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Sen. Tom Cotton sparred with Attorney General Merrick Garland and called for his resignation during an intense exchange at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. The back-and-forth concerned a memo that Garland issued on October 4... ..."This is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court," Cotton said, referring to Garland's 2016 nomination for the bench by former President Barack Obama....

A member of the Oath Keepers who was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is running for the New Jersey State Assembly. Edward Durfee Jr., a tech consultant running as a Republican, did not enter the Capitol during the riots and has condemned the violence that took place that day, The New York Times reported. Durfee has said he was there to protest perceived election fraud as part of an Oath Keeper security detail, according to the Times. “We weren’t enforcers,” Durfee said to the Times. “We were just there as eyes.” He added that the events of Jan....

A California longshoreman, who works at California’s San Pedro Bay Port Complex, reportedly said the labor unions are exascerbating the supply chain crisis. Identified as Alfred to Yahoo News, the longshoreman blamed Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) for “cutting the work” at the port, which is increasing the jam of containers stuck at sea and on the docks. “They’re [PMA] the ones who are not training: skilled positions. [That] means crane operators, top handler drivers, trans drivers,” said Alfred. “They’re the ones who are keeping the ships out there at sea anchored.” Despite the delays and mounting shipping costs American families...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this — at least virtually. Researchers at one of Switzerland’s top universities are releasing open-source beta software on Tuesday that allows for virtual visits through the cosmos including up to the International Space Station, past the Moon, Saturn or exoplanets, over galaxies and well beyond.... ...VIRUP is accessible to everyone for free — though it does require at least a computer and is best visualized with VR equipment or 3D capabilities.... ...To be sure, VR games and representations already exist...But the EPFL team says VIRUP goes much farther...

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is holding a virtual meeting Tuesday October 26 to discuss authorizing a Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus vaccine for children between the ages of 5 to 11 years old. This committee has a lot of sway with the FDA and their findings will be relevant, considering the Biden administration is getting ready to ship vaccines to elementary schools and California has already mandated the vaccine for schoolchildren pending federal authorization. But the meeting roster shows that numerous members of the committee and temporary voting members have worked for Pfizer or have major connections to...

Westwood One radio host Dan Bongino is off the air this week after blasting the parent company for its vaccine mandate. Cumulus Media, which owns the radio network, told employees that they were required to be vaccinated by the end of September so that they could return to the office Oct. 11. The Dan Bongino Show will be broadcasting "best of" shows for the rest of the week, Radio Ink reported Wednesday. "Friends, Dan is in a tough battle with his radio show syndicator over these immoral, unscientific vaccine mandates," Bongino Report tweeted late Tuesday afternoon. "We don't know what's...

Brian Dressen, Ph.D., who is a chemist with an extensive background in researching and assessing the degree of efficacy in new technologies, told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Pfizer’s vaccine “failed any reasonable risk-benefit calculus in connection with children.”The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory committee on Tuesday endorsed Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, despite strong objections raised during the meeting by multiple scientists and physicians.Brian Dressen, Ph.D., is one of the scientists who testified during the 8-hour hearing.Dressen is also the husband of Brianne Dressen, who developed a severe neurological injury during the...

It has been exactly a year since Chinese businessman Jack Ma publicly criticised his communist government and since then he’s lost hundreds of billions of dollars of his vast fortune. Over the last 12 months, his business, Alibaba — pegged as China’s version of eBay, Amazon and PayPal all rolled into one — has lost around US$373 billion (A$497 billion). According to Bloomberg, Alibaba’s fall from grace is the single biggest financial loss a business has ever endured. On October 24 last year, Mr Ma made a now-infamous speech at a business summit where he went viral for condemning the...

After watching the news, the ships anchored in the Pacific, the empty grocery shelves, the lazy people that would rather stay home and live off of my tax dollars instead of getting a job, forcing folks that have had COVID get a shot that MAY damage them years from now, gasoline that is over $1.30 more than it was last summer, promoting 227,000 different genders, teaching gay pride in our elementary schools, turning the United States of America into the United Socialist America, giving special status to illegal aliens while forcing hard working Americans (what few of us are left)...

More of those who now die with covid-19 have been vaccinated. It is still mainly about the elderly, but vaccine experts still see a tendency towards declining vaccine protection in Sweden.- Fully vaccinated people generally have good protection, but this means that you should continue to be especially careful this autumn, says vaccine expert Farshid Jalalvand.The restrictions are gone and for many, life has returned to what it was before the pandemic. But for 81-year-old Mona Serenius, the situation does not feel as positive as she had expected. Because she has followed the news reporting closely, she has heard about...

Biden admin silent as lawmakers worry it seeks to normalize relations with Assad The Biden administration’s decision to grant the cousin of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad a U.S. visa is drawing outrage on Capitol Hill and generating concerns the United States seeks to normalize relations with Assad and unwind sanctions on his embattled government. Ali Makhlouf, the son of U.S.-sanctioned Syrian business tycoon Rami Makhlouf and Assad’s cousin, was seen in Los Angeles earlier this month driving a $300,000 Ferrari. His appearance raised questions about how he was able to obtain a U.S. visa, given his father’s presence on the...

The last COVID-19 checkpoints removed from Ho Chi Minh City entrances on Tuesday evening per a new decision issued by the municipal People’s Committee. The decision also stipulated the removal of 39 roadblocks along the border between Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Works on removing those 51 checkpoints in the city began at 6:00 pm on Tuesday. (Please see link for full article)

A Minnesota surgeon believes he was fired from his job after telling school officials that parents should have the choice of whether or not their children wear masks to school. Dr. Jeffrey Horak spoke before the school board at a public meeting in the town of Fergus Falls on October 11. He gave a speech against the school's temporary mask mandate, which had gone into effect the day prior. 'You mandate this across the road - that's a tough place to go,' Horak told the board. He then suggested there was a higher power in charge of the students' behavior...

A sharp rise in the number of children in the United States who identify as transgender has alarmed some parents. As these numbers grow, three mothers share the warning signs of transgender indoctrination.The Child Transgender Numbers ExplosionA study conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics released in May 2020 showed nearly 10 percent of high school students in just one school district identified as gender-diverse. That 10 percent figure is far higher than past estimates, such as a 2017 government survey of U.S. high school students that indicated only 1.8 percent said they identified as transgender. While some studies suggest...

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A Colorado county health department has backed away, for now, from a plan to create what has been described as a de-facto vaccine passport system. The Larimer County Board of Health announced Oct. 21 that it had made its decision to pause implementation of the plan, “based on the feedback and questions we received” from the public. The voluntary plan is called the Vaccine Verified Facility and Event Program (VVFE). It asks businesses, churches, and other venues, to post a sign on the door stating proof of vaccination is required of all individuals seeking to enter the premises. The plan...

The governor of Texas on Monday signed a law that bars student athletes from playing on sports teams that do not match the sex listed on their birth certificate.The bill is aimed at restoring rights granted to women under Title IX, its authors say.Texas House Bill 25 (pdf) requires most interscholastic athletic teams from letting students compete in competitions “that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student ’s biological sex as correctly stated on” their official birth certificate.The bill “protects girls’ safety and their right to equal access to athletic opportunities,” state Rep. Valoree Swanson, one of...

The Florida Department of Education withheld more than $600,000 this month from two counties that are openly defying the state’s restriction on blanket mask mandates.The move is in open defiance of the Biden administration, which had warned in a letter on Monday that the federal government “is prepared to initiate enforcement action to stop these impermissible state actions.”The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) withheld $164,000 from Alachua County and $455,000 from Broward County. The two amounts consist of a portion of the salaries of the school board members for each county as well as the full amount of federal grants...

Congressional Republicans are pushing proposals to exempt millions of American workers who object to President Joe Biden’s mandatory CCP virus vaccination orders and similar decrees by employers, which are prompting widespread protests and costing many workers their jobs.Biden has ordered all federal military and civilian employees to be vaccinated, as well as those employed by federal contractors and entities receiving federal support, in connection with the government’s many virus recovery programs.A new federal regulation is also being prepared that will require all private companies with 100 or more employees to make vaccination a condition of employment. The regulation is to...

Our favorite Based Iranian Father returned to the Loudoun County School Board last night. Rather, I should call him Master Based Iranian Father. The last time we saw him, he said "Master" is his preferred pronoun. Master B.I.F. returned to express his disagreement over how the school board covered up one or two alleged rapes that happened in the school. You wanna push that garbage down my kid's throats, I will make you call my kids KING and QUEEN. That's how you will address my son and daughter. And when you look at me, you will call me Master." Barack...