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As whistleblowers continue to dump documents revealing internal Facebook discussions about controlling content, one thing is striking: The thousands of pages released so far contain zero signs of staff worries about (or even awareness of) left-wing hate speech and misinformation. Perhaps we’re only seeing part of the picture. But Facebook staffers’ incessant drive to censor right-wing stories and sites suggests they really are blind to the often-outrageous speech from outlets on the other side of the spectrum. The Wall Street Journal’s blockbuster report this week detailed how the social-media giant’s “employees have consistently pushed to suppress or de-platform right-wing outlets.”...

“It really is going to be a question of what the prevailing conditions are,” Rubin said. “But we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes.”

Conventional wisdom holds that best friends make the worst enemies. Should China keep this saying in mind regarding its relationship with Russia? Currently, enmity between the two partners seems a remote possibility, especially after President Vladimir Putin praised Beijing openly at the recent Russian Energy Week conference. However, despite the harmonious public pronouncements, Sino-Russian rapprochement may not be able to completely conceal the emerging irritation of Russian elites toward Beijing. Professor Alexander Lukin’s latest article in the Washington Quarterly notes this change. Back in 2018, his book “China and Russia: The New Rapprochement” discussed the promise of Sino-Russian cooperation. In...

The U.S. Navy still isn’t positive what one of its most powerful attack submarines hit in the South China Sea, as repair assessments continue in Guam, four sources familiar with the results of the preliminary investigations told USNI News this week. As of Tuesday afternoon, the undersea object that damaged the forward section of USS Connecticut (SSN-22) had not been definitively determined as part of several investigations into the Oct. 2 incident, the sources said. Early indications were Connecticut hit a seamount in the South China Sea, two defense officials familiar with the Navy’s examination of the submarines told USNI...

Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko @DrZevZelenko I am a conspiracy realist, part 1:Vanguard and Black Rock are stake holders in all industry, media, academia, and politics. Vanguard and Black Rock invest in each other through something called circular ownership. Thus, consider Vanguard and Black Rock as a monopoly that owns everything. With due diligence you will discover that the major stake holders of this monopoly are -Rothschild family -Du Pont family -Rockefeller family -Carnegie family -Orsini Family -American Bush family -British Royal family They use the following foundations to ferment chaos around the world Bill and Melinda Gates foundation Soros Open...

According to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index, President Joe Biden is losing support when it comes to those who think his administration can "ensure the economy recovers quickly after the COVID-19 pandemic." While 52 percent were confident in January, that number is now at 44 percent. What is particularly relevant is where the drop is coming from. In her Tuesday write-up for Axios, Margaret Talev warns that the confidence in Biden's Covid recovery is tumbling. She goes on to note that "It's Democrats and independents driving the declining economic confidence, from 52% of all U.S. adults at...

The story begins with Christine Grady, head of Human Subjects Research and Chief of the Department of Bioethics for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Christine Grady was an Obama appointee under the Presidential Commission for the Study of Biological Issues from 2010 – 2017. This commission was designed to study the effects of biological intervention on human subjects rather than lab animals. The program was never implemented due to ethical issues, however, under the present worldwide COVID-19 pandemic EMERGENCY, fear has overcome all vaccine safety protocols, opening the door for shortened vaccine development times, using humans as testing guinea...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A flight from New York to California was diverted after a passenger physically assaulted a flight attendant on Wednesday. According to American Airlines, Flight 976 from JFK International Airport to John Wayne Airport in southern California, made an emergency landing in Denver after a passenger physically assaulted the flight attendant....It's unclear what led up to the assault.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to pull back a memo directing the FBI to help local police address reported harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against educators and school board members under questioning from Sen. Mike Lee on Wednesday. The Utah Republican pointed out that the National School Boards Association has apologized for a letter to President Joe Biden last month... “Will you rescind your letter?” Lee asked Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.... ...Lee said he and his staff went through every news source mentioned in the school board association’s letter. “There was no explicit death threat and...

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...