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8:00 AM The House will convene at 8 a.m. Friday to begin work on passing President Biden's $1.75 trillion social spending and climate package, which has been stuck in a battle within the party between liberals and centrists fighting over its size and shape. The internal battles, which have also gridlocked a bipartisan infrastructure bill already approved by the Senate, have been blamed for pulling down Biden's approval ratings, and for a dismal showing by the party in Tuesday's off-year elections, when Democrats lost the governor's race in Virginia — where Biden won by 10 points just a year ago....

As most of my followers on social media and Substack must know by now, I have spent a considerable amount of time the last two years trying to discover the actual ingredients of the new COVID vaccines. The reason is simple: Big Pharma has gone to considerable trouble to hide them. Do the Big Pharma companies want to submit the vaccines to independent analysis? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies want to disclose all the ingredients? They do not! Do the Big Pharma companies have any liability for lying to the public about the proprietary ingredients in their...

In the last few years alone, South Korea shocked the world with “Parasite,” the first foreign language film to win best picture at the Academy Awards. It has one of the biggest, if not the biggest, band in the world with BTS. Netflix has introduced 80 Korean movies and TV shows in the last few years, far more than it had imagined when it started its service in South Korea in 2016, according to the company. Three of the 10 most popular TV shows on Netflix as of Monday were South Korean. South Korea has long chafed at its lack...

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh says the Biden administration's new vaccine requirements will help boost the labor force participation rate. On Friday, the Labor Department said the labor force participation rate was unchanged in October, at 61.6%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the participation rate has stayed between 61.4% and 61.7% since June 2020. "We really have to focus on how do we bring confidence back to those folks that are just afraid of coming back," said Walsh in an interview with Yahoo Finance. Walsh said he believes the administration's new rule requiring companies with 100 or more...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” that night but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone, a witness testified Friday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial. Jason Lackowski, a former Marine who said he took an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to Kenosha last year to help protect property during violent protests against racial injustice, said that Joseph Rosenbaum “asked very bluntly to shoot him” and took a few “false steppings ... to entice someone to do something.” Lackowski got up from the witness stand and...

It just dawned upon me this morning that Joe Biden, our current resident of the Oval Office, (60% of the time-maybe) has actually accomplished an amazing feat: HE HAS UNITED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IN MOCKING HIM. That feat is very difficult for me to wrap my head around but more and more people across the fruited plains, from sea to shining sea, are waking up and realizing just how much Biden and his minions hate America and want to destroy it forever. Even the folks at the G-20 photo op did The Time Warp: JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT...

Four Neolithic “chalk plaques” were discovered near Stonehenge between 1968–2017. A new study has shown that the ancient illustrations on the Stonehenge plaques are much more than just abstract patterns. The Stonehenge plaques were buried in a pit about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from England’s most famous ancient monument. English Heritage scientists have dated the plaques to between 2900 BC and 2580 BC. The new study has called these four ancient art works “some of the most spectacular chalk designs ever discovered in Britain.” According to an article on Silent Earth , the plaque pit in which the artworks were...

A Los Angeles Unified School District mandate went into effect Sunday that requires students who want to play sports to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Los Angeles Times reported. And with that, Crenshaw High School's football team — which possesses a storied history as five-time city champions — saw its season abruptly end, the paper said. Why? The mandate states that football teams need at least 18 fully vaccinated players to compete, the Times said, but Crenshaw has only 13 players who are fully vaccinated. And that's "insufficient eligible players," according to a LAUSD statement, KTTV-TV reported. The Cougars...

"Where parental consent is required, health workers should allow older children and adolescents to provide assent to the vaccination," the document states. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Globalist white papers published by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014 detail a sneaky approach to bypassing parental consent when it comes to vaccinating children ages 6-17. The document, titled, “Considerations regarding consent in vaccinating children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years old,” explains how to deal with that population group which “may present for vaccination without an accompanying parent or legal guardian.” The paper gives a normal description of “consent” before describing “assent”...

President Joe Biden demanded that every member of Congress vote for his agenda after celebrating the better-than-expected job gains in October reported Friday. “I’m asking every House member, member of the House of Representatives, to vote yes on both these bills, right now,” Biden said. “Send the infrastructure bill to my desk. Send the Build Back Better bill to the Senate.”

(Reuters) – Britain becomes the first country in the world to approve a COVID antiviral pill developed by Merck Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recommended the drug, molnupiravir, for use in people with mild to moderate COVID-19 and at least one risk factor for developing severe illness, such as obesity, older age diabetes, and heart disease. It will be administered as soon as possible following a positive COVID-19 test and within five days of the onset of symptoms, the regulator said, citing clinical data. The green light is the first for an oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19...

I’m hoping that we still have a majority of Americans who remember enough about Nazi Germany to be able to explain who the gestapo were and why they were evil to their children. Even though I know public education has declined to the point to either not mention this period of time or somehow define conservatives as Nazis, I remain hopeful enough of you can combat the lies and expose the truth to the next generation. The NEW delusion leftists are repeating from their “information overlords” is that the Supreme Court has in fact given OSHA the power to demand...

There are many reasons I am excited about last night's barn-burner election results in the Virginia governor's race. First and foremost it is a clean, direct repudiation of the insanity that has overtaken school boards in Virginia, especially the divisive, toxic and dangerous agenda that is Critical Race Theory. And it is a devastating kill shot for a Democratic party that has gone so far off track from where normal, rational mainstream Americans currently are. There is truly no way for anyone to spin this any other way (although just a quick glance at Twitter will show that some of...

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm touted funding in the bipartisan infrastructure bill for direct-air capture demonstration projects, calling the provision “really exciting” during an address at the COP26 international climate summit in Glasgow Friday, While Granholm touted the Energy Department’s current work on carbon reduction, she said that “what’s really exciting is what’s being voted on today, I hope, in Congress, cross our fingers.” Democratic leaders are hoping to hold House votes Friday on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a separate social spending and climate measure. The former would go straight to the White House for President Biden's signature if it...

EUGENE, Ore. -- The owner of a Eugene cookie store was assaulted while trying to enforce the mask mandate on Wednesday, police say. It happened at about 11 a.m. at Crumb Together on Oak Street when a man and woman walked into the business and refused to wear a mask, police said. Police said Ricki Collin, 34, and Amy Hall, 45, both of the Portland area, were arrested and taken to the Lane County Jail after the altercation. Ricki Scott Collin Amy Verlee Hall Meanwhile, the owner of the business was taken to a hospital for treatment of her cuts...

One person was killed and 11 others were wounded in shootings in Chicago Thursday. A man was killed and another man was critically wounded in a shooting in East Garfield Park on the West Side. About 5:15 p.m., the men, 26 and 34, were near the street in the 3900 block of West Van Buren Street when they were struck by gunfire, Chicago police said. A 16-year-old girl and a man were wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon near Chicago Vocational Career Academy on the South Side. They were near the sidewalk in the 2000 block of East 87th Street...

The reconciliation bill working its way through the U.S. House calls on the American taxpayer to subsidize Democrats' media allies. The bill provides a special tax cut for the media under the guise of helping "local journalists" but eligible media companies will receive the funds for up to 1,500 reporters per company. This provision would provide a refundable payroll tax credit equal to 50 percent of wages up to $12,500 per quarter per employee for the first four calendar quarters and a 30 percent credit for each calendar quarter thereafter. On page 1,957 of the 2000+page bill, section 138516 would...

Joe Biden Sends $5 Million to UN to Fund Portable Devices to Kill Babies in Abortions Around the WorldJoe Biden’s administration just gave $5 million taxpayer dollars to a United Nations program that provides deadly abortion drugs and devices to women across the world.The U.S. Department of State announced the new funding Monday for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Supplies program.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman praised the program for “empowering women and girls, including by promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, advances human rights, gender equality and global health.”UNFPA Supplies provides maternal health care supplies and contraception...

The Biden Secretary of Energy Snaps Her Head Back and Laughs *Maniacally* in the face of every American Suffering From Sky High Crippling Gas Prices. This Will Be The #1 Attack Ad Clip in 2022 - take it to the bank.

Besides the strong headline print today of 531K, which came above 10 of the 75 forecasts in the Bloomberg economist survey, the other notable highlight was the dramatic prior month revisions which saw the Sept print revised from 194K to 312K, while August rose from 366K to 483K resulting in a combined 235,000 upward revision for the two prior months. This shouldn't come as a surprise: last month, when looking at the dismal 194K (pre-revision) September print, we said that "next month the BLS will revise its seasonal adjustment model to account for the easing in the pandemic, and reverse...