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here has been a dramatic underestimation of the evolutionary capacity of SARS-CoV-2 when it is put under widespread immune pressure. In our estimation, there can be no doubt that the Omicron variant is only one such example of this and that other variants harboring a similar panoply of S (spike)-directed mutations will soon emerge in other countries. There is, indeed, no reason to accept or believe that identical conditions of suboptimal population-level immune pressure (due to the vaccine) on SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness combined with widespread infectious pressure (due to vaccination during a viral epidemic/pandemic) would result in a different outcome. Countries...

A list deaths published in the Air Line Pilot Association magazine shows that most of the deaths in 2021 happened after the vaccines rolled out. Are dead pilots trying to tell us something? Yesterday, I received the following text message referring to an article in the Air Line Pilot Association (ALPA) magazine: OK, so at first glance, that looks pretty incriminating, doesn’t it? Especially the huge number of deaths in July (39) as compared to a pre-jab month like January (1) or March (1). However, they only list the “new” deaths they heard about in each issue. So let’s not...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditional Catholics Sound Alarm As Rome Suppresses Most Old Rite SacramentsThey contend the Oct. 7 pastoral instruction forbidding six of the seven sacraments celebrated according to the extraordinary form is a violation of canon law and will cause spiritual harm.ROME — Canon lawyers and experts in the traditional liturgy have warned that a pastoral instruction issued by the Diocese of Rome that bans traditional communities and priests from celebrating all the sacraments with the exception of the Eucharist according to the traditional form of the Roman Rite is unlawful and will harm souls if allowed to continue.The guidelines,...

A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars in an emotional hearing on Tuesday. Cleveland Meredith Jr. pleaded guilty in September to sending threatening communications. Though he missed the January 6 rally because of car troubles, Meredith was one of the first people charged in relation to the Capitol riot after his mother reported concerning texts to the FBI on January 7. Agents found Meredith in a hotel one mile from the Capitol with thousands of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and an...

A reader sent a link to a TikTok video with information that Glen Beck believes everyone should know. In 2015 (during the Obama/Biden administration and before Trump became President), there was a signed confidential agreement between Moderna and the U.S. government’s NIH (National Institutes of Health). The video clearly states that the agreement says, “mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine candidates developed and jointly-owned by the NIAID and Moderna.” Beck asks, “Did you know that the government co-owns the vaccine?… The same government that is now mandating its use owns the vaccine.” (Writer’s comment: The fact that the U.S. government may co-own the...

COVID-19 and the Global Predators is much more than an analysis of the current exploitation of humanity under cover of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It discloses for the first time the actual blueprint and master plan that that was ten years in the making by global predators before the pandemic: a plan to reorganize the world in the name of public health. Billionaires, government agencies, giant funds, and major industries collaborated years ahead of time to lay the groundwork for what would become Operation Warp Speed and the Great Reset in 2020. All this is disclosed, individuals and groups are named,...

What is going on at Newsmax? That's the question a lot of viewers and media watchers are asking amid a shakeup that's come with the news that White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson's contract isn't being renewed for 2022. There's been buzz that Robinson and Newsmax are splitting ways due to Robinson's tweets that got her banned from the social network, but according to an exclusive report from our sister site, RedState, there's a lot more going on at Newsmax. ... As Jen Van Laar writes, "network insiders" told RedState that Robinson's tweets were not "at all" the reason for the...

HELSINKI/WASHINGTON — Finland has chosen U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters to replace aging F/A-18 combat jets and plans to order 64 planes with weapons systems in a $9.4 billion deal, the government said on Friday. Lockheed Martin competed in a tender for the deal with Sweden’s Saab, U.S. rival Boeing, France’s Dassault and Britain’s BAE Systems. The procurement from Lockheed, including weapons as well as service and maintenance until 2030, is estimated to cost 8.378 billion euros ($9.44 billion), the government said. The construction of hangars and other equipment will add a further 777 million euros, and 824...

Data from Denmark shows that just over 70 per cent of omicron cases have been among those younger than 40 The omicron epidemic is being driven by young, vaccinated people, according to mounting data from countries as diverse as the UK, Denmark and South Africa....

In Colorado, there is a backlash from people who can't get into hospitals because they are full of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. Administrators say facilities "are on the verge of collapse."

response to the critical status of 14 salmon species listed under the Endangered Species Act, Gov. Inslee has outlined his administration’s vision for the future of Washington’s salmon recovery efforts. The policies are intended to address a number of key issues responsible for their decline, including: Restoration of habitat is addressed in the proposal. Titled the Lorraine Loomis Act — after a prominent salmon advocate and Swinomish tribal elder — the legislation standardized the minimum height requirement for trees within riparian zones, the green corridors along rivers and streams. Tree canopy insulates rivers from dramatic fluctuations in temperature which cause...

"This virus isn't going away"As COVID-19 has evolved, it's gone from an epidemic, to the current pandemic and, eventually, will become an endemic, health experts say. But what does that mean? Will it change our way of life? When will it happen? Here's what to know about COVID's next — and lasting — phase. What Is an Endemic? Contrary to the leading part of the term, an endemic does not mean COVID will end. Health experts say an endemic virus remains in the population, but at a relatively low level. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines an endemic...

A body has been recovered in Texas by authorities searching for Taylor Pomaski, a 29-year-old woman who went missing in May. The remains were found Dec. 10, and have not yet been positively identified as Pomaski's, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Investigators from the sheriff's office, along with members of Texas EquuSearch, "searched and excavated a site in North Harris County," Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote on Twitter. "The location was identified during the ongoing investigation into Taylor Pomaski's disappearance. Investigators located possible remains, that were later determined, by the HC Institute of Forensic Sciences, to be human."

“The Seventh Circuit was skeptical Thursday of a parks advocacy organization’s arguments opposing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, in a case that has left many supporters of the former president bewildered and angry. “If the Clinton Foundation had approached New York City and asked for 20 acres of Central Park for its Harlem headquarters, it would have been laughed out of court. “But that is essentially what the Obama Foundation asked of Chicago - and got, in a sweetheart deal inked under former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who previously served as Obama’s chief of staff....

If only there were something they all had in common Early in the BYU exhibition game against Colorado Christian on Nov. 4, big man Richard Harward left the contest, and it was later determined that he would be out “at least a little while” because of what head coach Mark Pope called a “cardiovascular issue.” Harward hasn’t played since, and on Tuesday, he announced via Instagram that he will miss the rest of the season because of the heart problem. “The condition affecting my heart has developed further complications. For my health and safety, it has been determined I will...

. In the park, protesters faced the familiar pop, pop, pop of pepper bullets and stinging clouds of tear gas meant to push back hundreds of them as they tried, again and again, to break through the police barricades set up around President Trump’s home. Later, American flags and parked cars and buildings were lit ablaze — including St. John’s Church, a historic landmark opened in 1816 and attended by every president since James Madison. Firefighters quickly extinguished the basement fire, which police said was intentionally set. Downtown, baseball bats bashed through windows at coffee shops, banks and one office...

The rocks smashing through Melina Armstead’s front window sounded like gunshots. She crouched on the floor, glass raining around her, and screamed at her children to hide in the basement. One large rock landed beside her; another knocked over the Christmas tree. Armstead reached for the panic button on her alarm system and realized she was covered in blood from where glass had cut her hand. Armstead immediately told law enforcement who she suspected was behind the attack — her troubled former neighbor, Jamal Thomas — trusting the officers would keep her and her family safe, and get Thomas the...

Dr. Fauci says wear two masks This one could go either way. It’s San Jose which is Leftist, but is full of silent conservatives. (Video at link)

ROBERT REDFIELD: We're clearly going to be in for a tough couple -- I think -- a couple of months with the omicron variant coming, which is much more transmissible, replicates at a higher rate. So I just think trying to get people vaccinated, maintaining their vaccine status, getting boosted and then trying to bring in different mitigation steps, which masking is critical. The other one that I think is underutilized is to take advantage of routine testing in these circumstances where people are actually tested, say, once or twice a week, so you can understand who is silently infected...

WASHINGTON — The real divide in California has never been between San Francisco in the north and Los Angeles to the south, but rather between the moneyed coast and the hardscrabble inland, where pro-Trump placards abound. Few know that divide as well as Rep. Josh Harder, a native of Turlock, Calif., a town in the state’s Central Valley, where the local brewery is called Dust Bowl.Harder left Turlock for Stanford, then went to graduate school at Harvard and later returned to California to work in venture capital before coming home and winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives...