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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced Friday that the city will phase out its controversial gifted and talented programs for elementary school students. The programs will be replaced with an initiative called "Brilliant NYC," which will increase the number of students who have access to accelerated learning, NBC News reported. The current gifted and talented programs are only available to incoming kindergarteners who score well on an exam that then sets them on a path to attending the city's elite schools. The exam is already suspended because the city's advisory school board did not renew it last year...

On Thursday Mark Levin broadcast a letter with insider information on the teachers union, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the FBI who met and organized how to combat America’s parents who were speaking out at local school board meetings across the country. The parents were outraged at the COVID masking and vaccination rules, critical race theory indoctrination and open porn disguised as literature promoted in American schools today.Mark Levin called this the biggest scandal of his lifetime on his radio show last night.The letter by America First Legal is fascinating. According to the letter the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized...

When a Cedar Cliff High School parent raised concerns that a booster club’s plan to raffle off five guns was inappropriate as a school-related fundraiser, district officials said they had no authority over the club’s activities. But the district policy and guidelines indicate that the district had the authority – and the opportunity – to nix or endorse the raffle and didn’t act. School board policy 915 says: “Booster organization fundraising activities shall be requested in writing and approved by the Athletic Director and building principal, and conform with District guidelines.” Among those guidelines is a statement on the district...

The View cohost Joy Behar raised more than a few eyebrows while urging black people to get the vaccine. Behar said that black people shouldn’t have vaccine hesitancy because “…the experiment has been done on white people.” The controversial figure brought up the Tuskegee experiments, during which untreated syphilis experimentation was done on nearly 400 black people without their knowledge or consent for 40 years, between 1932 and 1972. Over 100 people died as a result of the study. Behar said that because this was done, she does not blame the black community for their low vaccination rates. “How do...

1st October 2021 Features Emma’s interrogator said her arrest was part of a major national operation, in which Christians in as many as 23 other Iranian provinces had been detained. It was the day after Christmas in 2010, just two months since the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned in an infamous speech in Qom that the spread of house-churches were among the “critical threats” facing the Islamic Republic – by “deceiving young Muslims”. It was a speech that made headlines around the world, and it seems as though Emma’s interrogator was one of those listening. “He said that...

Sen. Rand Paul talks to Ben Domenech about the DOJ cracking down on concerned parents at school board meetings: "I think criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with." “I have a feeling and a fear that the left has become more authoritarian than we can really even imagine.” “Be Afraid Of Your Government” Watchlists Of Dissenters “Already Exist”

China has more than 415 million surveillance cameras deployed throughout the country, making its population by far the world's most-watched. And now Beijing is using digital currency, social security cards, social credit systems and online interactions to keep an even closer eye on its citizens. "It is a massive dragnet based on artificial intelligence, facial recognition, voice recognition, these are all novel technologies that the Chinese communist party is deploying against its people," said Geoffrey Cain. "That type of technology being used to throttle internet traffic flows or at times, in Cuba actually, turn off the internet, especially in the...

The first nurse who got vaccinated at Karl Bremer hospital in Western Cape in Soth Africa Nurse Iris Adam died because of the complications that she has faced due to Covid-19, she has died at the age of 64, she received the vaccine at the hospital, she has died on Saturday dating to 18th September 2021.She had been an assistant nursing manager since 1997 and she was also the first person to receive the vaccine in February this year. Adams obituary has been announced on social media but her friends and family, she was due to retire this month after...

President Biden went back to his fake White House set as the backdrop for his reaction to the disappointing September jobs report Friday, days after the mock-up was widely panned on social media. Despite the White House offering several venues fit for presidential remarks — including the Oval Office, the East Room, the State Dining Room and even the Brady Press Briefing Room — the administration has increasingly opted to use the model set up in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across from the executive mansion itself.

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to the greater Chicago area... As usual, Joe Biden jumbled his words and forgot where he was. “The Ohio Pennsylvania, the Ohio Pennsylvania, I’m from Pennsylvania,” Biden said gesturing to himself. “The Illinois president.” Biden’s mental faculties are no more and the media refuses to address his obvious cognitive decline. Joe Biden was a disaster in Michigan earlier this week. During his speech, Joe Biden slurred his words, mumbled about Grandpop and a “jargee station” (no idea what he meant there), slurred his words and then finished off spouting some gibberish.

Do We Want Comfort or Do We Want Christ? What comforts in our lives could lead us to deny Christ under the right circumstances? All of the Apostles fled from Jesus upon his arrest and crucifixion, except for Judas, who betrayed Him and St. John, who stayed with Him and Our Blessed Mother. These Apostles, who just hours prior sat with Him at the Last Supper where He instituted the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders, abandoned Him. His closest friends and followers. Those men were chosen to be the first bishops of His Church. The men chosen to follow Him...

Federal investigators have reportedly been trying to solve crimes by using warrants to force Google to search its databases for anyone in the public who’s ever used its search engine to look up certain information on the victim. For instance, to try and determine who’d kidnapped and sexually assaulted an underage girl in 2019, federal investigators in Wisconsin used a warrant to force Google to list the names of anyone who’d “searched for the victim’s name, two spellings of her mother’s name and her address over 16 days across the year,” according to Forbes. This sort of warrant is known...

"Leave now while you still can. Once the war with China starts, you will not be able to leave the West. And even if there is no war, that won’t stop the West’s collapse into totalitarianism. So leave now while you still can. You won’t get another warning." LEAVE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN (13 min video)

Republican officials from Arizona told Congress on Thursday that Maricopa County conducted a “free, fair and accurate election” in November, that Joe Biden won the state and that a Republican-commissioned review of nearly 2.1 million ballots in the county did not find the widespread fraud claimed by former president Donald Trump. The House Oversight Committee summoned Jack Sellers, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors; Bill Gates, vice chairman of the board; and Ken Bennett, a former Arizona secretary of state, to testify after the state Senate hired the Florida firm Cyber Ninjas to conduct a review. The six-month,...

The White House has ordered presidential record keepers to release a trove of Trump-era documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing unique circumstances compel their disclosure. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday the administration would back the committee’s sweeping efforts. "As a part of this process, the president has determined an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from the Trump White House that have been provided to us by the National Archives,” Psaki said.

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County sheriff says he will not enforce the county's vaccine mandate in his agency. Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who oversees the largest sheriff's department in the county with roughly 18,000 employees, said Wednesday in a Facebook Live event that he does not plan to carry out the county's mandate, under which Los Angeles County employees had to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1. The mandate was issued by executive order in August and allows only for religious and medical exemptions. Villanueva said his employees are willing to be terminated rather than get vaccinated.

As it turns out, all the scientists and doctors who insisted that Merck's "revolutionary" COVID drug molnupiravir is extremely safe weren't faithfully adhering to "the science" after all. Because according to a report published Thursday by Barron's, some scientists are worried that the drug - which purportedly cut hospitalizations in half during a study that was cut short - could cause cancer or birth defects.So much for having a "strong safety profile," as Dr. Scott Gottlieb claimed in an interview on the day Merck first publicized the research.It's perfectly understandable why Merck might choose to play down this safety risk:...

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former presidents over executive privilege. In a letter to the National Archives obtained by NBC News, White House Counsel Dana Remus rejected an attempt by Trump’s attorneys to withhold documents requested by the House Select Committee regarding the then-president’s activities on Jan. 6, writing that “President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over downtown Boston and the Boston Marathon race route, Friday, Oct. 8, through Monday, Oct. 11. NNSA’s Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) aircraft will measure naturally occurring background radiation as part of standard preparations to protect public health and safety on the day of the event. The aerial surveys are in support of the 2021 Boston Marathon. The public may see NNSA’s twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter, which is equipped with radiation sensing technology. The helicopter will fly in a grid pattern over the areas at...

3 part interview with Charles Hoskinson. excerpt from Part 3:A number of lawmakers likely write off crypto as just a right-wing techno-libertarian fantasy. How you might appeal to policymakers on the left like Elizabeth Warren and Janet Yellen, who have often publicly criticized cryptocurrencies from a variety of angles? The philosophical issue that I think is very difficult for people in certain areas of the left. If you are of the belief that everything needs to be controlled by a regulator, a bureaucracy, or the heavy hand of government, you're always going to be uncomfortable with a technology that says...