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Monday, August 24, 2021, was an exciting day for the Pfizer vaccine. Not only did the Food and Drug Administration fully approve it, but it will also be marketed under a new name. Going forward, it will be known as Comirnaty. It should be a day for celebrating. Finally, a vaccine for the coronavirus has won the coveted FDA stamp of approval! Now everyone can be vaccinated with complete confidence in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine that has come to be the gold standard for fighting COVID-19.Not so fast! In December 2020, Israel launched a campaign to vaccinate...

England saw a rise in young adults taking up smoking during the first lockdown, according to a study. The number of 18 to 34-year-olds who classed themselves as smokers increased by a quarter, from 21.5% to 26.8%, says Cancer Research UK. The data does not explain why the changes occurred but experts believe many turned to cigarettes in response to stress. At the same time, heavy drinking increased across adults of all ages. The findings, published in the journal Addiction, come from monthly surveys, each involving hundreds of people, about tobacco and alcohol use. Researchers compared the responses given in...

One of the most effective ways for the MSM to shut down inquiry into misconduct is to say it is all a conspiracy theory. Besides avoiding an unwanted discussion, the charge also invites scrutiny of the "theorist" instead of the issue itself. Notice how quickly some even start off saying something like "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..." Expecting their reaction, we have become almost trained to do this. But are there really no big conspiracies? It has been claimed that the phrase "conspiracy theory" was invented by the government to discourage the questioning of official explanations for important events,...

While vaccine mandates continue to sweep the nation in connection the fight against COVID-19, the free-speech social-media site Gab.com on Tuesday launched a "No Vax Mandate Job Board" to help American employers and workers who want nothing to do with the shots. "Is your current employer forcing you to inject a foreign substance into your body in order to retain work?" asked Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab. "Are you a business owner who doesn't do this and is looking to hire? Join the No Vax Mandate Job Board on Gab." Torba says he created the group "in light of the...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Wednesday she hopes the Biden and Harris administration can evacuate all Americans from the deadly chaos at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. “Hopefully, as many as those people [Afghans and Americans] will be evacuated as possible — hopefully all,” she reiterated. “But this is a tragic situation. I’ve been there eight or nine times to Afghanistan,” she continued about her inspection of women’s rights in the country. “We’ve changed Afghanistan in that respect in that women have seen the light of day, but now, that is under threat”:

The big COVID news is the Food and Drug Administration has granted formal approval for the Pfizer vaccine. Heretofore, the COVID vaccines were being used on an emergency basis. Putting aside the hoopla, the approval of this novel mRNA vaccine has to be suspect. Realize that the FDA was under intense political pressure to approve it. Plus the vaccine had already been administered to hundreds of million people worldwide. Given all that, it would have been impossible for the FDA not to proclaim the vaccine as safe. Approval was a foregone conclusion. Joe Biden said the approval was the result...

Russia’s flagship “Combat Olympics” featured a peculiar ballet performance on top of tanks. Videos from the International Army Games 2021 (ArMI-2021) showed two ballerinas in tutus and pointer shoes pirouetting, arabesque-ing and pliéing to “Swan Lake” in a pas de deux with uniformed servicemen. The dancers' eyebrow-raising performance takes place two years after a central Russian volunteer military service staged an eccentric International Women’s Day photoshoot featuring armed and camouflaged servicemen posing alongside ballerinas inside an empty metro station. It also comes days after the 30th anniversary of the 1991 August coup, when “Swan Lake” played on a loop on...

One of the ways the Biden Administration plans to help pay for its very expensive Green New Deal is to levy higher taxes on assets that parents pass down to their children. Under current law, certain inherited assets like farms, real estate, and investments can be left to heirs without being taxed. This enables family businesses to be retained in the family from one generation to the next. Under the proposed new tax, the son or daughter inheriting the family farm or store would face an immediate bill for the appreciation in value the business has garnered over the lifetime...

Gavin Newsom remains popular but Democrats appear far less likely than Republicans to vote in the election When Gavin Newsom first elected governor of California in 2018, he captured a greater share of the vote than any other Democrat in state history. And he has remained broadly popular, despite a global pandemic, economic catastrophe, and a scandalously ill-timed visit to the Michelin-starred restaurant the French Laundry.

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian notified employees Wednesday that they will face $200 monthly increases on their health insurance premiums starting Nov. 1 if they aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19, citing steep costs to cover employees who are hospitalized with the virus. Unvaccinated employees will face other restrictions, including indoor masking effective immediately and weekly Covid-19 tests starting Sept. 12 the Atlanta-based airline said in announcing new Covid policies for employees. The measures are the latest attempt by a U.S. corporation to drive up Covid vaccination rates. Delta stopped short of an outright mandate like rival United Airlines established earlier...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) issued an order this week to deploy more than 100 National Guardsmen to hospitals across the state in order to aid hospital staff amid a surge of coronavirus infections that have caused emergency rooms to reach capacity. “These guardsmen will assist our front-line health care workers as they provide quality medical care during the current increase in cases and hospitalizations, and I greatly appreciate General [Tom] Carden and his team for their willingness to answer the call again in our fight against COVID-19,” Kemp said, according to WSBTV. “This Georgia National Guard mission is in...

A Belgian zoo banned a local woman from visiting the park's chimpanzee exhibit due to her "affair" with one of the primates. A chimpanzee named Chita arrived at the Antwerp Zoo 30 years ago. Over the past four years, Adie Timmermans has visited the primate every week, developing a close bond with the animal. "I love that animal, and he loves me. I haven't got anything else. Why do they want to take that away," Timmermans said, per Newsweek. "We're having an affair, I'll just say." According to the outlet, the "affair" Timmermans mentioned involved the primate and woman waving...

The department said it was made aware of Granucci's video. "While we respect the individual's right to his opinion, he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the Department," the statement said. "The individual is in uniform and appears to be on duty, thereby giving the impression that he is speaking in an official capacity." The department warned that "the matter has been submitted to our Professional Standards Division for investigation, which may lead to disciplinary action." Freddy Escobar, president of the United Firefighters of LA City, said in a statement that "there is passionate discussion regarding this issue...

Biden pushes the Senate to pass Voter Fraud Act VIDEO AT LINK............ Psaki DEFENDS Biden from voting rights activists' attacks VIDEO AT LINK.............

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-requires-biden-revive-trump-era-remain-mexico-immigration-2021-08-24/

WASHINGTON, D.C.—“It’s 9 a.m., and President Biden is perfectly alive and breathing,” read yet another press release from the White House. Most people find it reassuring to know the president isn’t dead. Yet the hourly, completely unprompted assurances that Biden has not died are starting to have the opposite effect on people. “I don’t usually spend a lot of time worrying that the president is dead,” said Washington D.C. citizen Tony Underwood, “but the constant statements from the White House have got me on edge.” Underwood pointed particularly to a recent one that said, “Biden is alive, but we can’t...

The House Rules Committee voted Monday on rules governing debate on election legislation known as HR 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The controversial bill now goes to the House for a vote. After Democrats failed to pass HR 1, a partisan piece of election legislation, they crafted HR 4, which Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky says is a danger to states’ election rights. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) HR 4 “gives federal bureaucrats control over all these state [election] rules all over the country,” says von Spakovsky, a...

“People just don’t want to comply, and I don’t think they will comply,” he says, looking at the problem from a big-picture sense. “COVID is going to go on for quite some time.”

A US intelligence report requested by President Biden into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic is inconclusive, US media reports say. Agencies are reportedly divided on whether the virus - first seen in China - was the result of a natural spillover from animals to humans or was caused by a laboratory accident. An summary of the report is expected to be published in the coming days. China's foreign minister has dismissed the report as "anti-science". Wang Yi said Washington had "ignored and abandoned" research carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a report that would only service...

BEIJING: China criticized on Wednesday (Aug 25) the US "politicization" of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding a US military laboratory be investigated, shortly before the release of a US intelligence community report on the virus. The US report is intended to resolve disputes among intelligence agencies considering different theories about how the coronavirus emerged, including a once-dismissed theory about a Chinese laboratory accident. ADVERTISEMENT "Scapegoating China cannot whitewash the US," Fu Cong, director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' arms control department, told a briefing. The US report was due to be completed by a Tuesday...