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FDA Director, Janet Woodchuck, explained her decision on the Moderna "vaccine". Janet explained the decision to allow the continued use of the "vaccine", which weighed benefits versus risks, must be viewed in the proper context. The life and death risks to the "vaccine" recipients are real but must be considered in light that these risks are to the unwashed masses and useless eaters who are of no consequence. In fact, some risks could be considered 'undocumented' features, because the fatalities reduce current and future pension costs for private companies and the Federal Government. The financial benefits to Moderna management, FDA...

The California Police Chiefs Association said the bill is unworkable because it can require prosecutors to first prove the underlying crime without telling jurors that it was gang-motivated. A second bill signed by the governor ...requires judges to give “great weight” to mitigating circumstances that favor dismissing enhancements that can greatly extend the length of prison sentences, unless doing so would endanger public safety.

Americans are accustomed to a bowl of cereal as their go-to breakfast meal is about to experience a price increase because of rapid food inflation. This year, a devastating drought in North American oat fields has resulted in the lowest harvest for the cereal grain in years, pushing prices to record highs, a warning sign that breakfast inflation is imminent. Scorching heat waves in Candian oat fields slashed production to an 11-year low. Canada, the world’s biggest exporter, ships most of its oats to the US, its largest consumer. The result so far has been a new record high in...

Dave Chappelle was met with thunderous applause from his fellow celebrities during a Thursday screening of a biographical film chronicling his life - days after sparking controversy by backing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling in her highly-publicized spat with the transgender community. 'If this is what being canceled is like, I love it,' the 48-year-old funnyman said Thursday night to a star-studded audience at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. Chappelle had faced furious backlash from the LGBTQ community for making remarks in his latest Netflix special, The Closer, that some have claimed are transphobic. In the stand-up special - his sixth...

Europa, a 1931 anti-fascist film made by a Polish Jewish couple that was thought destroyed by the Nazis, has been restored and was shown this week for the first time in 80 years. The film, shot in Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s bedroom in Warsaw, was based on Anatol Stern’s 1925 same titled poem, and was a statement about Europe’s increasing descent into violence and chaos. ..... The 12-minute film, making use of collages and photograms, is considered Poland’s first famous avant-garde film. n 1938, the couple fled to France where they left all five copies of their movie with Paris’s...

Bizarre footage from a parade in Covid-free Western Australia has gone viral, showing children dressed up and prisoners in a cage dancing on an unofficial 'police' float. The video, posted to TikTok on Tuesday, captures the float driving past crowds at the Perth Royal Show. The float, which features police insignia, includes a large cage with two children dressed up as prisoners sitting inside. The children can be seen waving at crowds as other children dance around them on the road. The woman who posted the video has pointed out the irony of the use of the song 'Happy' by...

This seems like an explosive relationship. A Maine woman was so desperate to spend time with her boyfriend that she made bomb threats at his workplace so he could get the day off, police said Friday. Kayla Blake, 33, was arrested on a felony terrorizing charge after police tracked down the caller and learned she never had any bombs, authorities said. The woman’s bizarre attempt to get her boyfriend out of work happened Thursday in the city of Pittsfield. The suspect is accused of calling state police two separate times that day claiming she was going to bomb Puritan Medical...

With just days to go before the Southern Beltway opens Friday, construction crews scurried throughout the 13-mile corridor to button up final details on the $900 million project. The work included painting lines and installing signs to guide motorists; stabilizing walls beneath bridges that pass over the roadway so construction crews won’t have to dodge traffic when the road opens; finishing the structure of some of those bridges; and seeding and planting along the median and hillsides or placing stones in areas where growing has failed. “We have things like line-striping to do, some signage to get done before the...

A Sudanese delegation made up of senior security and military officials visited Israel earlier this week to discuss relations between the two countries, the Al-Arabiya network reported on Friday. No details were provided about the meetings. Sudan became the third Arab country to normalize ties with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump Administration in October, 2020, following the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The agreement between Israel and Sudan was announced days after then-US President Donald Trump officially removed Sudan from the list of nations that sponsor and finance terrorism. However, despite the agreement, no...

This is for all of you who have recently been wondering, “What the hell is going on down there?”, in the nation within the map above. The rumours you may have heard, along with many news reports, have recently portrayed the situation here as being dire and dark, without hope, describing a nation goose-stepping into totalitarianism. Those rumours, those reports, are basically correct.(snip) I will attempt to give a rather brief summary in point form of the situation as it currently is within this ‘MyTake’, because to do otherwise, to attempt to go into detail, would entail writing a book....

That 70s Show is coming back with a 90s-set spinoff. Netflix has ordered ten episodes of That 90s Show which will star Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, who played Red and Kitty Forman in the original Fox sitcom, according to a report from Variety on Friday. Red and Kitty were the parents of lead character Eric Forman (Topher Grace) and their home was the setting for most of the show's episodes, notably the basement where Eric would hang out with his friends Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon), Jackie Burkhart (Mila Kunis), Steven Hyde (Danny Masterson), Michael Kelso (Ashton Kutcher), and...

Three decades ago, when I was still living in my birth city of New York — where no one gives a second thought to jaywalking — I was visiting Los Angeles and walking downtown. I did something I had always done at home: cross the street on a “don’t walk” sign. An officer stopped me and asked to see my ID. I asked what for. He said I walked on a “don’t walk” signal and wrote me a ticket. At first I thought this was a joke. The cop claimed he was from New York too and said the reason...

Brett Wynkoop embodies many of the traits that have made his neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a stereotype of a liberal enclave. He lives in a century-old brownstone on a leafy street, used to run a local community opera, and is a member of the Park Slope Food Coop, whose far-left political infighting has become the subject of frequent parody. So his campaign to represent his neighborhood, along with similarly gentrified Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, in New York’s City Council might seem like a natural progression. But Wynkoop, 62, has one attribute that puts him at odds with other...

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A use of force expert testified that Kyle Rittenhouse’s decision to shoot three rioters was justified at a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday. “A citizen in that position, given those indicators, would it be reasonable for them to believe they were about to be assaulted?” said use of force expert John Black. “I would argue yes.” Black spent hours analyzing the shootings and the events leading up to them. Rittenhouse is facing multiple charges, including homicide, for shooting Kenosha rioters Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz on Aug. 25, 2020. Rosenbaum and Huber were killed while Grosskreutz was wounded after...

Pope Francis has met with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who has come under criticism from some bishops in the United States for her support for abortion rights. Their meeting took place in Vatican City on Saturday, several weeks before Joe Biden is expected to meet the Pope when the the president is in Rome for talks between leaders of the Group of 20 major economies. The Vatican announced Pelosi's audience with the Pope in its daily bulletin but gave no details. Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, has said he is personally opposed to abortion but, as...

So far, just 14 businesses — out of 27,500 inspected — have been hit with fines by the city for disobeying new vaccination rules. The $1,000 fines doled out so far come as another 6,760 businesses were warned about failing to enforce the city’s mandate, which requires patrons produce proof of vaccination to enter places like restaurants, bars, museums, and theaters. The city declined to identify the violators. City businesses that disregard the mandate face a warning, followed by a $1,000 fine for a first offense, $2,000 for the second, and $5,000 for each additional violation.... Enforcement of the mandate...

The Justice Centre today responded to the federal government announcement that unvaccinated Canadians will lose their right to move and travel freely within Canada, their right to leave Canada, and their right to earn a living and participate in society without discrimination. “The government is seeking to have 100% of Canadians injected with the experimental mRNA vaccine, which has not been subjected to any long-term testing on humans,” states lawyer John Carpay, President of the Justice Centre. With the Canada-U.S. land border closed to non-essential travel, this Covid-19 vaccine travel mandate will effectively prevent unvaccinated people from leaving Canada in...

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel paid tens of thousands of dollars to a woman he was dating during his 2018 Senate campaign, while married to another woman. FEC reports show that Rachel Wilson, Mandel’s finance director and mistress, was paid more than $100,000 between his 2018 campaign and a PAC supporting his candidacy. It’s widely known that Mandel was in an affair with Wilson at the time. He ended his campaign citing his wife’s health, later divorcing her in 2020 to continue his affair with Wilson. Three dozen Republican women, including three women who left Mandel’s campaign citing a...

COVID-19 metrics in southern states like Florida have plummeted in recent weeks while rising in many northern states, including heavily vaccinated ones. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mississippi, for instance, have plunged some 95 percent from the peak of 5,018 on Aug. 19 to just 268 on Oct. 7. COVID-19 related hospitalizations in the state, one of the worst-hit in the nation, dropped from 1,667 on Aug. 19 to 403 on Thursday. Similar drops have been recorded in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, and Texas. At the same time, metrics have been rising in many northern states, including those in New England....