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More proof that the lockdown is a scam: 66% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Your are people who stayed at home Yesterday, I made a blog posted titled Here are 34 reasons why I’m against the COVID-19 lockdowns.Even though it’s just one day later, I already have something new to add to the list.A study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New York showed that 66% of them are people who stayed home.Forbes just reported:Majority Of New Coronavirus Cases In New York Are From People Staying At Home—Not Traveling Or WorkingMay 6, 2020New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shared initial survey results...

A conspiracy theory claims Bill Gates is plotting to use COVID-19 testing and a future vaccine to track people with microchips. The Gates Foundation has advocated for expanded testing and has funded vaccine research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed millions of dollars to research treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to spread across the globe. Those endeavors are now fueling a conspiracy theory that claims Bill Gates has plans to use the eventual vaccine to “track people.” That claim has circulated in conspiracy theory groups online over the last few weeks, but it recently...

President Trump has vetoed a resolution aimed at constraining his ability to take military action against Iran. In a statement Wednesday, Trump said he vetoed the Iran war powers resolution that “purported to direct me to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces in hostilities against Iran.” “This was a very insulting resolution, introduced by Democrats as part of a strategy to win an election on November 3 by dividing the Republican Party,” Trump added. “The few Republicans who voted for it played right into their hands.” “Congress should not have passed this resolution,” he concluded. Congress is not...

New York state in Mid-April decided to add “presumed” COVID-19 cases to its death toll, which put the state’s total at around 10,000 victims. < Another 3,700 new deaths were added to the revised death count, according to a report from The New York Times. But New York was not alone. Michigan also announced in April that they were adding another 65 “presumed” cases to their total coronavirus tally. In late April the Wolf administration in Pennsylvania was caught adding up to 269 fake deaths to the state totals on Tuesday. Unfortunately for the Democrat governor he got caught. This...

Colleges and universities around the country are proving to be easy prey to hackers with ransom demands. In Massachusetts, Cape Cod Community College was defrauded of $800,000 last year, while Colorado’s Regis University paid an undisclosed amount to regain access to their files after a ransomware attack—and still did not get access back. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that, once it infects a computer system, allows attackers to lock out victims until they pay a ransom to regain access. With budgets getting tighter for public and private colleges in the wake of the coronavirus, funding IT security could...

Shock! Horror! Arab TV Series Shows a Jewish Woman as Admirable MAY 6, 2020 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD The story is from GulfNews.com: Hayat Al Fahad has stirred up controversy once again — this time for her latest role as a Jewish woman living in Kuwait in the TV show, ‘Um Haroon’…. Now the Kuwaiti actress is back in the news, but this time, it’s for her role as Um Haroon in a new Ramadan TV series appearing on MBC1. The drama series tells the story of a “wise and popular physician in the 1940s, and her role in...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea stated outright this week that people are not permitted to gather for protests in public due to the coronavirus pandemic. The city leaders pointed to the need to maintain social distancing in order to prevent greater spread of COVID-19, stating that this takes precedence over people's rights to exercise their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly. "You're talking about some of the values we hold in the highest regard in this country and certainly in this city, the right for people to gather, the right to free speech and the right...

If a reputable polling outfit were to ask Americans what caused the current financial crisis on Wall Street, they would say the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. If Americans were asked in the same poll when the financial crisis on Wall Street started, they would tie it to outbreaks of the virus in the U.S. this year. But as the timeline below and the chart above clearly substantiate, the financial crisis on Wall Street began in earnest on September 17, 2019, almost four months before the first death from coronavirus anywhere in the world was reported in China on January 11, 2020...

The twelve apostles included "Simon, who is called Peter" (Matt. 10:2). Jesus can make an impulsive and vacillating Christian as stable as a rock. The first disciple Matthew's gospel names is "Simon, who is called Peter" (Matt. 10:2). He was a fisherman by trade but Jesus called him to be a fisher of men. John 1:40-42 records their first encounter: "One of the two who heard John [the Baptist] speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He found first his own brother Simon, and . . . brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, 'You...

The Ohio House passed amendments to limit Dr. Amy Acton's emergency powers as Health Director and it's unknown if the Senate will pass the House version. But, Governor Mike DeWine vowed to veto the bill if it came to his desk...

The Washington Post Wants You to Fast for Ramadan BY ROBERT SPENCER MAY 04, 2020 1:50 PM EST The far-Left anti-Trump propaganda organ masquerading as a news source and operating under the name the Washington Post on Thursday published an inspiring op-ed entitled “As American Muslims fast this Ramadan, maybe the rest of America should consider joining in.” The Post’s articles exhorting people to keep the Lenten fast or the Yom Kippur fast have not yet been published, but I’m sure that they will be when the appropriate times for them roll around again. Won’t they? In the meantime, I’ll...

RUSH: This guy, you know, he’s a joke. He’s a charlatan. He’s been sending out phony data as part of his models, and that data has been used by American health experts and officials to dictate American behavior. Now, we’re learning a lot more about this guy as the days go on. “The scientist whose advice prompted Boris Johnson to lock down Britain resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday night as The Telegraph can reveal he broke social distancing rules to meet his married lover.” The guy was having an affair! And he broke his own social distancing...

A previously unseen asteroid the size of a truck flew about 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers) over the Pacific Ocean on Monday, making it one of the closest passes by our planet on record. Astronomers had no notice of asteroid 2020 JJ's existence, as it was discovered using the Mt. Lemmon Survey in Arizona right around the time it reached its closest point to us. Had 2020 JJ actually struck Earth, most of it probably would have burned up in the atmosphere. In other words, this space rock wasn't any sort of existential threat, but it did fly closer than many...

In this day in which society is traveling at EXPONENTIAL speeds, man's EXPONENTIAL advances in technology, abounding resources and abundance for the majority of the common man have advanced EXPONENTIALLY! The majority of Americans today think that they have no need for the ETERNAL things that their Creator offers them in RIGHTEOUSNESS and have deceived themselves into believing that their dead works are sufficient for the redemption of their souls (Rom. 3:23, 6:23, 10:2-4, Eph. 2:8-9, Rev. 3:14-22) Today's EXPERIENTIAL advances have opened wide the door for apostate Christian Americans and the West to gorge themselves on their basest desires,...

Ramadan in Afghanistan: Taliban murders 17 civilians and wounds 49 during first week of holy month MAY 6, 2020 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “During Ramadan, both fasting and acts of charity are incumbent upon Muslims who are able to do so, in order to gain a clearer appreciation of human suffering.” — BD News “The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.” — Qaedat al-Jihad “Taliban Mount Attacks After Deal, Killing 17 During Ramadan,”...

RUSH: Meanwhile, you’re not gonna see this stat in the media today. What you’re seeing in the media today is an all-out effort at creating — in your mind — the apocalypse. They are going full tilt trying to convince you that the number of cases is multiplying geometrically, the number of deaths is multiplying geometrically, that all of these states opening up are irresponsible. Red state governors are gonna get you killed! It is the biggest… They’re in a full tilt effort here to try to get these governors to re-shut down the states that have opened. They are...

Coronavirus Outbreak Leaves 54 Dead At Medford Nursing Home More than 100 additional residents and dozens of employees have tested positive for the virus. By Alex Newman, Patch Staff May 5, 2020 11:01 am ET | Updated May 5, 2020 2:49 pm ET More than 50 residents of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center have died from the coronavirus. More than 50 residents of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center have died from the coronavirus. (Shutterstock) MEDFORD, MA — Dozens of residents of a single nursing home in Medford have died from the coronavirus. There have been 54 deaths attributed to the...

We have significant reservations about the effectiveness and wisdom of the Governor’s plan. At a minimum, the General Assembly needs to hold hearings on the plan, and the likely effects on the citizens of the State of Illinois. The group proposed questions that need to be answered by the Governor’s administration in public hearings: 1. Precisely who are the “experts” he refers to that are guiding the Governor’s COVID planning? 2. Who are the economic advisors that are a part of the Governor’s planning team? 3. Why is the Administration unwilling or unable to share basic source data for their...

Former Vice President Joe Biden says that if he is elected president the federal government will spend $20 million per year to create “Regional Sexual Assault Investigative Training Academies.” . . . “There is still a striking lack of investigative training for law enforcement and prosecutors in units dedicated to sex crimes despite the extreme complexities of sexual assault investigations,” says this section of Biden’s plan.

RUSH: A quick question. Are you a health care worker? Are you a nurse? Are you an EMT? Are you anybody who does anything in health care? Did you volunteer, for example, to go to New York during the peak period? Did you volunteer as a health care worker to go to New York to help out? Did you do more than was asked of you? Did you go above and beyond? Did you knowingly put yourself at greater risk than any of your fellow citizens by volunteering to go to New York during the peak reporting period of COVID-19...