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Florida’s first incremental increase in the minimum wage went into effect on Thursday, increasing from $8.65 per hour minimum to $10 per hour. The first in a series of wage hike increases come after Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment backed by Orlando TV attorney John Morgan. The measure was approved via a supermajority vote of 60.8 percent last election cycle, with more than 6.3 million Floridians say they favor a $15 hour minimum wage hike. Today marked the first step in that process, with the state’s minimum wage set to increase by $1 each year on September 30th, until...

In World War I, pilots on either side of the line enjoyed sudden lurches ahead in technology advances followed by steady declines into obsolescence. This created a seesaw effect in the air where Allied pilots would be able to blast their way through German lines for a few months, but then had to run scared if the enemy got the jump on them. So the Allied pilots found a way to fake their deaths in the air with a risky but effective maneuver. Some Nieuport planes had a tendency to break apart when pilots pulled them out of a steep...

"Marquez received the mandatory vaccine on August 22, 2021, and immediately started having a bad reaction. Since receiving the vaccine he has not been able to return to work and his future is uncertain. After receiving his vaccine he developed severe tremors and has trouble sleeping due to the amount of pain in his legs. He has fallen a number of times and basically can’t walk."

A black woman has been charged with posing as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and posting notes through neighbors' doors threatening to kill their children. Terresha Lucas, 30, has been charged with eight counts of making terroristic threats, according to the Douglasville, Georgia Police Department. Investigators allege that Lucas wrote letters describing herself as a ‘six-feet-tall white male with a long, red beard who did not live in the neighborhood.’ In March, residents of the Brookmont subdivision of Manning Drive in Douglasville, some 23 miles west of Atlanta, began receiving threatening, racist letters in the mail. 'I received...

Jennifer Lawrence put her baby bump on full display at the Rally for Abortion Justice in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The actress – who is expecting her first child with husband Cooke Maroney – attended the the Women’s March and Planned Parenthood-supported rally with her pal, Amy Schumer, who documented the outing on Instagram. Lawrence, chic in a checkered dress and denim jacket, proudly held up a sign that read, “Women can’t be free if they don’t control their bodies,” while Schumer’s stated, “Abortion is essential.”

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles officially opened its doors to the public on Thursday after years of planning, construction, and delays. And like many things in the movie business these days, the museum comes with prominent ties to Communist China. Museum leaders have given gallery naming rights to the Dalian Wanda Group after the Chinese conglomerate donated $20 million to help finance the museum’s $482 million creation. But they are declining to comment to Breitbart News about the ethical dilemmas posed by the partnership. The museum’s Wanda Gallery, located on the second floor, features exhibition space...

China power problems are affecting 20 out of China’s 34 provinces. Cement production has been reduced by 29% and aluminum production capacity has been reduced 7%. Heavy industry has seen the most cutbacks. Coal prices are up but China’s utilities have energy price controls. There were quotas on coal mining. The rolling blackout and other power shutoff is also hitting hospitals and street lights. The power shutoffs are very broad and the facts do not align with various excuses and stories coming from China. China’s leadership has not been on top of the power shortage problem and has been months...

10:10 AM · Oct 3, 2021Link: Dan Scavino🇺🇸🦅 on Twitter: "https://t.co/0ctS3x04vO"Video Transcript: "My fellow Americans, we will never allow this force of evil to knock down our Constitution, our God-given truths.My Friends, we were all saddened by the unrighteousness that has doomed our nation. We were all angry for this deceit that has taken our freedom, our children’s freedom.But we must not give up, for God shall remind all that His power is stronger than any politician, any book, any lie. He will show truths because we are a nation of truths and strength. And my Fellow Americans, He will...

“Extreme” House Democrats are holding the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill “hostage,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) lamented in a statement Friday. Romney released his statement after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to hold a vote Thursday on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Leftist Democrats, led by House progressive caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), whipped up her fellow progressives against the bipartisan bill because they want to move forward on the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act. In his statement, Romney claimed progressives continue to hold the bill hostage and that the bipartisan...

Covid, Swiss Guards revolt against Bergoglio: "We do not get vaccinated". And they resignIn the Vatican, the Swiss Guards revolt against Pope Francis . Already, the oath to serve the Pontiff faithfully by offering, if necessary, even life, can no longer be honored. At least for the no-vax Swiss Guards, opposed to the Covid vaccine. In fact, it is learned that three Swiss Guards opposed to serum have renounced their service in the Vatican. The point is that the vaccine, for them, has become mandatory under the specific instructions of Pope Francis . In all, there were six Swiss Guards...

The White House in July explicitly stated that coronavirus vaccine mandates are “not the role of the federal government” — an admission made months before President Biden announced federal vaccine mandates he was imposing on private businesses. During a July 23 press briefing, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if she believed the federal government should “step in and issue mandates.” Psaki, at the time, dismissed such a proposal. “Well, I think the question here — one, that’s not the role of the federal government; that is the role that institutions, private-sector entities, and others may take,”...

What if every excuse for vaccinating every living person against COVID-19 is wrong? If so, how should that change things? Let's play what if. What if the long-term harm to children being vaccinated is unknown? It is. What if the short-term harm to people, in general, may be great, even deadly? Both are true. What if the COVID vaccinations don't prevent contracting or transmitting the virus? They don't. What if only about 5% of deaths attributed to COVID showed only COVID to be the cause of death on the death certificates? They do. What if the remaining 95% were just...

I’m the founder of MeWe, the ad-free social network with data privacy and no content amplification or newsfeed manipulation. MeWe competes directly with Facebook. On June 27, 2019, I wrote an op-ed in this newspaper headlined “I Compete With Facebook, and It’s No Monopoly.” I’ve changed my mind. MeWe continues to succeed, albeit on a modest scale. Two years ago the platform had five million users and no revenue. Today it has nearly 20 million users and is breaking even with millions of dollars in revenue. Yet despite MeWe’s growth, Facebook’s troubling actions over the last two years have caused...

Its name is New World Economic Order.It was conceived between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies.Its originator was Henry Kissinger, at the very beginning.It was a veritable reset. We are trying to correct the mistakes that we have been making for the last fifty years, since the very first reset, also known as New World Economic Order, which was designed in the seventies.Founded upon a series of facts which ignore natural law.Which we can define as “not always natural”, and “pretty utopian”.After fifty years, since the first reset of the seventies produced several mistakes, a...

The blast targeted the gates of the Eidgah Mosque in the Afghan capital, where a funeral service was being held for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Muhajid, who tweeted that the blast had claimed the lives of civilians. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured in the attack. Emergency NGO, an Italian nonprofit that runs a hospital in Kabul, said on Twitter that it was treating four people wounded in the explosion. Reports on social media described a large detonation and emergency services rushing to the scene. No one has claimed responsibility for the...

Holy See Asks Missouri Governor to Halt Scheduled ExecutionVATICAN CITY — The Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Christopher Pierre, asked the governor of Missouri on Monday to spare the life of Ernest Johnson, a man sentenced with the death penalty for murdering three people in the 1990s. “In the Holy Father’s name,” Archbishop Pierre wrote to Governor Michael Parson, “I sincerely request the you halt the planned execution of the Mr. Johnson and grant him some appropriate form of clemency.” Archbishop Pierre wrote that the Holy Father’s request is not based on “the facts and circumstances of...

A top White House adviser said that Democrats will be disappointed as the party works to trim President Joe Biden’s agenda amid party infighting, although he predicted that two major components would be passed in Congress. “People will be disappointed. People will not get everything they want, that is the art of legislating, but the goal here is to get both bills, and we’re going to fight until we get both bills,” Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, told “Meet the Press” on Sunday.Late last week, infighting between moderate and leftist members of the Democratic...

Larger-than-life Georgian warrior Giorgi Saakadze was put to death in Aleppo on this date in 1629. Through friendship with the royal family and talent on the battlefield, (English Wikipedia entry | Georgian), Saakadze had risen from the petty nobility to become one of the leading figures in the Kingdom of Kartli (centered on the city of Tbilisi, Georgia’s present-day capital). He even married his sister to the king himself. Kartli was a minor principality under the sway of the adjacent Persian Safavids but that doesn’t mean they were thrilled about the idea. Saakadze would embark on a treacherous (in both...

A document claims that the Wuhan Institute of Virology wanted to genetically enhance bat coronaviruses to understand human risk…

Antibody levels generated by two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can undergo up to a 10-fold decrease seven months following the second vaccination, research suggests.The drop in antibody levels will compromise the body’s ability to defend itself against COVID-19 if the individual becomes infected.In a recent BioRxiv study published ahead of peer-review, many recipients of the vaccine displayed substantial waning of antibodies to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, or SARS-CoV-2, and its variants including Delta, Beta, and Mu.Bali Pulendran of Stanford University and Mehul Suthar of Emory University told Reuters that the study shows “vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine...