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Musician Ted Nugent joined 'Tucker Carlson Today' to discuss defending the Second Amendment. "You Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you...."

Defense minister tells envoys from UNSC members the time has come for tangible actions — including military — against Tehran as hardline president comes into office Iran is ten weeks away from acquiring enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday. “Iran has violated all of the guidelines set in the JCPOA and is only around 10 weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon,” Gantz told ambassadors from countries on the United Nations Security Council during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. “Now is the time for...

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In addition to overseeing funding of gain of function coronavirus experiments in Wuhan, and then lying about it, it has now emerged that Dr Fauci was in charge of funding horrid experimental research on dogs, including purposefully infecting the animals with parasites known to be contagious to humans. The report from the White Coat Waste Project draws on information gleaned from a FOIA request which revealed that $400,000 was pumped into National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Disease experiments to infect beagles with parasites from biting flies. The report outlines how the dogs “endured months of pain, and once researchers...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday responded to extensive evidence that China is perpetrating genocide against ethnic Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang territory by accusing the United States of executing “the real genocide” against Native Americans, the state-run Global Times reported Thursday. “In recent years, the population of Uygur ethnic group in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has doubled, and their average life expectancy has increased. Annual income, education and other indicators are all looking promising,” Wang claimed on August 4 while speaking at the virtual 11th East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. Wang specifically spoke “in...

President Joe Biden suggested the violence of the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill was worse than the Civil War during a speech Thursday at the White House.“Not even during the Civil War did insurrectionists breach the Capitol of the United States of America, the citadel of our democracy,” Biden began. “Not even then. But on January the 6th, 2021, they did.”The president hosted a signing ceremony Thursday for a bill awarding Capitol Police officers a Congressional Gold Medal for their response to the January 6th riots, giving Biden an opportunity to excoriate supporters of the former president for the...

The rate at which coronavirus-positive border crossers are arriving in the United States has “increased significantly,” according to President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).David Shahoulian, DHS’s assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, admitted in a court brief filed this week that the agency has seen “significantly increased rates” of coronavirus-positive border crossers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, spurring “extremely worrisome” conditions at border facilities.Shahoulian writes in the brief:As explained in more detail below, the United States is currently encountering record numbers of noncitizens, including families, at the border. These encounter rates have strained DHS operations and caused...

Former President Trump singled out Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday, asking if the Kentucky Republican “will apologize” for breaking with him in an Ohio GOP House primary. Trump’s candidate of choice, coal industry lobbyist Mike Carey, won that primary on Tuesday, all but assuring that he’ll go on to succeed former Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who stepped down earlier this year to lead the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Paul, meanwhile, had thrown his support behind former Ohio state Rep. Ron Hood in the Ohio primary, putting himself at odds with Trump. A political action committee aligned with Paul spent heavily...

NEW YORK - CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. CNN chief Jeff Zucker told staff members of the firing in a memo sent Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were mandatory if they report to the office or out in the field where they come into contact with other employees. "Let me be clear - we have a zero tolerance policy on this," wrote Zucker, chairman of news and sports for WarnerMedia. The memo was obtained by The Associated Press after its contents were first tweeted by CNN...

Longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he recently urged the former president to promote COVID-19 vaccines among his supporters as cases and hospitalizations in the U.S. spike due to the highly contagious delta variant, The Associated Press reports. Graham on Monday revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 after he began experiencing flu-like symptoms on Saturday. Graham’s infection is the first known instance of a “breakthrough” case among senators. He received the two-dose Pfizer vaccine back in December as soon as it became available to members of Congress. The senator credited the vaccine for his mild symptoms. In a...

Shawn Johnson’s joy over the arrival of the birth of her and husband Andrew East's baby boy was cut short after her older daughter fell sick and had to be isolated. On Wednesday, July 28, a day after welcoming her son, the retired Olympic gymnast shared on Instagram that 21-month-old Drew Hazel East had contracted a "bad ear infection" and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which she had battled earlier this year as well. The respiratory virus is common among children, … is highly contagious and can be fatal to small infants. "Had some of the hardest and most emotional days...

PHOENIX - Arizona state Senator Tony Navarrete has been arrested, according to Phoenix police.Police officials say Navarrete, a Democrat, was arrested for sexual conduct with a minor that happened in 2019, among other crimes.

Almost 80 per cent of 16 to 24 year olds already have Covid-fighting antibodies, official figures suggested today. England's largest surveillance study estimated the high levels after testing blood samples of more than 1,000 youngsters in the week ending July 18. Almost 60 per cent of 16-17 year olds had signs of immunity... ...The antibody data, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), also found almost 94 per cent of people in England now had Covid antibodies. Scientists called the findings 'highly reassuring' and claimed it was 'no wonder' the country was seeing a fall in Covid cases. ......

Governor of Maryland suggests he will impose more lockdowns due to people believing ‘conspiracy theories’ about the vaccine https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1423416302069235717

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Woke censors have slapped an offensiveness warning on classic 'Allo 'Allo episodes in case viewers are upset by characters taking the mickey out of French and German accents. The BBC comedy, which ran from 1982 to 1992, coined a multitude of catchphrases that proved popular for decades. 'Good Moaning', uttered completely straight by French policeman Officer Crabtree, is still widely offered as a greeting nearly 30 years after Cafe René closed its doors for the last time. But now an online streaming service has included warnings over the show's content, which includes panto-style sexual innuendo as well as the foreign...

Donald Trump on Thursday night attacked the embattled governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo - saying he has 'got real problems' and faces an uncertain future. The former president was speaking at a Republican fundraiser for the state party, held at his Briarcliff golf course in New York. The speech was attended by Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accompanied by his son Andrew Giuliani - who is hoping to challenge Cuomo in November 2022. 'Cuomo's got real problems,' Trump said, mentioning Senate Republican Minority Leader Robert Ortt, who would participate in a Senate trial to remove Cuomo if the Assembly...

According to the chief of naval personnel, removing photos from promotion boards has hurt the Navy's diversity goal. "I think we should consider reinstating photos in selection boards," Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr. said Tuesday at a panel discussion on diversity at the annual Sea Air Space conference at a convention center outside of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Nowell explained that promotion board data over the last five years was clear -- "we can show you where, as you look at diversity, it went down with photos removed." The Navy has not released the data Nowell referenced. Then-Defense Secretary Mark...

(Reuters) - Nearly three dozen of the United States' most influential business groups have asked President Joe Biden's administration to restart trade talks with China and cut tariffs on imports, the Wall Street Journal reported https://www.wsj.com/articles/business-groups-call-on-biden-to-restart-trade-talks-with-china-11628212436?mod=latest_headlines on Thursday. (Please see link for full article)