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In off-the-record call with congressional staff, Biden admin says nearly 400 still stranded The Biden administration is in touch with nearly 400 Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan, a figure that far exceeds the administration's claims that about 100 Americans were left in the nation following the United States' hurried exit from Kabul, according to a senior congressional source who was briefed Thursday by the State Department. With Afghanistan in the administration's rear-view mirror, U.S. officials are providing exact figures on the number of Americans who are still stranded and want to leave—although they are doing so in private, off-the-record...

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion reached in 2020. The deficits in both years reflect trillions of dollars in government spending to counteract the devastating effects of a global pandemic. The Biden administration said Friday that deficit for the budget year that ended Sept. 30 was $360 billion lower than 2020, as a recovering economy boosted revenues, helping to offset government spending from pandemic relief efforts. Before the deficit ballooned during two years of a global pandemic, the biggest deficit had been...

Last week we told you how the Covid-19 vaccines were proving to have a collective negative effictiveness in everyone over the age of 30 in the UK as low as minus-one-hundred-and-nine-percent. Today we can reveal that the latest report available from the UK Health Security Agency, which has recently replaced Public Health England, shows that the Covid-19 vaccines are now proving to have negative effectiveness in everyone over the age of 30 in the UK as low as minus-one-hundred-and-twenty-four-percent.Pfizer claim that there Covid-19 mRNA injection has a vaccine effectiveness of 95%. They were able to claim this because of the...

Red Flag warning! Blue Bloods Gun Safety Amateur Hour! David Codrea highlights an incident on the set of Tom Selleck’s television show “Blue Bloods” wherein Mr Selleck chastises a bit player for “waving a real gun around with his finger on the trigger”. In news reports NRA Director Tom Selleck is cast heroically for his response to the extra’s faux pas. Aside from the well established notion it is bad juju to publicly humiliate “the little people” the larger point should not be ignored as well: if you have joined a ship of fools about to wreck in the shoals...

Premier Daniel Andrews, a politician from the Australian state of Victoria has announced that people who are “fully vaccinated” against Covid-19 will only remain as such if they agree to receive all existing and future booster shots.In a presentation, Andrews explained that there will be no freedoms for the “unvaccinated” in 2022 – and by unvaccinated, he also means people who stop at one or two jabs.real Rukshan on Twitter: "Premier Daniel Andrews today stated.... https://t.co/YP0uQj2bFM" / TwitterAndrews stated: “If you make the judgment to not get vaccinated, and you reckon you can wait out us or the public …...

The latest figures published by the new UK Health Security Agency on Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths show that the Covid-19 injections still don’t seem to be working.The ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report – Week 42’ was published by the UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) on Thursday, 21st October 2021 and it shows that the vast majority of Covid-19 hospitalisations between September 20th and October 17th were among the fully vaccinated population.Table 3 of the report shows that the number of people presenting to emergency care with Covid-19 resulting in overnight inpatient admission who were not-vaccinated was 2,534, whilst...

ransomnote: I believe China's Puppet intends to collapse all medical and commerce to complete the 'reset' and install CCP style Communism so these hospital closures are not 'mistakes.A hospital in Maine fired so many of its employees for being unvaccinated that it was forced to close its intensive care unit (ICU) because it didn’t have enough workers to staff it.Administrators of Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston, Maine, implemented a vaccine mandate demanding all employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine. However, more than 250 workers refused to comply before the deadline, resulting in their termination.Unfortunately for patients, about 170 of the...

All photos by Fred Sokol. Cleveland, OH – An ambulance and a fire unit were dispatched to Preterm, a Cleveland, Ohio, abortion facility, on October 15, 2021, for a 20-year-old woman who may have had a hole torn in her uterus during a 19-week second trimester abortion. An evasive caller from Preterm was reluctant to give details about the woman’s condition and what led them to suspect a uterine perforation had occurred. Defective elevator About two minutes into the 3 minute 49 second call, she finally informed the 911 operator that the elevator, which is the only gurney access to...

Two early investors in blank-check company Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC.O) sold their holdings as news emerged that it was merging with former President Donald Trump's new media venture. Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, who runs Saba Capital Management, and Lighthouse Investment Partners, said they had exited without giving a precise time for the sales or price at which they cashed out. "I knew that for Saba the right thing was to sell our entire stake of unrestricted shares, which we have now done," Weinstein said in a statement. The firm sold on Thursday. Lighthouse said on Friday that it...

Southwest Airlines’ CEO said the company will not fire employees who do not get the COVID-19 vaccine by Dec. 9 following a Biden administration mandate that was announced last month for federal contractors. In a statement to news outlets Friday, the Dallas-based carrier confirmed to Fox News it does not want to “lose any employee” over President Joe Biden’s mandate, adding that firing a worker over the vaccine “makes no sense.” It came a day after Southwest CEO Gary Kelly made a similar announcement during an earnings call. “This is an evolving process working with the government in terms of...

Press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday refused to say how White House staffers select reporters allowed into recent presidential events. The secretive practice has outraged journalists as officials give inconsistent explanations on how they screen who is allowed within earshot of President Biden. In recent months, the White House press office has cherry-picked reporters allowed into Biden events in the nearly 3,000-square foot East Room and even on the lawn by citing dubious “spacing constraints” — despite no such constraints in the much-smaller briefing room, where 49 seated reporters and many standing ones have gathered every day since COVID-19 limits...

An Amish teen is facing driving under the influence charges after an officer stopped his traveling horse and buggy and reportedly found him passed out inside, according to a police account. New Wilmington police have charged 19-year-old Enos S. Byler of 129 Leesburg Station Road following the stop that occurred around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 8 on Route 208 in New Wilmington Borough. According to a criminal complaint, a Westminster College public safety officer notified the police that he had passed the horse and buggy going west and saw a male driver who appeared to be unconscious. A responding officer unsuccessfully...

Except for a short period in 2020, 29 March to 12 April, the number of deaths due to all causes rarely ventured outside the usual high-low range for the previous five years – when they did the number was actually lower than the five-year average.Then, in March 2021 deaths began to rise until in April they exceeded the March/April peak of the “2020 pandemic.” Two months prior to 2021 deaths reaching 2020 “pandemic” levels, Australia had launched its Covid injection campaign.There will be those who claim the so-called “Covid pandemic” would have been “worse” if governments had not responded as...

Supreme Court Justice Mary Jane Theis wrote in a 6-0 decision that the taxes violate the constitution’s uniformity clause. She noted revenue from the tax isn't directed toward funds or programs to curb the costs of gun violence or reduce the violence.

Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) on Thursday introduced legislation to create a special envoy that would “monitor and combat Islamophobia” around the globe. “The bill requires the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, and include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity in the Department’s annual human rights reports,” Omar said in a press release.

Whenever I prepare to write something for the newsletter, I try to go through recent news about things happening in the Church to glean some inspiration or I look for a saint-related story that applies to the current crisis in the Church. This week, as I was perusing the news, I started reading about Pope Francis’ address to the World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM) … an initiative he started in 2017. Several news sources grabbed the low-hanging fruit of Pope Francis’ call for “big tech” to enact further censorship protocols. In his address, Pope Francis said:“In the name of...

Records Reveal Coordinated Effort to Advance CRT Initiatives in Loudoun County Judicial Watch Sues Asheville Over Racially Discriminatory Scholarship Program Federal Agencies Unveil Plans to Combat “Anti-Voter Burdens” of People of Color Critical Race Theory Roils Virginia Governor Race Records Reveal Coordinated Effort to Advance CRT Initiatives in Loudoun County Loudoun County in Virginia is the center of the storm on Critical Race Theory. School district officials there are obsessed with pushing, often dishonestly, the CRT agenda. We learned this from 3,597 pages of records we received from the county. They reveal a coordinated effort to advance CRT initiatives...

Addressing Radical Leftists, Pope Francis Demands Global Tyranny to Enforce a Return to Medieval AusterityPope Francis offers his services as chaplain to our Oligarchy. Pilgrims at the Vatican display the pagan fertility goddess, Pachamama, which Pope Francis venerated during church services in Rome.In case anyone was still fooling himself on the subject, Pope Francis is not “apolitical,” not a figure who “transcends left and right.” In fact, I’m driven to ask if he is really a Christian leader of any kind. Having helped to edit one of his books and followed his statements for years, I don’t know what religious...

Nerve disorder Guillain Barre Syndrome has been officially added as a side effect for the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine branded as Covishield in India.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency of UK has added a serious nerve disorder as a possible side effect to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after a handful of cases were linked to the jab.Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) itself is a rare nerve disorder that can cause paralysis, but recent data has shown the likelihood “of a possible association” to the vaccine “has strengthened,” according to the regulatory agency.Of the millions who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine, there were...

A third wrote: “Snakes on a crane.” It is not clear what kind of snake appears in the video. Dominica, a Caribbean paradise measuring just 29 miles long and 16 miles wide, has been dubbed 'the Nature Island' thanks to its array of wildlife.