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Absentee ballots have given Democrats control of the Monroe County Legislature for the first time in 30 years. More Democrats than Republicans voted absentee, and that difference reversed the Election Night results in two legislative races.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will schedule a vote soon to repeal the 2002 Iraq War resolution, a proposal that has strong bipartisan support but has languished in Congress for years. Schumer announced Tuesday after a meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus that he will move to fulfill his pledge to wipe the authorization for use of military force (AUMF) from the books, so that President Biden or any future president would need new authorization from Congress to launch military operations in Iraq. “It’s ... my plan to hold a vote on repealing the 2002 Iraq AUMF....

@MaxBlumenthal Austrian police hunt for The Unvaccinated, who have been confined to their homes and face fines of $1660 for being in public (except when working). And the human rights industry, the EU, US and much of the int’l left are silent, if not quietly approving Clip...

A Wisconsin Senate committee has issued a subpoena for absentee ballots and voting machine records from Madison as part of an ongoing investigation into the 2020 election.“The subpoena — issued by the Senate Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics and signed by Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg), Senate President Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), and committee chair Senator Kathleen Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls) — calls for the city to turn over all physical absentee ballot certificates for the November 2020 General Election and the results of tests on electronic voting machines used for the election,” local news outlet Channel3000 reported.“According...

The Democratic Party is falling apart in epic fashion.After 10 months of a failing Biden presidency, Democrats are now feeling the likelihood that they will lose control of the House and maybe even the Senate in the 2022 midterms.One of the Democrats retiring from the House is Rep. John Yarmuth, who said the fragile state of American democracy has him “freaked out” and called Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert “a nutjob,” according to the Washington Post.North Carolina Democrat Rep. David Price, who has also decided to retire from Congress next year, fears Democrats have done a poor job governing with...

Has Kamala Harris grown so irrelevant the White House doesn't even notice her anymore? Sure seems like it, based on this White House ceremonial blooper: The occasion was the vaunted signing ceremony for Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, hailed by the press as a "much needed win," "fulfilling campaign promise," and a "significant political victory." amid grand comparisons to FDR's New Deal. Joe "finally gets the 'big effing deal'" crowed Politico. Kamala herself campaigned for the porky measure, in one of the very few things she's done beyond posing for Vogue photo shoots, shopping in Paris, and put up...

Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder instructed the jury this week that they must make its decision on its own, without interference from anywhere — including Joe Biden and others. The jury began deliberations on Tuesday morning, but not before Schroeder gave them a solid piece of advice. “You will pay no heed to the opinions of anyone — even the president of the United States or the president before him,” Schroeder said.Rittenhouse’s defense team filed a motion with Schroeder to have his case dismissed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. “The state has repeatedly violated instructions from the Court, acted in...

KENOSHA, Wis. — As Kyle Rittenhouse’s jury officially began its deliberations Tuesday, a piece of unfinished business still hung over the case. The defense filed a motion ahead of Monday’s closing arguments asking for a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct. The request will be moot if the jury — which began deliberations at 9:15 a.m. local time — acquits Rittenhouse of the five felony charges against him, so it appears the judge will not address the issue until after deliberations. Eighteen jurors listened to the case, though only 12 have been tapped to reach a verdict. Before deliberations began, Rittenhouse...

The Chinese military has deployed long-range bomber planes to its border with India in a move to deter conflict between the two nations. During the celebration of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force's 72nd anniversary last Thursday, state-run news channel China Central Television (CCTV) reportedly aired footage of H-6K bombers flying near the Himalayas. While typically based closer to Beijing, the jets were moved to Xinjiang province sometime last year, close to a region contested by China and India, the South China Morning Post reported. These particular bombers are usually outfitted with CJ-20 long-range missiles for land and sea...

The conservative House Freedom Caucus has elected Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) as chairman of the group, replacing Rep. Andy Biffs (R-Ariz.), who was term-limited. “For the past six years, I have stood shoulder to shoulder with the men and women of the Freedom Caucus as we have tirelessly fought to hold the line to promote liberty, safety and prosperity for Americans,” Perry said in a statement on Monday evening. “I am grateful to continue to carry the torch for these champions of freedom.” Biggs will serve as chairman of the group until Jan. 1, which is when his current term...

Gibraltar, recently declared the “most vaccinated country in the world” with a vaccination rate of nearly 100%, is canceling all the festivities planned for the end of the year due to the ‘exponential increase’ in Covid cases.Gibraltar; the most vaccinated region on Earth (100% fully vaccinated, 40% boosted) has now cancelled Christmas due to "exponential" rise in cases.Are we allowed to admit that the vaccines failed to end the pandemic, yet?https://t.co/VKZXN4TWpF— PLC (@Humble_Analysis) November 16, 2021Gibraltar 119% vax rate meaning everybody 2 doses some 3rd. Still have rising cases and counts, still have hospitalization and ICU. Going into lockdowns. Were...

With the Beijing Winter Olympics just three months away, the Biden administration will soon have to make clear whether it plans to send an official delegation to China. But sooner rather than later, according to several sources familiar with the plans, the White House is expected to announce that neither President Biden nor any other U.S. government officials will attend the Beijing Games. This diplomatic boycott is intended, the sources say, as a way to respond to the Chinese government’s human rights abuses without impacting U.S. athletes. Although the administration technically has not finalized this decision, a formal recommendation has...

In a previous article we wrote about the UK government’s procrastination in promoting non-pharmaceutical therapies, such as gut biome therapies, and how the US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) had labelled vitamins and supplements as “unapproved drugs.” In this article we explore what could be some of the reasons behind their bizarre attitude towards promoting age old approaches to health and wellbeing.This article is the second of a three-part series on gut microbiomes or gut biomes in which we attempt to highlight some answers to three questions:Part 1: What is ADE and a cytokine storm, and what’s the gut got...

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...