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Christine Anderson of the E.U. Parliament answers cries for help from Australia. She says: "At no point in history, have the people forcing others into compliance, been the good guys. The welfare of humanity has always been the alibi of tyrants."

I was recently invited to visit the second National Conservative Conference in Orlando, the first in-person conference of this movement, since its birth in 2019. I had the opportunity to hear a talk by conservative activist Christopher Rufo about the policies of counterrevolution against critical theory in the country’s institutions, including its colleges and universities. Rufo was the man who single-handedly waged a war on critical race theory (CRT), and was instrumental in shaping policies under the previous administration. Recently, his strategy was vindicated in Virginia elections where education was the second-highest important issue polled, and handed the Republicans their...

We recently decided not to add neighborhood crime data to Redfin.com. We were considering this because we’re very much focused on answering all the questions people have when they’re considering a home purchase, and we know that one of these questions is whether they’ll feel safe in a given home or neighborhood. But the data available don’t allow us to speak accurately to that question, and given the long history of redlining and racist housing covenants in the United States there’s too great a risk of this inaccuracy reinforcing racial bias. We believe that Redfin–and all real estate sites–should not...

Former President Trump said this weekend that former Vice President Mike Pence has been "mortally wounded" by allowing the congressional certification of the 2020 election results. "I was disappointed in one thing, but it was a big thing," Trump said during a ticketed event in Sunrise, Fla., on Saturday, according to CNN. "Mike should have sent those crooked votes back to the legislatures and you would have had a different result in the election, in my opinion," the former President told the audience at the stop on Bill O'Reilly's "History Tour."

MUST SEE VIDEO! Pakistani Mosque gives girls lessons in how to behead a person accused of blasphemy Students of Red Mosque Islamabad practising how to behead a person accused of blasphemy. Pakistan’s “kamyab jawan” (successful youth) project proceeding rather well... “‘Beheading’ training being imparted to girl students in mosque, Video goes viral,” by Arpit Birtharia, NewsTrack, December 11 2021: …Meanwhile, a video has now surfaced from Pakistan that exposes Pakistan’s violent, hardcore Islamic, and chaotic face in blasphemy. The video is said to be from the Red Mosque in Islamabad. The viral video shows girl students being taught in the...

I remember when 1984 rolled around, with the Cold War still going in high gear (in fact higher than ever after Reagan correctly called the Soviet Union “an evil empire”), and it was natural that the literary world would mark the occasion with a callback to George Orwell’s 1984. The anti-anti-Communist left at the time labored mightily to downplay or distract from Orwell’s anti-Communist message, offering convoluted takes about how 1984 was “really about us” in the democratic West. These were snortworthy takes, to be sure, but right now it is appearing that Orwell’s description of the tyrannical drive to...

CDC - Why Critical Thinking Is Dangerous! - YouTuberansomnote: at the start of the video, JP mentions a NYT article "Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole." I've read that NYT article - it's infuriating. Orwell would have liked it though. The NYT seems to be working to keep people from breaking free of the MSM indoctrination with such advice as 'don't think too hard'. Apparently, the NYT and other MSM and online sources will do the thinking for us. All we have to do is what they told us in the past. As I said, infuriating:Opinion | Don’t Go Down...

High school students studying in some of California's largest school districts will no longer be given a D or F grade for poor work, and will instead be allowed to take the tests or complete the work again. The new system has been introduced due to the pandemic, with supporters arguing that it reduces the stress levels for already-traumatized and unsettled students.

Amtrak has suspended their vaccine mandate just days after the railroad service began cutting services due to vaccine related staffing shortages, according to Reuters' David Shepardson.In a Tuesday statement, Amtrak - like many other businesses lately - pointed to a recent federal court decision halting the enforcement of President Biden's Executive Order for federal contractors. The decision "caused the company to reevaluate our policy and to address the uncertainty" surrounding federal requirements.

During President Joe Biden’s online Summit for Democracy, the video feed of a Taiwanese delegate was cut off after showing a slide of a map depicting Taiwan as independent from China. However, the map was about democracy, not sovereignty. Two sources close to the issues told Reuters that Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang was cut off for about a minute after showing the map. Soon, Tang was back on, but this time, the feed was audio only, captioned: “Minister Audrey Tang Taiwan.” There was also a disclaimer that read: “Any opinions expressed by individuals on this panel are those of...

Has YouTube stopped counting 'dislikes' on videos from the White House? And on videos from MSM featuring Joe Biden, or Jen Psaki, or anyone from the administration? The 'like' counts aren't very high, but there are no 'dislikes,' and clicking on 'dislike' on a WP video gave a message like 'your feedback is appreciated' or something like that.

Africa's all-electric Phractyl Macrobat birdoplane will squat back, tilt its wings skyward, and perform "near vertical" takeoff and landingPhractyl VIEW 5 IMAGES African startup Phractyl has shown us a concept unlike anything we've seen before – or are likely to see again, if we're honest. With tracked feet, bird legs, a tilting cabin and tilting wings, this avant-garde absurdity promises "near-VTOL" flight. Africa, says new electric aircraft startup Phractyl, is in a pretty unique situation as the eVTOL wave begins to break, since it's got so little in the way of ground transport infrastructure. So aircraft that can take off...

An alarming admission was found near the bottom of a recent New York Times article about pharmaceutical giant Merck’s new Covid drug molnupiravir. Approved by the FDA two weeks ago, the drug was studied on isolated hamster cells for 32 days before being given the green light. While the FDA narrowly voted to recommend emergency use authorization for the drug, France’s National Authority of Health on Friday cited the pill’s own lack of efficacy as it ruled it will not be used in the European nation. According to the NYT report, “A team of researchers at the University of North...

Biden press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged on Tuesday that the holiday season at the White House isn't quite the same as previous years in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It doesn’t look exactly like it has always looked here, but we are going to continue to celebrate, to embrace the holiday season, and look for ways we can do that,” Psaki said when asked if traditional holiday parties are taking place this year. She pointed to a “variety of ways” the White House is celebrating, including the Christmas tree lighting and when first lady Jill Biden received the tree and...

An immunotherapy harnessing the immune system's "natural killer" cells has proven effective in treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in some adults whose cancers return. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown, in a small clinical trial, that the same natural killer cells also can help some children and young adults with recurrent AML and few other treatment options. Results from the phase 1 trial, which included eight patients ages 1 to 30 years, are published online in the journal Blood. "All of the patients enrolled in this study had very aggressive AML," said first...

President Biden on Tuesday called for passage of his stalled multitrillion-dollar social spending bill in a video message marking the ninth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — highlighting a relatively obscure provision in the bill that he said would prevent additional mass shootings. Biden has taken many opportunities to promote the sprawling package, which would cost $2.2 trillion as passed last month by the House, or $4.5 trillion if its programs are extended over 10 years. “There are three common-sense bills to reduce gun violence that the Senate should pass now, right away, long overdue,” Biden said...

HR 550, a bill passed by the House, would expand state and local health department vaccine-tracking systems to monitor the vaccination status of American citizens and provide the information to the federal government.Since there isn’t a safe vaccine (as I’ve noted before), this is nonsensical. All of the research I’m aware of shows that people who take the approved vaccines are uniformly less healthy than those who refuse the vaccines.It takes less than 10 seconds to take actionPlease fill out the form on this page and hit “Send.”I use RoboForm so the whole process literally took me <10 seconds from...

Will likely be facing vaccine mandate. Does anyone have thoughts on taking Ivermectin to offset side-affects of the vaccine?

Here’s the LA Times story:This is nuts. These people in public health are sheep.I fired off this email to Mark Ghaly. I’ll let you know if he responds. I doubt I’ll hear anything back.These people don’t believe in science. Science says the randomized-controlled trials tell us the truth compared to uncontrolled trials. So what does California rely on: ten uncontrolled trials of course! Do they even mention the RCTs in the article? Heck no!Folks, any effect size of masks, if there is one, is TINY. It is too small to measure in the big RCTs. There is no possible way...

This video was posted by Ahad Abu Wadiya Al-Qa'actach, one of the most colorful figures in Gaza. He is well-known and was active in the "return marches", the riots on the border with Israel. He was present at every riot on the fence and considered to be one of the Gazan "influencers" on the net. Abu Wadiya, who was previously detained by Hamas, addresses its senior officials and tells them: "Because of you, everyone wants to emigrate from Gaza." The video was filmed at the Rafah crossing with three of his friends who chose to immigrate to Turkey. NEWSRAEL brings...