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[H/T ExTexasRedhead]BrighteonText beneath video at link:Schools are masking our children because they are being paid to do so. This parent followed the $$.Is the same happening here in Australia?ransomnote: Oustanding pushback from a well-informed woman. She learned the CDC gives State of Illinois 5 Billion + and gives the school in question 5 million + for compliance ($3000+ per student). Students barred from having laptop w/o compliance etc. She finished with a resounding reading of Nuremberg Code and statements re the violation of Constitutional Rights. She also noted the students are telling her that 'it's okay, now they let us...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will quicken the pace at which it’s pulling back its support for the economy as inflation surges, and it expects to raise interest rates three times next year. In an abrupt policy shift, the Fed announced Wednesday that it will shrink its monthly bond purchases at twice the pace it previously announced, likely ending them altogether in March. The accelerated timetable puts the Fed on a path to start raising rates in the first half of next year. The Fed’s new forecast that it will raise its benchmark short-term rate three times next year...

Online flight trackers recorded the apparent movements of a U.S. Air Force plane that probed the South China Sea ahead of a series of intensive live-fire exercises involving the People's Liberation Army. A Chinese state media pundit said the PLA drills were likely in preparation for a conflict with the United States over the island of Taiwan. According to the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a Peking University think tank tracking U.S. military movements, the RC-135W Rivet Joint craft operated off China's southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan before passing the Paracel Islands—controlled by China but also claimed...

"Pelosi on Biden’s presidency: “He’s just perfect. The timing couldn’t be better”"

A whopping 58 per cent of U.S. voters don't think Joe Biden should run for reelection in 2024, while 56 per cent also say they don't want Donald Trump to run in the next presidential election. If Biden didn't run, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll released Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris has the plurality of votes to replace him with 31 per cent saying they would want her on the ticket if not Biden in 2024. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in second place with 11 per cent.

"Google told its employees that they would lose pay and eventually their jobs if they did not abide by the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Employees had until Dec. 3 to state their vaccination status to the company and upload the required documentation or to apply for a medical or religious exemption, according to the memo, CNBC reported. ..."

The US Navy successfully tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Gulf of Aden​ — indicating the system could be deployed to target drone boats used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to a new report. The USS Portland fired the Laser Weapon System Demonstrator on Tuesday in the waterway that separates the Arabian peninsula from ​Africa, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.​ The Navy’s 5th Fleet, based in the Middle East, said the laser “successfully engaged” the target.​​ In May 2020, the USS Portland used a laser to down a drone. ​​

"Chris Davies and his father Donald have been fighting for their mother and wife Kathy Davies’ right to try the drug Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment at Fauquier Health hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, for the past few weeks. But the hospital — where Chris happens to work as a radiologic technologist — had put his mother through a series of legal hoops seemingly designed to block the treatment from being given to her. On Monday, December 13, Virginia’s 20th Judicial Court found Fauquier Health in contempt of court after refusing to comply with previous orders and ruled that by 9:00...

President Joe Biden joked about inflation and supply chain disruptions on Wednesday, admitting it would “cost Santa some money” to get gifts out to children this year. Biden was asked by a South Carolina local news anchor, News19’s Darci Strickland, in an interview about whether inflation and supply chains would be a problem for Christmas shoppers.

President Joe Biden was greeted with “Let’s go, Brandon!” chants in Kentucky on Wednesday as he arrived to view the damage caused by last week’s deadly tornadoes. As Biden exited his motorcade in Mayfield, Kentucky, two people shouted “Let’s go Brandon!” according to reporters on the scene.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged local governments to optimize their land resources to achieve food self-sufficiency and reduce reliance on grain imports in the coming years, the latest indication the country is bracing for a potential conflict with the United States. At the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Economic Work Conference held on December 8, Xi said China had to ensure grain security for its 1.4 billion people. “The more food we have, the more we have to think about when there is no food,” Xi said. “I’ve repeatedly said that Chinese people must firmly hold their rice...

German researchers have found that COVID-19 therapies developed by Eli Lilly (LLY.N) and Regeneron (REGN.O) lose most of their effectiveness when exposed in laboratory tests to the Omicron variant of coronavirus, likely reducing treatment options if the new variant prevails. Two groups of Germany based scientists separately found that protection from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) and Vir's (VIR.O) antibody cocktail Xevudy held up when exposed to Omicron in lab experiments, but that this was not the case for Lilly's antibodies, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, and the antibodies in Regeneron's Ronapreve drug.

Suspect killed identified as Gabriel Malachi Kalu, 17, of Greensboro A tobacco store employee in North Carolina shot and killed one of three robbery suspects Monday, according to police. Greensboro police said that three males entered the store on the city’s north side at around 7:45 p.m. The suspects took some cash at gunpoint and then fled the area.

On December 13, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed an order issued by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, enjoining the Biden administration’s June 1 termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”. The circuit court’s decision is a doozy, and I trust the Biden administration is chastened by the exercise. History of Remain in Mexico, and the Biden Administration’s Attempts to End It. In a November 4 post, I provided a full run-down of the Remain in Mexico saga...

San Francisco will continue to allow fully vaccinated people to remove their masks in gyms and workplaces while its overall masking mandate remains in effect, the city Department of Public Health announced. “It’s a recognition of all of the thought and care that San Francisco residents have been putting into staying as safe as possible,” said Dr. Susan Philip, San Francisco’s health officer. About 86% of eligible San Francisco residents have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the public health department. San Francisco businesses were relieved that the city can continue permitting fully vaccinated people to go maskless...

Kraft is using its cream cheese shortage as a marketing opportunity. For just a few days this holiday season, a limited number of people will be able to spend $20 on dessert and charge it to Kraft, owner of Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The premise: People who can't bake cheesecakes because they can't find cream cheese can get another baked good on Kraft's dime. Here's how it works: People interested in the offer can visit a special website set up by Kraft. On December 17 and 18, up to 18,000 of them will be able to nab the right to get...

President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" plan, which is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, has drawn even more questions about controversial items in the proposed $2 trillion bill. One of those items is $80 million for hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents, according to multiple sources, including Americans for Tax Reform and Headline USA. In a statement released on the Build Back Better framework in late October, the White House said "the IRS does not have the resources it needs to pursue wealthy tax cheats." But new evidence indicates tens of thousands of those new IRS agents...

All 3 suspects in Walnut Creek Nordstrom theft out of custody; DA says 2 of them shouldn't be There's now a parole hold and bench warrant out for Dana Dawson's arrest after she didn't show up for court this past Friday. WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- All three suspects arrested in a Walnut Creek Nordstrom flash-mob style theft are out of custody, and the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office says two of them shouldn't be. There's now a parole hold and bench warrant out for Dana Dawson's arrest after she didn't show up for court this past Friday. Walnut...

Theory of the deuteron-deuteron nuclear reactions at very low energies K. Czerski [1] , M. Kaczmarski [1] , A. Kowalska1,[2], N. Targosz-Sleczka [1] , M. Valat [1] [1] Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland [2] Maritime University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland The phenomenon known as “cold fusion”, based on the deuteron-deuteron fusion reactions taking place in metallic environments at thermal energies, offers the perspective for a cheap and clean energy source. Apart from poor reproducibility of the relevant experiments, there are still some important theoretical questions that need to be clarified in order to optimize experimental conditions...

The Biden administration has deemed the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be as severe as the nuclear threat from Iran, the Jerusalem Post cited multiple Israeli diplomatic sources as saying. “The Americans bring up ‘settler violence’ all the time, obsessively,” the report quoted a senior diplomatic source as saying. During Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s visit to Washington last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted on devoting an equal amount of time to discussing both Iran and the settlements – a fact Israeli diplomats found “baffling,” the report said.