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There are very few cases of the COVID omicron variant in the U.S. or the world, so how can it be that Pfizer or any drug company can run a test that shows that its vaccines or boosters work on it? That's the claim out there, but nobody's asking about it. There appear to be forty mild cases so far in the U.S., yet Pfizer seems to think it has a vaccine for it. But how the heck would anyone know if a such a vaccine or booster worked, or is even necessary? Experts" have said the omicron variant is...

Despite inflation broadening beyond problem sectors like used cars, the early bond market reaction to today’s CPI print suggests that markets are expecting the Federal Reserve to react marginally slower to inflationary pressures. This is good news for a Fed that has come under increasing pressure to hike rates against elevated inflation. The strength and speed of the recovery, especially relative to past recessions, has made it difficult for some to come to grips with the features that would distinguish “transitory” from “persistent” inflation, with calls for hikes reminiscent of 2015 Fed policy. In light of that ambiguity, Fed Chair...

Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett said that an Omicron variant case has been detected in town. Because of this and in consultation with the Quinnipiack Valley Health District, the town of Hamden is reinstating its mask mandate effective Dec. 11. The mayor says all people will be required to wear masks in indoor public spaces, regardless of vaccination status. “We have a lot of public places where people need to go like grocery stores and I want everybody to feel safe going into grocery stores, restaurants, any indoor public places," Garrett told NBC Connecticut. "Vaccination is the primary preventative method to...

A new whistleblower video shows Pennsylvania election workers discussing ways to hide derogatory information about the management of the November 2020 electionA new whistleblower video obtained by The Federalist shows Delaware County, Pennsylvania election workers discussing ways to hide from the public “derogatory” information about the management and administration of the November 2020 election. The video is further evidence of fraud undertaken to conceal the widespread violations of Pennsylvania election law that occurred during last year’s presidential election, according to a source familiar with the recording. The video, surreptitiously recorded by whistleblower Regina Miller, is one of many Miller took...

[snip]NIH’s denial that Fauci’s agency funded the beagle atrocity is a little too convenient. NIH made the same argument after PETA exposed an NIH-funded experiment in China in which experimenters blasted monkeys with 100-decibel sound for 12 hours, withheld water and food, sprayed them with cold water, exposed them to strobe lighting for 12 hours, and electro-shocked their feet. The published study—like the one on the beagle experiments—clearly listed NIH as the funder. Then, as now, NIH called it a mistake. Is rewriting history the new defense against complicity in torture? PETA calls on NIH to release the original, unredacted...

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris led official Washington in a second day of tributes for the late Sen. Bob Dole on Friday at Washington National Cathedral, a day after Biden honored his longtime colleague in the Capitol Rotunda. Former President Bill Clinton, who defeated Dole in the 1996 election, and former Vice President Mike Pence were among the prominent attendees, sitting one row apart. Former President Donald Trump, for whom Dole repeatedly expressed support, was not present. Also in attendance was actor Tom Hanks.

@RepThomasMassie Show me a single state where Constitutionalists comprise a majority of the state legislature. At this point in history, an Article V Convention of the States would be a disaster.

Go look at the VAERS COVID Vaccine Mortality Report to know why Pfizer wants FDA protection for its vaccine research along with 75 years of document secrecy. While there are all sorts of ways to interpret the VAERS data, and it's entirely possible that the vaccine is safer than COVID, not only have many people probably died from the vaccine, but there's also still no way of knowing what the vaccine's long-term effects are. Some experts have calculated that only about 1% of adverse reactions are ever reported for various reasons in the U.S. This could be due to minor...

Joke Biden staining beautiful Bob Dole's tribute - just had to inject his "decline of Democracy" Jab. A beautiful tribute to heroes Bob Dole, but Biden used to it to stain it for dirty politics.

VIDEO! NEWSRAEL: Israel's enemies still think that they can say anything they want in Arabic of Persian and get away with it. MEMRI has changed that. Notice that he says: That Iran's aim is to "erase" Israel from the map "even if we get chopped up into pieces". Khomeini said on several occasions that he is "willing" that Iran should burn if Islam will conquer the world. Iranian Armed Forces Spokesman General Abolfazl Shekarchi: The Ayatollah Regime is not only genocidal, but is willing, like the suicide bomber to sacrifice all - this is not a regime that can be...

Keir Starmer has said Boris Johnson is “not fit for office”. Speaking on a visit to Northumberland, he said: "[Johnson is] not fit for office and because he’s not fit for office, he won’t resign and the question really is for Tory members of the cabinet, Tory MPs, to ask themselves are they prepared to put up with this? He’s not fit for office. He’s not going to be fit for office. Are they prepared to go through the degrading of themselves and their party, to go out to the media, have to defend the indefensible for months to come?...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican David Perdue is furthering his embrace of debunked claims that Georgia's 2020 presidential election was wrongly decided by joining a lawsuit claiming that fraudulent or counterfeit ballots were counted in the state's most populous county in the 2020 general election. The suit, filed Friday, amplifies claims that the former senator has made this week since entering the 2022 Republican primary for governor on Monday, saying he wouldn't have certified Georgia's 2020 results if he had been governor then. Former President Donald Trump is backing Perdue in his challenge to incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, saying...

@JamesComer 😂 What a crock of 💩 You were given an opportunity to explain the Steel Dossier, your whistleblower, and your “more than circumstantial evidence,” and you failed to deliver once again! I can’t wait to compare our @GOPoversight of Hunter Biden to your pitiful oversight of Trump

The Democrats’ Hispanic Voter Problem It's Not As Bad As You Think—It’s Worse The Democrats are steadily losing ground with Hispanic voters. The seriousness of this problem tends to be underestimated in Democratic circles for a couple of reasons: (1) they don’t realize how big the shift is; and (2) they don’t realize how thoroughly it undermines the most influential Democratic theory of the case for building their coalition. On the latter, consider that most Democrats like to believe that, since a relatively conservative white population is in sharp decline while a presumably liberal nonwhite population keeps growing, the course...

A British appellate court opened the door Friday for Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States by overturning a lower court’s decision that the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health was too fragile to withstand the American criminal justice system. (Snip) U.S. authorities have told British judges that if Assange is extradited for prosecution, he would be eligible to serve any U.S. prison sentence he receives in his native Australia. The authorities also said he wouldn’t be held at the supermax penitentiary in Colorado, the highest-security prison in the United States.

London is set to ban all e-scooters from its public transport network due to safety concerns. According to The Guardian, the ban comes following multiple incidents in which e-scooters combusted. It will be applied to all e-scooters, including privately owned vehicles and e-unicycles, even when they are folded or carried. Transport for London, the government body overseeing most of the city's public transport network, said that those who have privately owned scooters will also be banned from traveling with the vehicles on any of its buses, trams or the tube, per The Guardian. It also stated that e-scooters will not...

Leftist billionaire George Soros is at it again. One of his organizations funneled millions into a radical leftist group seeking to defund the police. Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society gave at least $4 million to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability (the Hub) between 2019 and 2020 through the “dark money” group New Venture Fund (NVF). NVF is “the largest 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the network of four nonprofits created and managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting company that caters to major foundations and organizations on the political [l]eft,” according to Influence Watch. The Hub...

An industry is born By the late 2000s, several big pharmaceutical companies were entering the mRNA field. In 2008, for example, both Novartis and Shire established mRNA research units — the former (led by Geall) focused on vaccines, the latter (led by Heartlein) on therapeutics. BioNTech launched that year, and other start-ups soon entered the fray, bolstered by a 2012 decision by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to start funding industry researchers to study RNA vaccines and drugs. Moderna was one of the companies that built on this work and, by 2015, it had raised more than $1...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The owner of a bar in Albert Lea was found guilty Thursday of six criminal misdemeanor charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail for defying Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders to close her business last winter. The jury found Lisa Hanson, 57, guilty after deliberating for an hour, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Prosecutors had asked that Hanson be fined $500 and jailed for several days, but Judge Joseph Bueltel gave her a 90-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine, saying he wanted to send a message to people who violate executive orders. “You wanted to make...

The world’s loneliest house, stuck on the side of a remote mountain range, had lain empty for 100 years — but its mystery remains. Savvy Italian soldiers are said to have built the shelter as a place to rest while battling the Austro-Hungarians across the rugged terrain.