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Rumble — Paris Takes to the Streets As Tens Of Thousands Protest Macron's Tyrannical Covid Passports

Contrary to Hezbollah's image as an all-powerful organization in Lebanon, the Arab press exposes cracks in the oiled Shiite military machine operating in Lebanon for 40 years under Tehran's order: severe economic crisis, erosion after fighting in Syria, conflicts with other ethnic groups in Lebanon, blood feuds between Shiite and Shiite tribes and more. ... Financial crisis Hezbollah's main financiers in Tehran have suffered severe sanctions in the United States in recent years, as well as an economic boycott of the Gulf and Saudi principalities. Entire areas of Lebanon are out of military control. The poor Palestinian refugee camps in...

President Joe Biden announced in a statement on Saturday the deployment of an additional 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, “to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance.” Biden is also announcing a series of actions aimed at deescalating the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, including directing the intel community “to ensure that we will maintain the capability and the vigilance to address future terrorist threats from Afghanistan,” tasking...

The Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin regarding the current heightened threat environment across the United States. The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment leading up to and following the 20th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as well religious holidays we assess could serve as a catalyst for acts of targeted violence. These threats include those posed by domestic terrorists, individuals and groups engaged in grievance-based violence, and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists and other malign foreign influences. These actors are increasingly exploiting online...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was censured by the Aiken County Republican Party over his vote in favor of the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. They said that Lindsey Graham “consciously violated the platform of the South Carolina Republican Party.”

Let's assume that it is from China and they either intentionally designed and released it or spread it. I think most would agree at this point it is one or the other. I'd casually move the Pacific Fleet in proximity to Taiwan, ramp up US chip manufacturing, and economically decouple completely from China over the next 6-12 months. China is already making this easier to do as they close their ports. Do you agree or disagree? What are some other responses that make sense?

A new Emergency Temporary Standard from OSHA requires strict adherence to PPE requirements, and OSHA encourages employees to report their employer if violations are observed. Fines can be more than $136,000 per occurrence, but fully “vaccinated” employees with a Covid-shot are exempt from having to wear the PPE in non-Covid areas. Some doctors are saying that rather than risk the fines, it is easier for hospitals to mandate “vaccines” for all employees, contractors, and vendors. The dates of issuance for these orders lend credence to this hypothesis. OSHA officially started its new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on July 6. Idaho’s...

3 hr 1 min ago Afghan security forces pushing back against Taliban in Mazar-i-Sharif, source says From CNN's Vasco Cotovio Afghan security forces have been able to push back a Taliban offensive on Mazar-i-Sharif that started at 4 a.m. local time, according to an Afghan security source with knowledge of the fighting. According to the source, the Taliban successfully managed to conquer the gates of Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city before being pushed back by Afghan security forces. They were able to do so again, and now Afghan security forces are advancing, trying to push them out of the city. The Taliban...

Mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic is prone to promoting selection and adaptation of immune escape variants that are featured by increasing infectiousness and resistance to spike protein (S)-directed antibodies (Abs), thereby diminishing protection in vaccinees and threatening the unvaccinated.

Only this time the inmates are Australians themselves. Australia is in a very dark place. The army has been drafted in to force people to stay in their homes, going door-to-door to check for compliance. Police helicopters circle overhead, threatening anyone in parks or public spaces with police action and fines; there is genuine fear over being caught outside without a permissible excuse. No one is allowed more than 5 kilometers from their home address, only one person per household may leave to purchase supplies once a day, and Sydney-siders are not permitted to speak to friends or stop to...

Brandon Rutherford wore a face mask Wednesday as he stood in front of a Hamilton County judge to be sentenced for his recent drug conviction. "I had the mask on because I heard the COVID numbers were back up," Rutherford told the WCPO 9 I-Team. Rutherford, 21, said Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Wagner asked him questions. "He asked me, was I vaccined?" Rutherford said. "I told him no. And he asked me if I planned to get vaccined, and I told him no." Rutherford said that's when Wagner ordered him to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot within two months...

A new report alleges DNA testing confirms Ilhan Omar was married to her biological brother Ahmed Elmi. The two were allegedly married to bypass immigration laws. Omar has never been indicted on this crime. The test results were originally posted on GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro‘s Facebook page. He was arrested hours later by the feds on sex trafficking charges.

A new study published in JAMA shows 1 in 100,000 people had vaccine-related myocarditis and 1.8 in 100,000 people had pericarditis — compared to the CDC’s data that 4.8 people per 1 million suffer myocarditis after receiving a COVID vaccine. U.S. public health officials claim cases of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID vaccination are rare — but new research published online in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) shows they may happen more often than reported. Post-vaccine myocarditis and pericarditis also appear to represent two “distinct syndromes,” Dr. George Diaz, with the Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, told Medscape...

After being kept off the stage for months and months, Kid Rock is very happy to be entertaining his fans live and in-person once again. The very popular rock star took to social media to share his feelings about touring, 2020, and more this week. And in true Kid Rock fashion, his message was as brutally honest as he can be. His social media message came out after he, unsurprisingly, rocked out on the Buffalo Chip Main Stage during the 2021 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. Kid Rock opened his Monday, Aug. 9, an Instagram post reflecting on what...

The link tells the story of the growing crime. Here is a DFU report of the crime while visiting the grandkids in Tacoma. Late at night, perhaps around 11pm, a neighbor across the street was returning home from work and saw a lowlife scumbag or scumbags attempting to steal our Honda Element catalytic converter. They had cut through one pipe and almost through the other, but they fled the scene when they realized the neighbor saw what they were doing. The catalytic converter now hangs on the ground and I have to get it repaired or replaced. Thank you, scumbags....

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3468810/chilling-map-jihadis-flocking-afghanistan-terror-war/# Taliban fighters pose in ‘stolen US military gear’ in an ISIS-style photoCredit: Badri 313 Battalion

Well happy birthday to me. I have a Ministry to the homeless in downtown Greenville South Carolina and for the last 3 days I've been with a man who has recently released from jail and I've been encouraging him to stay sober presenting him the gospel, and I bought him a meal and gave him a bunch of Gatorade and things to drink. Today while talking to him he told me that he is covid positive. I asked him right now? And he said yes.

A grieving woman who lost her fully vaccinated father to Covid on Tuesday oddly claimed her father would have suffered even more if he didn’t get the experimental vaccines.

Julie Hartman argues that the reason why many people today identify with the left is not primarily because they are truly attracted to the left's policies, but because leftism provides people with a way to attain "cheap grace" -- to claim that they are helping others without having to make any real sacrifice of their own. She says that many on the left "advocate for destructive, irresponsible policies, get praise for doing it, and then insulate themselves from the consequences [of those policies].”

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec They are referring to anti-lockdown protesters as terrorists in public now Image Image 8:21 AM · Aug 14, 2021·