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ransomnote: very disturbing to see these sentences, fines. This is how it started in Australia, and the fines and prison sentences just kept increasing, sometimes doubling overnight. Limits to keep people from traveling beyond 10 kilometers from their homes were halved, overnight, with more and more troops/police to enforce. This is an overthrow of freedom done by degrees.According to Mississippi Health Office, the patients of COVID-19 who refuse to self-isolate may be fined $5000 and even sent to 5 years in jail or both.The state health officer for Mississippi issued a COVID-19 isolation order (read below) on Friday, telling people...

Algeria cut diplomatic relations with Morocco on Tuesday, citing what it called hostile actions by its most populous neighbour with which it has had strained relations for decades. Speaking at a news conference in Algiers, Foreign Minister Ramdane Lamamra accused Morocco of using Pegasus spyware against its officials, supporting a separatist group and failing in bilateral commitments, including on the Western Sahara issue. Morocco’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on social media that it regretted what it called an unjustified decision and said it would remain a “credible and loyal partner” to the Algerian people. While the border...

...By rigidly splitting Americans into two groups, white versus nonwhite, it reinvents the discredited 19th-century “one-drop rule” and applies it to a 21st-century society in which the color line is more fluid than it has ever been. In reality, racial diversity is increasing not only at a nationwide level but also within American families—indeed within individual Americans. Nearly three in 10 Asian, one in four Latino, and one in five Black newlyweds are married to a member of a different ethnic or racial group. More than three-quarters of these unions are with a white partner. For more and more Americans,...

President Biden on Tuesday received a classified report from the intelligence community that was inconclusive about the origins of the novel coronavirus, including whether the pathogen jumped from an animal to a human as part of a natural process, or escaped from a lab in central China, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec·1h Biden can’t even say no American will be left behind He has betrayed his oath 10:31PM • August 24, 2021

Delhi Obliterates COVID with Ivermectin"In India — where the Delta variant was first identified and caused a huge outbreak — cases have plunged over the past two months. A similar drop may now be underway in Britain. There is no clear explanation for these declines."David Leonhardt of the New York Times wrote this on July 30, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/briefing/coronavirus-delta-mysteries.htmlTrialSite News in May reported on "Beyond the Roundup" their analysis. https://youtu.be/pko4LldUQCITSN reported that the Delta variant outbreak exploded in the last week of March, primarily in migrant workers. A large percent of these workers, up to 50% of all Indian citizens, travel...

The Ivermectin EffectThe New York Times reported India’s colossal drop in COVID cases was unexplainable, while the BBC declared that Kerala’s rise was also a mystery. While new cases of COVID in Uttar Pradesh are rare as million-dollar lottery tickets, in Kerala, a tiny state located in southern India, new daily cases are the same as the United States, nearly one case per thousand. Yet, as we have seen in this series, there has been a curious media blackout on India’s overall success against COVID.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58054124https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/briefing/coronavirus-delta-mysteries.html"Kerala has been reporting over 22,000 new COVID infections in the last three days. No other...

Thailand has decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant that's native to Southeast Asia whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant and painkillerThailand on Tuesday decriminalized the possession and sale of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant and painkiller and which has a following in the United States for its pain-relieving qualities. Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said thousands of legal cases for the possession or sale of kratom were being dropped, and 121 inmates convicted in such cases would be released immediately. Possession of kratom had been punishable...

According to the Biden regime, 21,000 civilians were evacuated from the Kabul Airport in the last 24 hours. 37 US military flights carrying 12,700 evacuees were airlifted from Kabul on Monday and 57 coalition flights carrying 8,900 civilians were evacuated from Afghanistan. ..... Snip..... The White House said on Tuesday 58,700 civilians were evacuated from Afghanistan since the operation began. Advertisement - story continues below Emerald Robinson from Newsmax on Tuesday said only 4,000 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. That means there are likely over 10,000 Americans left in the country. It also means that most of the civilians...

The NFL is hellbent on getting 100% of players “vaccinated” with the controversial Covid jab. But one has to wonder why the push when so many players and coaches are testing positive AFTER taking the so-called “vaccination”.The NFL has implemented all kinds of draconian and segregationist policies to make the choice not to get “vaccinated” miserable while giving those who took the jab plenty of slobbering praise and admiration.For example, those who refuse the jab must sit out five days if they come in contact with anyone known to test positive, but “vaccinated” players don’t have to. Oppressive masking and...

Is Pope Francis warning the Roman Curia?How the pope can effectively reform the Church's central bureaucracy in the image and likeness of Vatican Council II.Pope Francis made it clear recently that unless one accepts the magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), one is not "with the Church".He was speaking to the catechists of Italy, but that part of his message was clearly addressed to a wider audience. The media understood this and gave it widespread coverage. The pope said there could be "no concessions" or "selectivity" and that "we must be demanding and strict on this point".His uncharacteristically...

Spencer Elden, the man who, as a baby, posed for the iconic cover image to Nirvana’s Nevermind is reportedly suing the band and Kurt Cobain’s estate, claiming he was exploited for the picture. Court documents allege the band “knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so.” According to Elden, photographer Kirk Weddle took pictures of his naked body “in poses highlighting and emphasizing Spencer’s exposed genitals.” The suit further alleges that Cobain “agreed to redact Spencer’s image by releasing the album with a sticker strategically placed over Spencer’s...

Neville Chamberlain can rest easy. He is no longer the most shameful appeaser in modern history. Joe Biden is the new champion of cowards. Biden didn’t just blink in the face of terror. He is groveling before the Taliban, acknowledging their victory and laying the groundwork for their legitimacy as the rulers of Afghanistan. Who could imagine any American president allowing murderous thugs to set the terms of our military’s surrender? But that’s what has been happening and it crystalized Tuesday.

With California’s deadline of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for all health care workers approaching, boycotts are gaining momentum.On Aug. 21, California’s frontline health care workers held simultaneous protests in Riverside and Irvine against the government’s mandatory vaccination order at Kaiser Permanente-Riverside Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Irvine Medical Center.Many protesters told The Epoch Times that their hospitals had given them an ultimatum: they had until Sept. 30 to choose between mandatory vaccination and getting fired.The California Department of Public Health issued an announcement on Aug. 5 that workers in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care homes, and other health care-related...

Despite the Chinese regime banning fentanyl and its analogues in 2019, China remains the primary source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances being trafficked into the United States, according to a new report by a U.S. congressional advisory body.Chinese traffickers have found sophisticated ways to circumvent these regulations, said an Aug. 24 U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) report. This includes shifting their business from manufacturing finished fentanyl to exporting precursors to Mexican cartels, who then produce and traffic the drug across the border.Moreover, these evasion efforts have been enabled by the Chinese regime’s “weak supervision and regulation” of...

The Fox News Channel is claiming a huge victory: its snarky, comedic and conservative host Greg Gutfeld is the new king of late-night television, joining the likes of Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and David Letterman, all of whom have held the title in the past. And Fox News has the Nielsen data to back up its assertion. For the first time in a full week (August 16-22), the show dubbed Gutfeld! scored a larger audience than Jimmy Fallon on NBC, Jimmy Kimmel on ABC and Stephen Colbert on CBS. It's not an exact apples-to-apples comparison, as Gutfeld! airs at 11...

Joe Biden finally gave his big Afghanistan presser this afternoon. Arriving five hours late for the event, the President took the stage. His eyes were bloodshot and glazed over with his pace of speaking obviously labored as he began to robotically read the teleprompter.What then transpired was one of the most insulting, tone-deaf spectacles I’ve ever seen from a president. Instead of getting right into the crisis in Afghanistan, Biden inexcusably began the presser by plugging his “Build Back Better” agenda.No, I’m not kidding. It was absolutely surreal.Biden: "Before I update you on the meeting that I had with the...

It seems the Afghanistan fiasco has the liberal news audience fleeing the story.There is a lot of consternation both on the left and in the media circles (yes, yes — I know) over how the press has become willing to be critical of President Biden regarding how big of a mess the withdrawal from Afghanistan has become. So much so that some in the press are saying that the whole disaster is actually being overhyped.This was a position Brian Stelter took, suggesting that too much emphasis was being placed on the debacle. On his Sunday edition, he had Matthew Dowd...

Tamang was declared dead in 2015 in Saudi Arabia.Subhash Tamang of Belbari, Morang, who for the past three years had been trying to prove that he is alive and not dead as declared by the registration of death certificate he holds, has been reissued a copy of his citizenship. The Morang District Administration Office on Thursday issued a copy of Subhash's citizenship. Chief District Officer Kosh Hari Niraula handed the citizenship’s copy after Subhash's registration of death was annulled on August 10 as per Article 24 of the National Identity Card and Civil Registration Act, 2020. “There was no need...

Editors' note Aug. 24, 2021: An earlier version of this story implied that Eli Lilly doesn't have emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody treatments anymore. Distribution of Eli Lilly's bamlanivimab and etesevimab treatment has been paused in the US but is still authorized.Preventing COVID-19 from making people extremely sick or landing them in the hospital is the public health goal of the pandemic, and the main job of the coronavirus vaccines. While monoclonal antibody therapy has been around for decades, COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies (lab-made antibodies given to a person that help their immune system stop the infection from spreading) have...