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Essential workers in the Northern Territory will be subject to one of the strictest Covid-19 vaccination mandates in the world to begin in just a month. Chief Minister Michael Gunner said employees who interacted with the public needed to get least one Covid-19 jab by November 13 or they wouldn’t be allowed back to work and faced a $5000 fine.

On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to go behind the scenes of her new book “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.” “After 2020, which was easily the weirdest national election we’ve gone through in memory — it was, you know, massive changes to election laws, massive changes to the procedures by which we handled voting, massive propaganda, massive tech suppression — like all these things that made people feel very uncomfortable about how things were done,” Hemingway said. “Then you weren’t allowed...

It’s been a month since Brian Laundrie vanished into thin air and internet sleuths have been busy imagining what the fugitive — the sole person of interest in Gabby Petito’s death — might look like now. Photoshopped pictures circulating online show the 23-year-old bald and bearded man sporting a decidedly more hirsute look — with long, unkempt hair and a much bushier beard, the Sun reported. Laundrie, who has not been named a suspect in his girlfriend’s death, is the subject of a massive manhunt and multiple sightings across several states after he never returned from what he told his...

A shadowy far-left “public health” organization and TV “pollster” Frank Luntz have teamed up to run a full court press COVID-19 disinformation campaign, with the goal of persuading governments on all levels to further mandate tyranny on the masses, while attempting to convince American citizens of the necessity of these orders. Since the beginning of COVID Mania, Luntz and his benefactors have manipulated language to gather support for totalitarian government edicts and further legitimize these radical anti-American ideas in the general population. For almost two years, Luntz and the Big Pharma-tied de Beaumont Foundation have been advocating for a variety...

13th October 1917 Fatima, Portugal Estimates of the number of people present range from 30,000 and 40,000, by Avelino de Almeida writing for the Portuguese newspaper O Século,[15] to 100,000, estimated by lawyer Dr. José Almeida Garrett, the son of a professor of natural sciences at the University of Coimbra.[16][17] Various claims have been made as to what actually happened during the event. According to many witnesses, after a period of rain, the dark clouds broke and the Sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It was said to be significantly duller than normal, and to cast...

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has just three months left in office, is quietly banishing a statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from City Hall’s council chambers — where it has resided for the past 187 years, The Post has learned. The city’s Public Design Commission — comprised of mayoral appointees — has listed “the long term loan” of the 1833 bronze cast of the Declaration of Independence author to the New-York Historical Society on its “consent” agenda for Monday. The consent designation means the historic statue’s removal is not scheduled for public debate. The 11-member design commission will vote...

CNN’s cable shows have salivated at least seven times over climate activist James Murdoch’s virtue-signaling against Fox News in the past year, all while ignoring any mention of an atrocious media scandal that nearly nuked his career. News blew up in 2011 on how the now-defunct U.K. newspaper News of the World was set to publish its last issue following a massive phone-hacking scandal that occurred in the mid-2000s, which ultimately led to its demise. News Corporation Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s estranged son James was executive chairman for News International — then-parent company of News of the World — at...

The New Jersey Devils hockey team and Prudential Financial announced on Wednesday that a Black-owned business logo will be featured on player helmets for 13 home games this season. The helmet patch asset, which is often used by companies for advertising, is being donated by Prudential Financial. As part of a sponsorship rights extension, Prudential will select a business to receive the ad exposure on Devils' player helmets starting Dec. 8 and continue for 13 selected home games. The helmet patch will provide a Black-owned business in-arena and TV ad exposure during Devils games. Prudential pledged to provide marketing consultation...

Boy, has President Trump got Gov. Charlie Baker’s number. I had POTUS on my radio show Monday and he generally seemed in a pretty mellow mood — he just chuckled when I played for him the soundbite of Dementia Joe Biden last week falsely bragging that “I started the vaccination program.” But when it comes to Baker — and at least one other RINO governor — it appears that Trump is on a revenge tour. Last week he endorsed ex-Rep. Geoff Diehl, Baker’s opponent in the GOP primary, so I asked Trump to expand on how he came to his...

Prominent Catholic bishop will lead retreat to atone for ‘abuse’ of aborted babies used for COVID vaccinesBishop Schneider will be in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 19 with the pro-life initiative One Heart One Mind, where he will lead a retreat and a holy hour. LINCOLN, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) – The resolutely pro-life Bishop Athanasius Schneider, well known for his prominent defense of Catholic Tradition, is visiting Lincoln, Nebraska to lead a pro-life retreat and holy hour in reparation for the use of aborted babies in medical research and in the development of medicines and consumer products. Tuesday October 19, will see...

Former President Barack Obama will campaign for New Jersey Gov. Phill Murphy (D) in the coming days, according to two sources familiar with planning. Details for the event are still being ironed out, the sources say. Obama is lending a hand to Murphy as polls show the governor leading his opponent Jack Ciattarelli 50 percent to 41 percent, according to a Stockton University poll. But Democrats say they are trying to generate higher-than-expected turnout in the key race.

There has been an arrest in a frightening attempted abduction in the Bronx. A man tried to take a little girl who was walking with her grandmother and siblings on Monday, but he then got away. However, he was taken into police custody hours later, CBS2’s Jenna DeAngelis reported. The video is shocking. Fear grips the grandmother and even the little girl’s siblings. Thankfully, good Samaritans intervened. While the suspect initially got away, CBS2 was told police later found him sleeping in the doorway of a nearby business and recognized him from the video. The surveillance footage shows the grandmother...

People who received Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine have higher antibody levels if their booster shot is from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, a new report suggests. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allegedly collected data showing that mixing-and-matching is more protective than getting two doses from the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company, a person who has seen the data told Axios. NIH officials plan to present the findings during a meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) vaccine advisory committee on Friday. It comes as J&J has asked the FDA to approve a shot of its own single-dose...

There’s a big change affecting America and its two closest neighbors. The U.S. will reopen its land borders with Canada and Mexico next month, allowing nonessential travel for the first time in more than a year and a half. As CBS2’s John Dias reports, in just a few weeks you can head on a train out of Penn Station to Canada once again. Both Mexico and Canada have pressed the U.S. for months to ease restrictions, saying it has separated families and stopped leisure trips. Wednesday, national leaders are readying land borders. Come next month, vehicle, rail and ferry travel...

A bakery has had to stop making one of its best-selling biscuits after being told it was topping the treats with illegal sprinkles. Get Baked in Leeds paused production after Trading Standards said the product contained a banned additive. Owner Rich Myers branded the decision "ridiculous" and said the alternative sprinkles on the market were "rubbish". West Yorkshire Trading Standards confirmed it had taken action after discovering the additive was in use. Mr Myers said: "I know it sounds like a small thing but it is a big deal for my business - we used them a lot. "Our best-selling...

A 13-year-old faces attempted murder, assault and harassment charges after opening fire at a Bronx playground. It happened inside Hunts Point Playground just before 6 p.m. Thursday. Surveillance video shows the child, who appears to be holding a gun. Police say he got into an argument with another 13-year-old boy and shot him in the knee. Investigators said the boy ran from the scene with four other people. Police say the boy’s mother recognized him from the surveillance video and turned him in. SNIP

Brian Laundrie’s father was spotted mowing his lawn in Florida Wednesday morning — less than 24 hours after Gabby Petito’s autopsy revealed she was strangled. In video shot by Fox News, Chris Laundrie ignored questions from reporters as he mowed and trimmed the grass around a makeshift memorial set up for Petito outside his North Port home. Chris refused to react when asked about Petito’s autopsy results, which showed she was manually strangled during her ill-fated cross-country road trip with his 23-year-old son. He also wouldn’t comment on his fugitive son, who has been the subject of a weeks-long manhunt...

Top O’ the Briefing Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Very few people look good in a serape. These are truly extraordinary times. Not the good kind of extraordinary either. While we are being subjected to the worst president in the history of this once-great Republic, standing right behind him waiting for the job is the most unlikeable woman in America not named Hillary Clinton. Purported Vice President Kamala Harris has largely been kept out of the spotlight by the cabal running joe Biden’s brain. That’s a bit of a mystery since almost anytime she gets near a camera...

... Now, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, has released a video boasting about the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and vowing another attack on the scale of 9/11 but even "more painful." The video, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, is titled "A Message to the American People: You Have Yet to Understand the Lesson." It features Ibrahim Al-Qousi, a former prisoner at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Al-Qousi said, regarding the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that "the greatest loss America suffered, besides its material and human losses, is its reputation...

Who came off worse in the Jon Gruden controversy – the lightning rod former coach of the Las Vegas Raiders or the egg-faced National Football League? It may come down to a coin toss. Gruden stepped down Monday after it was revealed, according to The New York Times, that he “used misogynistic and homophobic language for years, a review of his emails shows. He denounced the emergence of women referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of protests during the national anthem.” In one email after the then-St. Louis Rams drafted Michael Sam from Missouri, Gruden said...