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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon that Americans were using the “wrong” forms of transportation — a problem he said President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would fix. Buttigieg also claimed that some Americans have no access to transportation at all. He added that Americans would once again be “challenged” to expand their ideas about infrastructure, which he said went far beyond roads and bridges. He said: Americans are spending too much of their money on transportation in the wrong ways, or don’t have access to it at all. And the...

In collaboration with Deloitte The COVID-19 crisis has exposed an enduring silent epidemic and greatly accelerated the need for a properly funded and regulated global mental health ecosystem. Disruptive technologies – such as artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), digital reality (DR), blockchain and the cloud – offer a tremendous opportunity to improve global mental health systems, making them more affordable and more easily scaled, particularly in countries where people lack adequate access to such services. Yet as well as offering breakthrough solutions, these technologies also have the potential for misuse and mistreatment. The primary purpose of this toolkit is...

Ex-Pfizer Vice-President, Dr. Michael Yeadon, recently spoke with LifeSiteNews where he took on the COVID-19 injection agency, calling it “demonstrably false” and fraught with sinister corruption that could lead to unimaginable “totalitarianism” and mass death events within 2 years. There is “no possibility” current variants of COVID-19 will escape immunity. It is “just a lie.” Yet, governments around the world are repeating this lie, indicating that we are witnessing not just “convergent opportunism,” but a “conspiracy.” Meanwhile media outlets and Big Tech platforms are committed to the same propaganda and the censorship of the truth. Pharmaceutical companies have a......

VIDEOA lot of you are now considering an alternative to Woke Coke. In this video I perform a direct taste test of Diet Woke Coke versus Diet Sam's Cola.

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MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes reached out to Twitter to find out if all the hype about this Hunter Biden laptop is really a thing. "So, like, did we ever find out the actual deal with the Hunter laptop?" Hayes asked."I mean, maybe the wildly improbably [sic] story about it was ...true?" He asked. "or maybe it was a cover story for a hack, but do we know?"Twitter was quick to point out that yes, we DO know. So, like, did we ever find out the actual deal with the Hunter laptop? I mean, maybe the wildly improbably story about it...

"How does Ivermectin work on COVID-19? For the SARS-CoV-2 virus to make you sick, it has to first infect your cells. Then while inside the cell, the virus makes heaps of copies of itself, so it can spread around your body. The virus also has ways of reducing the way your body fights the infection. During the infection of the cell, some viral proteins go into the cell nucleus, and from here they can decrease the body’s ability to fight the virus, which means the infection can get worse. To get into the nucleus the viral proteins need to bind...

WASHINGTON (AP) — From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control. In an urgent phone call to the acting defense secretary, he issued a startling demand. “Clear the Capitol,” Pence said. Elsewhere in the building, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were making a similarly dire appeal to military leaders, asking the Army to deploy the National Guard. These new details about the deadly riot are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal...

Very few people would guess this fact, considering that every day we are bombarded with talking points about the existential threat of climate change caused by humans and oil. Every time we get a major storm, a flood, a drought, or fires, we are told the lie that it is the worst it has ever been as they push the agenda for more government control and to stop using oil.

Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine rollout hit several unfortunate snags this week — some far worse than others. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that 62 million of the company's vaccine doses must be checked for contamination, following an error at a Maryland manufacturing plant that already ruined 15 million doses. The plant's workers accidentally mixed up some vaccine ingredients last month. Then a vaccination site in Colorado, three sites in North Carolina, and one in Georgia all temporarily stopped administering Johnson & Johnson's shot after about 45 people in total experienced minor adverse reactions involving nausea, dizziness, fainting,...

Well over half of the U.S. Marines at one particular base have declined to take the Covid vaccine. This is a sharp difference from the 40% average we’re seeing among all Marines. At Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the rate of soldiers declining to take the Covid vaccine is striking. Out of 26,400 who have been offered the vaccine so far, 15,100 have opted out.For the record, I will not be taking the vaccine. This is important to understand because I will be quoting an article from CNN which portrays the Marines declining the vaccine as somehow backwards. I do...

April 10, 2021 Easter SaturdayAltar of the Cathedral of PisaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingActs 4:13-21 ©We cannot promise to stop proclaiming what we have seen and heardThe rulers, elders and scribes were astonished at the assurance shown by Peter and John, considering they were uneducated laymen; and they recognised them as associates of Jesus; but when they saw the man who had been cured standing by their side, they could find no answer. So they ordered them to stand outside while the Sanhedrin had a private discussion. ‘What are we going to do with these men?’ they asked. ‘It...

The Aspen Institute Commission on Information (AICI) has been tasked with launching an effort to eliminate "misinformation" and "disinformation" from the internet, and none other than billionaire eugenicists Bill Gates and George Soros are funding the operation. According to reports, numerous key personalities from media, business and government are also on board with the project, which aims to stop all questioning of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccines," fraudulent elections, and other potential show-stoppers to the globalist agenda. Katie Couric, a fake news icon, is a co-chair of AICI, as is Rashad Robinson, the CEO of the far-left activist group Color of...

Republicans lawmakers urged the Biden administration to issue a new emergency authorization allowing health officials to give only a single dose of vaccines developed by Moderna and a Pfizer-BioNTech partnership “until all vulnerable and essential populations are inoculated, and more vaccine doses become available.” Their calls, however, largely fell on deaf ears, particularly in February and early March, when U.S. case rates were sharply down from their peak of roughly 250,000 in January. Tony Fauci, the country’s chief infectious diseases researcher, has argued that there isn’t solid evidence to back a delayed-dose strategy. Even if an initial first dose gives...

Fox News anchor Sandra Smith criticized New York City for driving earners out during a Friday segment of “Outnumbered.” Smith noted that while many businesses, primarily restaurants, remained shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, taxes were still rising on top earners. Coupled with dramatic spikes in crime rates, she said many who could afford to leave the city might do so... For anybody who has been in New York City during the pandemic up ’til now, it is, I mean, we sound like a broken record talking about it but businesses are boarded up restaurants are closed, crime is spiking....

Elon Musk's startup devoted to meshing brains with computers was closer to its dream on Friday, having gotten a monkey to play video game Pong using only its mind.Musk has long contended that merging minds with machines is vital if people are going to avoid being outpaced by artificial intelligence.A video posted on YouTube by the entrepreneur's Neuralink startup showed a macaque monkey named "Pager" playing Pong by essentially using thought to move paddles that bounce digital balls back and forth on screen."To control his paddle, Pager simply thinks about moving his hand up or down," said a voice narrating...

(The Biggest Money-Laundering Organization in the World)(Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal)(Obama and Biden speak often, but what they discuss ‘is no one’s business’)[snip]According to Saudi Arabian royalty sources, 20 percent of Clinton’s Presidential campaign cash comes from Saudi Arabia. This is, of course, illegal, but it is not illegal for foreign countries to contribute to charitable foundations. It is almost invisible, if the foreign money goes through a foreign Foundation, i.e. Canadian, and then to the Clinton Foundation. This is an effective but still illegal loophole to protect the names of donors and sources.

"Some of these birds did not live a happy life. They were kept to produce feathers and their feathers were plucked out as soon as they grew in."...In total, at least six species of parrots originally recovered from five of the desert's archaeological sites were studied in the research, with the remains variously dating from between 1100 to 1450..."The feathers of tropical birds were one of the most significant symbols of economic, social, and sacred status in the pre-Columbian Americas," the authors write in their study."In the Andes, finely produced clothing and textiles containing multicolored feathers of tropical parrots materialized...

OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend timing of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months after the first, but says most Canadians will probably only wait half that long. The panel is also keeping an eye on the latest reports, released Wednesday in Europe and the United Kingdom, on Oxford-AstraZeneca’s vaccine and the risk of blood clots. “We made the decision out of an abundance of caution, while further investigations were ongoing,” said Dr. Shelley Deeks, the vice-chair of NACI. “So we will now look at the new...

The Biden administration's vaccine passport scheme is just the teeny-tiny tip of a massive privacy invasion iceberg. A year ago this week, I began chronicling the worldwide weaponization of COVID-19 by big government and big business to trace and track the health data of untold hundreds of millions of human beings. Let's review.In March 2020, Singapore unleashed a Bluetooth app called "TraceTogether" on Google Play and the Apple Store to track people who tested positive for coronavirus and notify others through their cellphones. For those who argue that participation is completely "voluntary," bear in mind that Singapore functions as a...