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Ten out of 13 members of the Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Department quit at a fire district board meeting on Monday night after a convicted arsonist was appointed acting fire chief. The Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Protection District Board of Trustees met in East Carondelet on Dec. 20 and fired Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Chief John Rosencranz, KTVI reported. The board gave no reason for the termination as they replaced Chief Rosencranz with Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Assistant Chief Jerame Simmons, who was sitting at the same table. In a statement released after the meeting on...

State officials in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who sought to block transparency and accountability over the 2020 election were handed a defeat on Thursday, according to the non-profit legal foundation The Amistad Project. “The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ruled in favor of The Amistad Project and Fulton County, Pennsylvania, allowing the county to send its Dominion voting machines to the State Senate for inspection on January 10,” the group stated in a press release. “The court recognized that it was improper to demand that the county – which owns the machines, and has the responsibility of running the election...

"If you are one of those people who wants more Joe Biden, Tuesday was your lucky day. The president delivered a double dose by holding forth on two distinct topics bedeviling his presidency. The first was a long-winded, dreary and convoluted planned address on his administration’s response to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. It dealt with life and death, but was delivered in an obligatory manner, as if he would have rather spent the time getting to know his new pet dog. The second dose of Biden came during a brief question-and-answer session with reporters afterward, and it...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released his 2021 “Festivus” Report, which detailed a total of $52,598,515,585 in government waste. Paul is chairman of the Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight (ETSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and is on the Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC). This marks Dr. Paul’s and the subcommittee’s seventh edition of the Festivus Report , which the Senator described as a way to “alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.” Areas of spending are broken down into various sections, including COVID-related spending, Afghanistan, and miscellaneous expenditure. Examples include $11.3 million...

“I am asymptomatic,” Clyburn shared on Twitter, urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted. “No one is immune.” Fully vaccinated House Majority Whip James Clyburn announced on Twitter Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID-19. “This is a breakthrough case, and I am asymptomatic,” the South Carolina congressman shared in a statement. “America is in a new phase of this pandemic. No one is immune,” Clyburn wrote. “I urge anyone who has not done so to protect themselves by getting vaccinated and boosted.” Clyburn is not the only lawmaker to test positive for COVID-19 in recent days. As reported by...

"Los Angeles mother and young adult author Jennifer Chen says she's "so proud" that her daughter has decided to announce that she is non-binary and prefers to use they/them/he pronouns. The child, kindergarten-age Claire, now wants to be called "Clark" and asks those around to refer to her as Chen's "kid" or "son who is non-binary." Chen shared the family's holiday card on Instagram in late November. The card features Chen, her husband Brendan Hay, and their twins, Chloe and Clark. "I'd like you all to meet Clark (formerly known as Claire)," Chen captioned the family photo. "Clark prefers they/them/he...

Property owners and businesses in York are being encouraged to display new signs to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Matthew Howie, with the city health bureau, said the signs are a way to remind people of the importance of masks and social distancing. The new graphics can be downloaded from a city website and printed. "Historically, businesses have been very open to this sort of messaging," he said. There are five messages, including one that says, "Masks still help." Another says, "Spread kindness, not COVID-19. " "This is one of the challenging messages to get out there because...

"Months ago, the Taliban drove American forces from Afghanistan. The Biden administration fled the nation abandoning billions of dollars worth of military hardware to the enemy and deserting American citizens and loyal Afghans trapped in Taliban territory. The Taliban are now hard at work transforming Afghanistan into a 6th-century nightmare and offering sanctuary to the world’s most dangerous terrorist groups. And Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill want to respond to all this by handing the Taliban $9.4 billion. Monday a group of mostly Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Joe Biden, pressing him to ease sanctions and unblock the Afghan...

At the CVS down the street, the lines are very long to buy home Covid testing kits, $24 a pop, limit four per customer. Everyone seemed to be buying four. Employees cannot restock fast enough. We can speculate why. Are businesses demanding negative tests from the unvaccinated? Is Omicron sweeping the country and people need to confirm? Do we have another round of disease panic happening? It’s most likely that everyone in line has a different answer. My intuition, for what it is worth: this virus is everywhere. Lots of people are sick. Do you have some sense that we’ve...

During his marathon annual year-end press conference Q&A, which this year lasted about four hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again vowed to defend Russian society against the intrusion of the corrupted values of the West, in particular blasting the "gender obscurantism" pushed by the United States and Europe."I am a proponent of the traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man," Putin laid out, which it goes without saying also reflects basic Biology 101 and humans' self-understanding for thousands upon thousands of years. He continued in the remarks on gender: "A mother is...

"Days after President Biden publicly promised to provide 500 million free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests, his administration has still not signed any contracts — leading experts to deride it as nothing but a “hope.” The president has already been accused of being caught unprepared when he announced the vague plans for a testing spree only on Tuesday, two years into the pandemic. Now the New York Times has revealed that contracts have yet to be signed, and are unlikely to be until next week at the earliest — with the eventual rollout of his promise potentially taking months after that....

Using optical microscopy, La Quinta Columna finds the famous “nano-octopus” that appeared in the Pfizer vaccine vial analysed by Dr. Campra, observed by Dr. Carrie Madej under the microscope, and also found by the Polish scientist Dr. Franc Zalewksi.“It looks like an insect. It looks like an insect because of its leg-like shape,” Ricardo Delgado from La Quinta Columna said. Orwell City: Nanotechnology and Graphene Oxide in Pfizer vaccineLa Quinta Columna’s video also shows other microparticles moving in the Pfizer injection, likely carrying nanoparticles, “it’s as if whatever it is that we see is really self-assembling and assembling, as I...

Coming days after the US and Japan reached an agreement on a new cost-sharing deal for Tokyo to continue hosting around 50,000 US troops, for which Japan will pay $9.2 billion over the next five years, which is a significant cost increase compared to what Tokyo was previously paying, a joint draft plan has been revealed for an emergency response contingency in the event China threatens to invade Taiwan. First reported in Japan’s Kyodo news agency on Thursday, unnamed Japanese officials detailed the plan was struck between the US and Japanese militaries, and arranges for a forward operating base to...

"These wheels change shape to fit terrain and carry heavy loads. With diameters ranging from 18" (46 cm) to 31.5" (80 cm). They can work with various vehicles. They are collapsed and small in natural state. When squeezed horizontally, they fold up and reach the maximum diameter. Hankook developed them with Seoul National University and Harvard University. Inspired by origami, the wheel has a three-layer structure. ..."

During his marathon annual year-end press conference Q&A, which this year lasted about four hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again vowed to defend Russian society against the intrusion of the corrupted values of the West, in particular blasting the “gender obscurantism” pushed by the United States and Europe. “I am a proponent of the traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” Putin laid out, which it goes without saying also reflects basic Biology 101 and humans’ self-understanding for thousands upon thousands of years. He continued in the remarks on gender: “A mother...

"...(PUTIN) insisted that Russia has a historical right to be involved in Eastern Ukraine and blamed NATO for bringing missiles to Russia's doorstep..."

A study posted on the preprint site medRxiv shows that Covid mRNA injections are causing immune system dysregulation, a breakdown of immune system processes. In other words, researchers are finding that the injections reprogram not only your adaptive immune system, but the innate immune system as well.It’s this feature that is probably causing the resurgences of viral infections and adverse events with the Covid injections. What this means for children, as health care decision makers push for them to get the injections, is that their innate systems — which are naturally very strong — may be challenged to the point...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials reported Thursday that there were 1,350 new cases of coronavirus identified in Oregon, pushing the state’s total number of identified cases to more than 410,000.

A doctor in the A&E department in Australia revealed that those who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are dying in huge numbers.To protect his identity for fear of possible retaliation by Australian public health authorities and other government entities, the doctor’s face and voice had to be obscured. However, he proclaimed: “But I am blowing the whistle.”The whistleblower first raised his concerns after the Australian government began involving children in its mass vaccination program.He said: “I am increasingly perplexed at the continued government backing of a medical intervention marred by serious complications in the young when there are zero benefits...

A record number of Democrats say they approve of socialism, even as Americans overall remain steadfast in their opposition. A record-high 65 percent of Democrats tell the Gallup polling organization they have a positive view of socialism, a drastic increase over the 53 percent who said the same in 2010. Gallup has conducted six polls since 2010 asking Americans if they have a positive or negative view of small business, free enterprise, capitalism, “big business,” socialism and the federal government. Gallup’s 2021 poll found 60 percent of Americans approving of capitalism and 38 percent approving of socialism. That figure has...