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* Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be 66% effective at preventing mild and moderate infections, and 85% effective at preventing severe disease, in trial results the company announced on Friday. * It doesn't appear to be as effective as Moderna or Pfizer's mRNA vaccines, though there are big differences in how the shots were tested. * It also has the benefits of being cheap and relatively easy to manufacture and distribute. It only requires one shot in the arm. An experimental coronavirus vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is 66% effective at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19, according...

What sort of person travels a thousand miles to challenge the results of an election they didn’t even bother to vote in?...At least eight of the people who are now facing criminal charges for their involvement in the events at the Capitol did not vote in the November 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of voting records from the states where protestors were arrested and those states where public records show they have lived. They came from states around the country and ranged in age from 21 to 65...

Three billion people, around 40% of the world’s population, use online social media – and we’re spending an average of two hours every day sharing, liking, tweeting and updating on these platforms, according to some reports. That breaks down to around half a million tweets and Snapchat photos shared every minute.With social media playing such a big part in our lives, could we be sacrificing our mental health and well-being as well as our time? What does the evidence actually suggest? ...ANXIETY Researchers have looked at general anxiety provoked by social media, characterised by feelings of restlessness and worry, and...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Tyndall Air Force Base, FloridaTyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located 12 miles east of Panama City, Florida. The base was named in honor of World War I pilot 1st Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall. The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing (325 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC). In October 2018, Hurricane Michael caused catastrophic damage to the base.The 325th Fighter Wing’s primary mission is to provide a combat ready air dominance force, train F-22A Raptor pilots and maintenance personnel, and train...

Wells King is the Research Director for American Compass, an organization that seeks to push labor-friendly policies in the conservative movement. With 40 percent of union voters going for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, it is clear that a fresh look at unions and workers' power is in order. Sam Jacobs and Mr. King discuss woke-ism in labor unions, the free market as a tool rather than a principle and proper role of government in the current housing shortage. Click the link to listen to Wells King, Research Director of American Compass on the Resistance Libraty Podcast

About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, but no new cases have since been found. Authorities ordered a five-day lockdown of Perth after a security guard at a hotel used to quarantine people returning from overseas was found to have contracted the virus. The state government said 66 people have been deemed close contacts of the unidentified guard and none of those already tested were infected. "In total 13 close contacts have now tested negative...

After nearly a month since unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed in the Capitol, investigators have recommended no charges for Capitol police officer who fired the shots. However, we still don’t know why his name is kept under wraps. Far left CNN reported tonight: Investigators have recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a US Capitol Police officer in the shooting of a pro-Trump rioter who was killed during the insurrection, according to people familiar with the matter. The shooting of pro-Trump rioter, Ashli Babbitt, remains under investigation by the DC Metropolitan Police, the US Attorney’s...

More Americans have been given at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the virus as of Monday, Bloomberg reported. The Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker recorded that 26.5 million Americans had received at least the first dose of one of the vaccines as of Monday, marking a milestone in the vaccine rollout as global cases have fallen. Since the first positive U.S.-based case was detected a year ago, 26.2 million people in the country have tested positive for COVID-19. The vaccine rollout is the biggest vaccination campaign in history, with an average of 1.35 million people...

Democrats on Monday unveiled legislation to remove Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House budget and education committees. House Democratic leaders are threatening to move forward with the bill if Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t unilaterally yank Greene from the posts. The legislation, sponsored by former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), was introduced as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) privately lobbied McCarthy (R-Calif.). The two-page bill reads: “Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene should be removed from her committee assignments in light of conduct she has exhibited.” It doesn’t cite specific offenses to justify...

Judge Jeanine: Hello and welcome to “Justice.” I’m Judge Jeanine Pirro. Thanks for being with us tonight. Let’s get right to my open. The reason Americans don’t trust politicians is because they lie. New York governor Andrew Cuomo is a case in point. The attorney general from his own party tells us he underreported nursing home deaths by 50%. This wasn’t an accounting error, administrator. It was a cover-up. >> An uncaring political ploy. He knows he’s wrong and manipulates numbers so he can prevent being caught. Nursing home deaths skyrocket to 13,000. When the Covid pandemic hit. Cuomo uses...

A survey of residents in Shanghai, including people who are at “high risk” of contracting COVID-19, reveals that a low percentage of them are willing to take Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines, according to a set of internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times. The financial hub is currently experiencing a resurgence in cases, with some areas of the city going under full lockdown. Jing’an district is one of the main urban areas of Shanghai, with roughly 1.06 million permanent residents; 39 percent of them are over the age of 60. A set of January work reports from the Jing’an district’s health...

Rep. Liz Cheney, under fire from former President Donald Trump and his staunchest defenders, is picking up support from some influential Republicans as her allies close ranks and resist the effort to oust her from the third-ranking spot in House GOP leadership. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was the latest Republican to give her a boost, saying in a statement to CNN that she had "the courage" to act on her convictions in the aftermath of her vote to impeach Trump last month on a charge he incited the deadly insurrection that ransacked Capitol Hill on January 6....

A man whose January 2019 arrest was broadcast live in a "humiliating fashion" on the now-defunct TV reality show “Live PD” has sued Williamson County in federal court, claiming the incident left him with physical and emotional scars and that much of what happened was staged for ratings. The suit by Scott Phillip Lewis cited multiple practices of the Williamson County sheriff’s office and former Sheriff Robert Chody that were revealed through months of investigation by the American-Statesman. Those included a high-profile no-knock raid on a man’s home despite a chance to peacefully arrest him, hiring deputies with troubled pasts...

Pope Francis’ remade John Paul II institute defends Biden’s abortion record in Facebook postSaint John Paul II taught that Catholics can in no way defend a right to abortion.ROME, February 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The John Paul II Institute in Rome, recently gutted and remodeled by Pope Francis, has defended in a recent Facebook post U.S. President Joe Biden’s championing of legal abortion.The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences recently reposted on its Facebook page a Jan. 20 Huffington Post (Italian edition) article that emphasized what writer Maria Antonietta Calabrò called Biden’s “social Gospel” which,...

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $30 million in funding to Australia’s Lynas Corp to build a rare earth processing plant in Texas, as the nation continues to seek to break its reliance on Chinese imports of the critical minerals. The facility will be able to process light rare earth elements (LREE), which are not only widely used in consumer goods such as cellphones and electric car motors, but also critical to the production of next-generation fighter jets and precision-guided missiles. It’s not the first time Lynas, one of the few major non-Chinese rare earth miners, received federal funding...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, told podcast host Megyn Kelly that lockdowns have ineffectively addressed the concerns and danger COVID-19 poses to certain communities. “I’ve come to think of it as trickle-down epidemiology. We’ve used the lockdowns to protect the rich, whereas we essentially expose the — like in California for instance, it’s the poor areas that have had the high death rates from COVID. The lockdowns haven’t protected people living in places where there’s high poverty,” Bhattacharya said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “Minority populations, especially Hispanics, have...

The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Ronna Romney McDaniel, said in a new interview that she regrets letting former President Trump's lawyers, namely Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, spread unproven claims about the 2020 election from the organization's headquarters. Speaking with The New York Times, McDaniel indicated she thought it had been a mistake to allow Giuliani and Powell to make the claims about election rigging days after the vote at the RNC's headquarters in Washington, D.C. “When I saw some of the things Sidney was saying, without proof, I certainly was concerned it was happening in my...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands accused of violating federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers, according to stunning information obtained by NATIONAL FILE.CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. The study, “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective,” was authored by Henry Ealy, Michael McEvoy, Daniel Chong, John Nowicki , Monica Sava, Sandeep Gupta, David White, James Jordan , Daniel Simon, and Paul Anderson. (READ...

White House sources have informed Big League Politics that President Joe Biden has urged his political team to keep their distance from the Lincoln Project, following revelations that the organization’s founder has acted as a sexual predator upon men in politics for years. It’s unclear if there was an order to avoid the neoconservative group before a pedophilia scandal devastated the Lincoln Project’s reputation. The group’s founder, John Weaver, was disavowed by the organization following the revelation that he sexually harassed at least 21 young men and teenagers, including a boy as young as 14 years old. The Lincoln Project’s...

"La Grange" is a song by the American rock group ZZ Top, from their 1973 album Tres Hombres. One of ZZ Top's most successful songs, it was released as a single in 1973 and received extensive radio play, rising to No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974.ZZ Top - "La Grange" (1973)