating these days with the Orthodox Easter coming up this Sunday, saying that “the churches will not be closed.” “I personally hope our citizens will show their wisdom. Why? Because enforcing the law and protecting public health is a direct obligation of the State, just like, for many of our respected believer citizens it is an existential issue to not close the Church and keep it functioning,” noted Gakharia. That being said, the Prime Minister still encouraged believers to stay home and not “force the...

An Ontario recycling company is reminding residents to use some discretion when getting rid of unwanted items after someone attempted to recycle a sword. The Bluewater Recycling Association in South Huron said in a Facebook post titled "Most Unwanted -- April Edition" that someone put a metal sword into a "blue box" recycling bin. The post said the sword "was found before going through our machinery or it could have caused expensive damage to our machines and serious health and safety issues for our employees." The association said the sword's former owner might have been better off turning the weapon...

Churches in Moscow and throughout the Moscow Province are to move to a “skeleton crew” regime for one week, according to a circular from His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysiy of Voskresensk, the First Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, issued on Saturday, April 11. From April 13 to 19, the feast of Holy Pascha, only clergy, choir members, altar servers, those responsible for livestreaming services, and guards are allowed on the territory of churches in the whole of the Moscow Province. Moscow has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks, Met. Dionysiy notes, and doctors...

To anyone who missed it. Microsoft released an ad featuring celebrity-cult 'artist' Marina Abramovic. They quickly regretted it. First they closed the comments. They then set the video to private. See here: Mircosoft Marina Abramovic Ad Here is the video with commentary: Microsoft Video of Satanist Marina Abramovic On Good Friday (5 mins)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill – Illinois is reporting 1,346 new cases over the last 24 hours and 80 additional deaths due to COVID-19. This brings the state totals to 24,593 cases and 948 deaths. Governor J.B. Pritzker focused much of his daily briefing on the financial impact of COVID-19 on the state. He said, “You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to see that the virus is going to hit our budget hard.” Illinois budget experts estimate that there will be a $2.7 billion shortfall of revenues for the rest of fiscal year 2020 and a $4.6 billion dollar shortfall for the...

Here somewhere in a sleepy town in picturesque France, a new nefarious activity is occurring as a result of the Coronavirus “pandemic.” All of a sudden, restaurants and shops are coming up destroyed by fire. In the night from Saturday to Sunday (Right Wire Report reporter), a fire damaged three businesses located at the port in this sleepy town. Two restaurants in another part of the town were also affected....

... Granting grocery store workers a temporary designation of first responder or emergency personnel would "ensure these frontline workers have priority access to personal protection equipment like masks and gloves," the statement reads. The groups say this is not just about employees – it's about protecting the customers they serve and our nation's food supply in general. First responders like health care workers are lacking the necessary PPE, so government officials have been working to ensure the equipment gets to those who need it the most and that supplies on conserved. ...

The report, signed by Vice President Joe Biden who oversees how stimulus money is spent, stressed the depth of the crisis confronting Obama when he took office 13 months ago, as the President constantly reminds Americans in his speeches. But it also highlighted Obama’s challenge of trying to cut a 9.7 percent jobless rate that has fueled voter discontent. The report said the package of stimulus spending and tax cuts “clearly halted an economic freefall.” Obama will get the document at his economic intelligence briefing on Wednesday and he will speak about the economy to mark the anniversary of his...

We've seen so many great videos over the past month or so, but we dare say... this may be the best. You remember New York's famous "Pizza Rat"? Well, move over... it's time to meet the "Pizza Groundhog!" He's just munching away completely unfazed by Action News in Philadelphia viewer Kristin Chalela Bagnell or her two dogs. Kristin captured the little, or not so little guy, outside her home in Philadelphia's Brewerytown section. Kristin tells our sister station Action News the groundhog sat there for more than an hour, just casually munching away on that piece of pizza with no...

EXCLUSIVE: COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. This may be the "costliest government coverup of all time," one of the sources said. The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population...

The Following Data/Statistics came from the CDC and Johns Hopkins websites: Corona-USA: 601k confirmed cases, 183 people/100k people has a confirmed case, 21 hospitalization/100k people, and 8 deaths/100k people. 2018 Flu: 48.8M cases, 14,869 people/100k had it, 150 hospitalizations/100k people, and 24 deaths/100k people. If you assume the latest projections of +/-60,000 deaths, many of which may have very well died of a non-Corona Virus strand of the Flu, that still puts the US on par with a standard flu season. Mitigation has lowered the numbers on Corona some, but it hasn't by that much. Where was the panic over...

The first of these programs is the ever-chaotic Paycheck Protection Program, the $349 billion rescue effort that has commanded most of the public’s attention on this front. It provides businesses with low-interest loans to cover payroll and some other expenses like rent and utilities, which the government will forgive as long as the borrower doesn’t lay off its workers.