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TIJUANA (Border Report) — COVID-19 cases in Mexican border cities such as Tijuana and Mexicali have continued on the upswing heading into the end of April and the beginning of May, indicating a third wave of contagions, as predicted, has begun to take shape. According to Baja California health officials, recent statistics show 16.5 out of every 100,000 residents now have the virus... According to Pérez Rico, the third COVID-19 wave in the state will intensify next week and into early May. The city of Tijuana has seen 3,566 COVID-19 related deaths since the start of the pandemic. Four people...

E-Waste CEO John Rollo recently had a job that is unusual for the head of a company that on paper is worth tens of millions of dollars: a patient transporter at a northern New Jersey hospital. Peter Coker Sr., a North Carolina businessman, is connected to both companies. Coker son Peter Jr. is chairman of the deli company, whose CEO is high school principal and wrestling coach Paul Morina. E-Waste’s stock, like that of deli owner Hometown International, has soared in the past year, also giving it market capitalization of more than $100 million earlier this month. This surge happened...

Alexei Navalny—Russia's most famous anti-corruption and pro-democracy campaigner—remains languishing in a penal colony east of Moscow, confined to the prison's hospital as his health deteriorates amid an ongoing hunger strike. International media coverage, sanctions and mass protests have failed to puncture the Kremlin's public indifference to the health of one of its most prominent critics. One doctor warned that Navalny could die at "any moment." But outside those prison walls, Moscow is still cracking down on his allies as they try to arrange fresh rallies. Some Navalny staff have gone into hiding, while others have been detained. Top aide Lyubov...

ransomnote: I'm frequently told that the Moderna Vaccines proved safe and effective in animal trials with monkeys. I'll explain why that's not true in post #1. Here's an article providing a description of the research.The mRNA vaccine co-developed by Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) protected both the upper and lower airways of non-human primates against SARS-CoV-2 infection.Rhesus macaques receiving low or high doses of mRNA-1273 vaccine (10 or 100 μg, two injections 4 weeks apart) were then challenged with the virus via both the nose and the lungs a month after the second injection....

Rising infection and hospitalization rates force Mexican border city to go into immediate lockdown. On Monday morning, El Paso city and county officials lauded vaccination efforts and spoke in hopeful terms about reaching herd immunity. Across the border a few hours later, Juarez announced a total shutdown of non-essential activities over the next two weekends due to a spike in COVID-19 cases and death and rising hospitalization rates. All non-essential businesses were to shut down at midnight Friday and reopen Monday at 6 a.m. The lockdown will again be effective on midnight April 30 through the morning of May 3....

Sly police are playing citizens around the country. Police departments around the country, primarily in large progressive metropolitan areas, are playing one up on their citizens. Police departments are only using their 3-5 year old or older police vehicles in the perpetual riot areas. Since they know the BLM and Antifa rioters will target their vehicles, they use the older ones to ensure that they will be destroyed. Some police departments have gone as far as to preposition them next to the stacks of bricks or Molotov cocktail stashes provided for the riots. Ordinarily those vehicles would not be replaced...

Former President George W. Bush told radio host Hugh Hewitt on April 22 that he is working with the Koch Network to help President Joe Biden pass an amnesty and cheap-labor bill through Congress. “We’ve got a coalition of like-minded people working this issue,” Bush told Never Trump Hewitt Thursday. Bush, whose poll rating dipped to 33 percent in 2008 after pushing amnesties in 2006 and 2007, continued: Now there hasn’t been interparty outreach, yet. But maybe it’s not quite ripe. My view is if the President is sincere about this, he ought to sit down with, you know, some...

The first day of an unprecedented recount of every ballot cast by Maricopa County voters during last year’s general election almost did not happen Friday. A court battle nearly stopped it. And, as the recount was starting, officials seemed to be figuring out rules and training on the fly. Later, the daily press briefings that were promised were placed on an indefinite hiatus. What was clear is that the 2.1 million ballots the Republican-controlled state Senate obtained through a subpoena are now fully in the custody of a Florida-based company called Cyber Ninjas. Rows of pallets piled high with boxes...

Religion Roundup: Encapsulated Events Signs of our time and prophesy in the news: — Biden proposal: Americans eat meat only once a month — Joe Biden on Friday pledged to cut the US’s carbon emissions at least 50% by 2030.Some of the climate requirements are going to mean big changes for Americans. Biden’s ambitious plan could mean Americans will be forced to cut 90% of red meat from their diets which equates to about one average-sized hamburger per month. - Biden: Americans cut meat by 90%Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: The Covid-19 pandemic is a fraud — Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, an American-trained...

Broward sheriff’s deputies are being told not to enforce Florida’s new anti-rioting law unless absolutely necessary. In those cases, they must run it up the chain of command before taking action...

The Republican senator Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, questioned the need for widespread Covid-19 vaccinations, saying in a radio interview “what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?” Johnson, who has no medical expertise or background, made the comments on Thursday during an interview with the conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna. Contrary to what medical experts advise, Johnson has said he doesn’t need to be vaccinated because he had Covid-19 in the fall. On Thursday, he went further, questioning why anyone would get vaccinated or worry about why others have not. Fear that Johnson & Johnson pause...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently made waves claiming that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are to blame for the volatility of insulin prices. It's a bold statement, to be sure. But here's the thing: the senator is absolutely right — and PolitiFact has confirmed as much. On January 31, 2021, PolitiFact partnered with The Daily Iowan to release a fact-check on Grassley's statement, ultimately providing the senator with its highest rating of "True" on the organization's Truth-O-Meter™. "With their complicated discount negotiations," PolitiFact concludes, PBMs play a role in driving upward the cost of insulin in America. One fact that may...

It's The banned that started the questions. 4 weeks into the '2 weeks to stop the spread', Drs Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi gave a 48 minute interview that started the ball rolling about the Wuhan virus, and questions we've never gotten answers to.

Pop history is littered with the albums that could’ve been, the albums we could’ve heard. Sometimes we call these “lost” albums, the works that never quite came into focus, that suggest some path not fully taken. Sometimes we simply call them “unreleased,” albums we know were supposed to exist and were supposed to materialize and yet were held back. A more aggressive term there could be “shelved,” albums seemingly complete and ready to be unveiled and subsequently met with a concrete decision that there was some reason they shouldn’t be. There are as many possibilities for what that “reason” might...

Dennis McGowan a recently retired Chief of Operations for the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office in Atlanta recently explained why he calls the SARS-CoV-2 death toll “a big lie.” He writes: “Death certificates are pretty uniform in their structure, and they call for strict accuracy in listing the relevant details. There are five critical lines... The first (top) line is “Immediate Cause of Death.” This is where the actual terminal event is recorded. This line is followed by three more, all labeled “Due To,” where contributors to the immediate cause, in declining order, are listed. An example of this structure...

The head of an elite private school in New York City privately admitted to a teacher that the institution is “demonizing white people for being born." The call between math teacher Paul Rossi, who was later relieved of his duties after publicly criticizing the school’s anti-racist orthodoxy, and George Davidson, head of Grace Church School, took place on March 2. The two discussed wokeness at the school and how it’s affecting white students. "Let me ask you something, George, because I think there's something very different about having a single experience where you make sense of it, right, and having...

The family of Ma'Khia Bryant remembered her as a "beautiful" and "sweet" girl and questioned why a Columbus, Ohio, officer shot her. Her mother, Paula Bryant said: "Ma'Khia was a sweet little girl. She didn't deserve what happened to her." Police said the video shows a girl, identified as Ma'Khia, trying to stab a person on the ground, as well as another person leaning against a car. Officer Reardon fires his weapon four times, and Ma'Khia falls to the ground, the video shows. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. "Ma'Khia was a good student, a good person, and did...

President Biden has nominated Montana environmental activist and Democrat operative Tracy Stone-Manning of Montana to head the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management. Stone-Manning got her start in environmental activism as the spokesperson for the mother of all radical organizations — Earth First. Only after entering politics did Stone-Manning claim she left the job because the monkey wrenchers were just too darn angry. Who knew that ecoterrorism and arson had a dark side? PeakNation™ will recall the monkey wrenching of Aspen’s natural gas pumping station over the Christmas holiday that left the resort in the cold for days. The culprit...

MSNBC's Tiffany Cross misled viewers today by cutting out a portion of remarks from Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd explaining the difference between a peaceful protest and a riot. Cross started the video with Judd pointing to a photo in his right hand, saying: "This is a riot. And this will get you locked up before quick in the State of Florida. Pay attention. We’ve got a new law, and we’re going to use it if you make us. ​​​​​" Cross then mocked the sheriff as a "Barney Fyfe reject." But Cross didn't mention the photo that was in...

The Pentagon has released new logistical details regarding the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Friday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had approved additional support to aid the withdrawal movement, which is slated to conclude by September 11.“He has approved some additional measures today,” Kirby said. “He has approved the extension of the USS Eisenhower to remain in the Central Command area of responsibility for a period of time. And he has approved the addition of some long-range bombers to be deployed to the region.”However, it isn’t just air and sea support that will be...