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Two individuals can be regarded as contrasting illustrations of the good and the bad of human beings. At the top is the exotic Black Venus, Josephine Baker, the American-born French entertainer who won the hearts of Paris and then became a French resistance fighter. At the bottom is Walter Duranty, one of Stalin’s useful idiots, who was the greatest journalist liar of his generation, the model of journalistic mendacity. On Baker’s birthday, June 3, a petition was signed by thousands of French citizens for her to be buried in the Pantheon in Paris, an honor reserved for the most distinguished...

WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left as a beacon of truth in an administration that badly mismanaged the pandemic and villainized by the right as a misguided, spotlight-seeking bureaucrat seeking to undermine former President Donald Trump. But with the release of a trove of Fauci’s emails this week, Republicans’ attacks on the nation’s top government infectious-diseases expert have gone into overdrive. On conservative news channels, Fauci — who now serves as President Joe Biden’s pandemic adviser — has been pilloried as a liar who...

BALTIMORE — Police arrested two teenagers and an 18-year-old man in connection with the killing of a man from Israel who was killed while visiting Baltimore.Efraim Gordon, 31, was shot and killed on May 3, in the 3700 block of Fords Lane in northwest Baltimore, police said. Family and friends said Gordon was visiting from Israel to attend his cousin's wedding.City police said Friday evening that detectives arrested a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy and William Clinton III, 18, all of Baltimore.

As promised, here are my antibody test results. Link is to the test description, not my test. I'll paste my test results in the first comment. I had J&J on the 19th and had blood drawn at Quest yesterday (16 days later). My baseline test in late April was also negative.

The sudden collapse of the COVID-19 animal-to-human transmission theory is just one of many false narratives foisted upon We the People by our legacy Corporate Media with the aid of others in a cabal as reported by Scott McKay in The American Spectator: . . . the Narrative Wall has come down in a manner metaphorically quite similar to what happened to the civil infrastructure in Jericho, we can see just how devoid of merit is the American mainstream media. For an entire year these people, aided by the totalitarians who run the Big Tech social media sites, . ....

For many people, Tom Hanks may be the most trusted person in America. The Hollywood star, born in Concord and raised in Oakland, has become more outspoken recently regarding societal issues, imploring Americans to wear masks following his own COVID-19 diagnosis and hosting Joe Biden's inauguration day TV special. Today, he continued that spirit of social engagement with a New York Times op-ed deploring the lack of education surrounding the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the essay, Hanks recounts his upbringing in Oakland, commenting on both the city's diversity and integration, as well as the polarization and division. He notes that...

Attorneys representing the Muriel Bowser administration’s police force in Washington, D.C., made what should be a stunning admission in federal court last week. According to a report from WUSA-TV, a leading source of local news for the District of Columbia, “An attorney for DC Police said in court, for the first time, that the department did indeed use tear gas on protesters around Lafayette Square Park last June.” “The curfew, violence of past nights, chaos created by federal defendants, discharge of tear gas in that direction was not unreasonable,” lawyer Richard Sobiecki said. This admission is noteworthy because the Metropolitan...

Washington (AFP) - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world. Here is a look at the discovery and the fight against the deadly condition. - 1981: First alert - In June 1981 US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men from California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others. It is the first alert about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...

As the media begin to allow the truth to come out about the origins of the China-made, Fauci-approved COVID-19 virus, it has become clear that our government and our media lied about it early on. The media fear porn was so excessive that it was obvious that something evil was afoot. Government and doctors alike told everyone to stay home and isolate themselves for months on end, leading to untold depression, suicides, and other health problems. The near uniform condemning of early treatment options for COVID-19 with HCQ protocol or ivermectin was strange. Never before had doctors refused to see...

America's military veterans can no longer sit on the sidelines. America's military veterans can no longer sit on the sidelines when there is a well funded, ongoing cultural and political war being waged to turn America into a Marxist, communist totalitarian state. It truly is time for America's over 20 million veterans and numerous veterans' organizations to become actively engaged and help to defeat the "forces of darkness" fighting America's constitution, republic, and way of life. America's veteran organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, and numerous other veterans organizations must become active...

An exclusive report about the federal government’s machinations to compartmentalize a high-level defector suggests that they are. A lot of people have been wondering why, suddenly, the leftist establishment is embracing the idea that COVID came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which is tied to the Chinese military) after denying the possibility for so long. The answer may lie in the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency has for months been debriefing a high-level Chinese Communist Party defector – but withheld the information from other agencies until recently because of fears that those agencies are compromised. In other words,...

Yangon (AFP) - At makeshift factories hidden in Myanmar's jungle, locals who have formed self-defence groups make rifles to take the fight to the military junta, but their homemade weapons don't always hit the mark. Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February, accusing it of fraud during 2020 elections. Several communities across Myanmar -- especially in townships that have seen a high death toll at the hands of police -- have formed local "defence forces". At one workshop in Kayah state near the Thai border, an amateur...

If we’ve learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s the make-or-break importance of solid, up-to-date scientific information – and the regulatory flexibility necessary to respond to new information quickly. At least with some aspects of Covid prevention and treatment, “follow the science” became the guiding mantra, as sustained inquiry into the coronavirus progressed at warp-speed, leading to scientific breakthroughs and three vaccines in only months, rather than the normal years or even decades. However, related research also confirmed the truth that a healthy diet is key to preventing, managing and recovering from Covid-19 (and other diseases). That’s why it’s surprising,...

Why was she ever placed in a position at NIH where she was the final arbiter of the ethics of her husband’s experiments? Now that Dr. Anthony Fauci is feeling the heat for funding gain-of-function research at Wuhan Institute of Virology and covering it up, it’s time to scrutinize his wife. Christine Grady, MSN, PhD, is Fauci’s colleague at the National Institute of Health, where she serves of Chief of Bioethics and Head of Human Subjects Research at the NIH Clinical Center. According to the Center’s website, Grady's contributions are “primarily in the ethics of clinical research, including informed consent,...

A thick layer of "sea snot" thought to be the largest on record has hit the Turkish coast, endangering marine life and fishing trade.The marine mucilage is a slimy layer of grey sludge that forms when algae is overloaded with nutrients as a result of hot weather and water pollution.Studies show that the slime stretches up to 100ft (30m) deep, threatening to poison mussels, crabs and other shellfish.Experts blame pollution from household waste, the neighbouring Black Sea and Danube River, as well as higher-than-usual water temperatures caused by climate change.

Have we ever had a public official this dishonest with the public? On March 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci famously told Americans via 60 Minutes that there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. In fact, masks are likely even counterproductive, he said, because people don’t wear them correctly, constantly touch their face when wearing them, and the mask may give a false sense of security to wearers that may lessen other practical precautions to avoid exposure, like washing hands or physical distancing. Months later, he told us that he knew that masks actually would save countless lives, but...

Source: (Screenshot via Tim Rogers/YouTube)You may have heard by now about Paxton Smith, the high-school valedictorian in Texas who switched out her expected speech to decry the recent heartbeat law passed in that state, which restricts abortions early on in pregnancy. "I have dreams and hopes and ambitions," she said. "Every girl graduating today does. ... And without our input and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us. "I am terrified," Smith said, "that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams...

Finance ministers from the G7 group of leading economies are confident of striking a deal on taxing multinational companies at their meeting in London. The agreement is expected to include a global minimum rate of corporation tax. It would target tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft. German finance minister Olaf Scholz said the deal would "change the world". He said a 15% rate would help pay back debts that have built up during the pandemic - and that he was "absolutely confident" there would be an agreement. "If we agree on the minimum taxation for corporates, this will help...

The confusion that seems to cloud Sen. Chuck Schumer’s thinking starts to clear up if you understand classic Soviet principles. U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Mr. Chuck Schumer, portrays himself as an unrelenting warrior for democracy and the champion of the oppressed. But in his narrow perspective, in which maintaining his and his party’s political power appears as an overriding value that trumps all other values, he does not seem to realize that he confuses things that the majority of the American people do not. Would someone, please, explain to him that cheating on behalf of the oppressed has virtually nothing...

Weekly update of VAERS COVID Vaccine Data (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, USA) 294,801 Reports Through May 28 2021 DEATHS 5,165 HOSPITALIZATIONS 17,619 Urgent Care 39,121 OFFICE VISITS 51,133 ANAPHYLAXIS 1,342 BELL'S PALSY 1,565 HOSPITALIZATIONS 17,619 Urgent Care 39,121 OFFICE VISITS 51,133 ANAPHYLAXIS 1,342 BELL'S PALSY 1,565 Life Threatening 5,317 Heart Attacks 1,892 Myocarditis/Pericarditis 756 Thrombocytopenia/Low Platelet 1,392 Miscarriages 571 Severe Allergic Reaction 13,574 Disabled 3,994