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Queenslanders who received fines for breaking Covid-19 rules risk having their homes seized and bank accounts frozen in a government crackdown to collect $5.2 million in repayments. The State Penalties Enforcement Register is expected to collect 3,046 unpaid fines from the pandemic on behalf of Queensland Health. More than 2,755 fines were from individuals and businesses accused of breaking Covid-19 restrictions and the rest either still under investigation or pending payment. About 56.4 per cent of fines have already been paid in full or are being paid off on a payment plan. SPER said enforcement for people who failed to...

these confusing times, many people are rightfully turning to the Torah for clarity and guidance. Unfortunately, it is easy for those with ulterior motives to cherry-pick Torah sources, take them out of context, misinterpret them, and misapply them to suit their agenda. It is therefore necessary to elucidate the 15 main religious reasons that it is forbidden according to the Torah to take the so-called “Covid-19 vaccines”. 1. The Torah commands us in Devarim 4:15 to exceedingly guard our lives. Ironically, this is the main source for those who claim we are obligated to take these injections. In reality, this...

The social network, under fire for spreading misinformation and other issues, said the change was part of its bet on a next digital frontier called the metaverse.

The Biden administration is reportedly considering paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to migrant families separated at the southern border during the Trump administration, about $1 billion in total. Officials from the departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Justice have proposed paying each person $450,000, or nearly $1 million per two-person family, to settle claims about the lasting traumatic and psychological effects of being torn apart as a result of former President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday afternoon.

President Biden climate and social services bill is expected to include $150 billion for affordable housing creation and financial assistance, elating supporters who feared it would be cut from the package. The White House on Thursday released a framework for Biden’s “Build Back Better Act,” the roughly $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation package, that included billions of dollars meant to put 1 million affordable homes on the market and help thousands of Americans find stable housing. The housing component was cut down significantly from the $327 billion Democrats initially sought. Even so, the bill would still spend more than three times...

Buried on Page 14 in the Pfizer paperwork submitted to the FDA for the Covid vaccine for children is this disturbing nugget. Vaccine formulation Authorization is being requested for a modified formulation of the Pfizer‑BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Each dose of this formulation contains 10 μg of a nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding the viral spike (S) glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 that is formulated in lipid particles and supplied as a frozen suspension in multiple dose vials. To provide a vaccine with an improved stability profile, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for use in children 5-11 years of age uses tromethamine (Tris) buffer...

"The U.S. is in talks to offer immigrant families separated at the border in 2018 about $450,000 a person in compensation" -WSJ Note this is per person. If four kids got separated from two parents, that's a $2.7 million dollar payment to that one illegal immigrant family alone. So US taxpayers will now be showering money on illegal immigrants for attempting to use their children as pawns. Also note that Biden himself is still "separating families at the border." Because you have to. He's separating fewer families because he's using secret darkflights to fly illegal immigrants into the heartland, but...

The cheapest member of the Raspberry Pi computer family now has a successor: the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W , A 64-bit, quad-core follow-up to Zero W costing just $15. Launched today by British computer-maker Raspberry Pi, the Pi Zero 2 W features a 1GHZ CPU that the manufacturer claims packs 5x the performance for multithread workloads than 2015's Raspberry Pi Zero. The 65mm x 30mm board features a quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, clocked at 1GHz. At its heart is a Raspberry Pi RP3A0 system-in-package (SiP), integrating a Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC (the same used in the Raspberry Pi 3,...

If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place. To the students and faculty of our high school: I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people. I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country. First, this school will...

Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to be arrested next week and charged with a misdemeanor in the alleged groping of a former aide, The Post has learned.

Ousted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with forcible touching, two months after being pushed out of office by New York AG Attorney General Letitia James, the woman now campaigning for his job. -snip- If convicted, Cuomo - who has not yet commented - could face up to one year in prison. The announcement of the charge was chaotic on Thursday; the criminal summons was filed hastily, before sheriff's deputies had received the permission of Commisso. It was then leaked to a local reporter in Albany, who tweeted about it and published a brief report on New York...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) indicated Thursday she may accept President Joe Biden’s rebranded $1.85 trillion reconciliation framework. Her potential blessing on the framework could be enough to convince the far-left to unlock the $2.1 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure bill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA is attempting to pass Thursday.

Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to be arrested next week and charged with a misdemeanor in the alleged groping of a former aide, The Post has learned. The anticipated charge is the result of a probe by Albany County District Attorney David Soares, a source briefed in the matter said Thursday. A spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration confirmed that a misdemeanor complaint against Cuomo “has been filed in Albany City Court.” “As this is a sex crime, a redacted complaint will be available shortly,” spokesman Lucian Chalfen added.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe reportedly bought ads promoting what Fox News called a “fake news” website to boost his image on social media. And the broadcast evening news shows censored it. Fox News reported Oct. 27 that the former Virginia Governor McAuliffe (D) spent “nearly $100,000 advertising ‘fake news’ websites on Facebook during the Virginia gubernatorial campaign.” In addition to McAuliffe’s account on Facebook, he also “operates another Facebook page that blurs the lines between a political campaign and disinformation,” reported Fox News. ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News all ignored the story during...

A 28-year-old bodybuilder died “unexpectedly” four days after receiving his second dose of Moderna’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine, posts on social media reveal. A Facebook update shows FedEx driver Jake Kazmarek from Rochester, New York, received his second Moderna jab on Sept. 28. “Boom done is what it is,” Kazmarek wrote. “U can hold out as long as u want but you won’t have much freedom I’m over it I did it . Does it make me a sheep ? No . I have asthma and I’m a uncle to some awesome little kids u don’t like it . Uk what...

Washington — As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in a pair of cases over a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state, the Justice Department and abortion providers are warning that if the high court allows the measure's novel enforcement mechanism to stand, it will open the door for other states to pass their own laws targeting rights they disagree with. "If Texas gets away with this ploy, the constitutional right to abortion will be the first but certainly not the last target of states unwilling to accept federal law with which they disagree," abortion...

As President Joe Biden jets off to Europe to meet with allies, some of the United States' closest partners are still wondering if America is truly "back" as Biden proclaimed earlier this year. Cautious about Biden's domestic standing, and smarting from his lack of coordination on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, they are concerned whether his presidency truly represents a break from the isolationist, confrontational foreign policies of his predecessor, President Donald Trump, according to U.S. foreign policy experts. Biden's second trip abroad as president will take him to Rome and Scotland, where he'll attend international summits aimed at tackling the...

Rep. Ro Khanna asks, 'What do you have to say to Americans' children born into a burning world?' "Do you agree climate change is a threat to our existence?" Maloney asked Shell president Gretchen Watkins. "Chairwoman, I agree that climate change is one of the biggest challenges that we have in the world today, which is why at Shell we’re in action on providing lower and no-carbon products to our customers," Watkins responded. "We believe this is something we’re all in together, we need to work in collaboration with society, with governments, with other companies, and other industries." Not satisfied...

@WSJ The U.S. is in talks to offer immigrant families separated at the border in 2018 about $450,000 a person in compensation, people familiar with the matter say

Truth Social, the new social media platform that Donald Trump says he is rolling out, will combat censorship and the “self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters” who the former president said decide what everyone else is allowed to “think, say, share, and do.” The ex-president, who was banned from Twitter after a mob of his supporters fueled by false claims about last year’s election invaded the Capitol to stop the Electoral College vote certification, in a lengthy statement framed his effort as an attack on Big Tech and what he said was its censorship. “The corruption of these platforms cannot be...