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The budget reconciliation package pushed by Democrats creates a new expanded child tax credit (CTC) that would pay illegal immigrants some $10.5 billion next year. All immigrants with children are eligible, regardless of how they got here and whether their children are U.S.-born. This includes the roughly 600,000 unaccompanied minors and persons in family units stopped at the border in FY2021 and released into the country pending a hearing. Cash welfare to illegal immigrants is not just costly; it also encourages more illegal immigration. Although it is referred to as a “refundable credit,” the new CTC, like the old additional...

The three companies responsible for developing and distributing the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines around the world are bringing in millions of dollars of profits every hour, a new analysis finds. The People's Vaccine Alliance (PVA), an international non-profit working to close the global vaccine disparity, analyzed the earnings reports of Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna and found that the companies will make a combined $34 billion in profit this year. When broken down, that is $93.5 million a day, $65,000 a minute and more than $1,000 every second of profit.

Update (1330ET): Internet tracking website NetBlocks confirms the widespread internet outage is "due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering."ℹ️ Note: Several online services including Spotify, Snapchat and Etsy have been experiencing international outages due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering pic.twitter.com/KGfLKfgcUN — NetBlocks (@netblocks) November 16, 2021Here's Google Cloud Status Dashboard laying out the errors. The outage has left 29k website offline worldwide. * * * Downdector reports dozens of major websites began experiencing disruptions or outages around 1240 ET....

You got your ballot, followed the instructions, put it in your mailbox to send in plenty of time. WHAT could go wrong??? HELLO! POSTAL carriers are DEMOCRATS...83% !!! The letter carrier sees your ballot envelope and the TRUMP sign in your yard.. Seriously??? Do you think that ballot is EVER going to be counted? WAKE UP. THIS is how they vote.... What could be dumber than handing your ballot over to the enemy!?? (click to see the charts, etc)

PolitiFact and Facebook have been slammed for an August 2020 'fact check' that claimed it was false to say it was 'perfectly legal' for Kyle Rittenhouse to carry his AR-15 rifle at the Kenosha riot, after a judge tossed out his firearms possession charge on Monday. The judge in the Rittenhouse case yesterday threw out the gun possession charge, ruling that the law is written in such a confusing way that it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches. 'I‘m still trying to figure out what it says, what...

The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that it is purchasing 10 million courses of Pfizer’s covid pill, a multibillion-dollar investment in medication that officials hope will help change the trajectory of the pandemic by staving off many hospitalizations and deaths, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. U.S. officials see this antiviral pill, and another by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, as potential game-changers to help restore a broader sense of normalcy and are eager to add them to a small arsenal of treatments for Americans who contract the coronavirus. With breakthrough cases rising and 30...

Translated from French by Google TranslateBy Dr G Delépine, cancer surgeon and statisticianI would like to remind that all the figures and curves published in this article are authentic. The data is the official data published by the WHO that anyone can verify by typing the WHO Covid Dashboard followed by the name of the country. The curves (which I have commented in red) only translate the WHO data graphically; most of them have been published by Ourworldindata and can also be found by typing Ourworldindata covid followed by the name of the country in English.As for the collective immunity...

37 minute video on youtube A top elected official in New York has just announced a new scholarship program for 50 young adults. However, the opportunity is only open to those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.According to a press release issued by Kathy Hochul’s office last week:Today, during a COVID-19 briefing at the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center in Westchester County, Governor Kathy Hochul announced new efforts to support vaccinating 5- to 11-year-olds, including the launch of a new vaccine incentive program – ‘Vaccinate, Educate, Graduate’ – for young New Yorkers. Parents and guardians of children ages 5 through...

James Melville's 19 second video clip on TwitterThrough restrictions that were enforced yesterday, the unvaccinated in Austria will only be allowed to leave their homes for reasons considered essential to life, such as going to work, food shopping, or visiting the doctor – or getting vaccinated.These measures, which are believed to be unprecedented in Europe, are expected to affect millions of people not fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the regions of Upper Austria and Salzburg.The measures affect those who are unvaccinated and over the age of 12 and there is no longer an option to present a negative test.There will...

USPS Test: We mailed 4 packages with GPS trackers to see how quickly they got there

For the most part, I don’t buy the premise that movies can be so bad, they’re actually good. If a movie’s good, isn’t it just...good? There’s no question, however, that movies can succeed by failing. Ed Wood is an extreme-but-perfect example of a filmmaker who never achieved precisely what he set out to do with any of his movies, but who nonetheless made cinematic magic out of enthusiasm, shamelessness, and no small measure of self-delusion. That kind of thing is always better than something like Sharknado—a movie that’s fun, but that works so hard to achieve silliness that you can...

The vaccine passports create a platform for a digital transaction system that documents and tracks all transactions. Once combined with a central bank-controlled digital currency, they will have the ability to block transactions. To prevent the final implementation of this planned control system, we must be ready and willing to sacrifice in the short term. We must be willing to say, “No, I will not comply, no matter what the consequence,” or we’ll lose even our most basic freedoms.On 29 October Dr. Joseph Mercola discussed the financial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic with Catherine Austin Fitts. You can watch their...

Is the US slipping into darkness? The smoothed US recession probability just rose to 44.40%. Meanwhile, the CPI YoY rose to 6.24% YoY. The Fed has been lowriding rates since late 2008. Why can’t The Fed be friends with the middle class instead of just the top 1%? Playing “Cisco Kid” to chill. Share this:

Gov. Tom Wolf apologized on Tuesday for his “honest mistake” in asking his wife to deliver his mail-in ballot for the Nov. 2 election. In a morning interview on the same KDKA radio show where he admitted to a violation of an election law two weeks ago, Wolf apologized. “I’m sorry. I did it. It was an honest mistake,” Wolf said. “But yeah, it was. I guess they say ignorance of the law is no defense, but I’m sorry, I apologize” Wolf admitted he asked his wife Frances to drop off his ballot. “It was my idea. She said I’m...

Data available from the UK Health Security Agency suggests things are about to take a turn for the worse for those who have succumbed to the lies and propaganda about how taking an experimental injection is the worlds only route back to normality, by foolishly rolling up their sleeves and being vaccinated against an alleged disease that had just a 0.2% fatality rate prior to the world-wide roll-out of experimental gene therapies.To put it bluntly, the “fully vaccinated” are on the precipice of disaster.The sinisterly named UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recently replaced Public Health England (PHE), with the UK’s...

Does anyone know how to change the credit card I use for monthly donations to Free Republic? Thanks in advance...

Leading journalists acknowledge that it's awkward to receive financial assistance from a government they cover independently. President Biden's $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support in response to the decline of local news. The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credit for companies that employ eligible local journalists. The measure would allow newspapers, digital news outlets and radio and television stations to claim a tax credit of $25,000 the first year and $15,000 the next four years for...

A recent speech given in the parliament of the European Union was widely circulated online, with a German MEP condemning oppressive COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates that have spread across the western world. That powerful message was delivered by Alternative for Germany Party MEP Christine Anderson. Speaking about how little westerners appreciate their hard-won freedoms, Christine said: People, especially in the western democracies, they no longer consider freedom, civil liberties and the rule of law as something special, as something that you need to fight for and defend every day. They see it as something God-given that just fell out...

Tucked into President Joe Biden’s proposed nearly $2 trillion social spending bill is a provision to boost local media through tax incentives meant to help an industry battered by the COVID-19 virus. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA), first introduced in July, would provide a local media advertising credit of up to $5,000 in the first year and up to $2,500 in the next four years, covering 80% of advertising costs in the first year and 50% in the following four years. Other elements of the bill would provide a federal tax credit to local media outlets that hire local...

[snip] Democrats’ larger $1.75 trillion package—which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will actually cost $2.4 trillion—remains in limbo, as neither Manchin nor Sinema have committed to voting for the bill in the upper chamber.(what a Trillion $s looks like)With a trillion here and a trillion there being banded about like a doz. eggs...it truly boggles the mind what a Trillion dollars looks like. How can you spend that much money in a life time...who is getting rich beyond belief with this treasure?