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DALLAS (AP) — The wife of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge that the right-wing provocateur said stems from a "medication imbalance.” Sheriff's deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jail around 8:45 p.m. Friday. Jail records show the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport. She had not received a bond Saturday afternoon. Alex Jones, an Austin resident and founder of the right-wing media group Infowars, declined Saturday to say whether he'd been injured...

This week marked a turning point in the Israeli government’s response to the Omicron variant, beginning with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Sunday evening address warning of a “fifth wave” of the coronavirus and hinting of a possible lockdown this winter. ..... During deliberations this week, Health Ministry officials spoke with senior government officials, working to convince ministers to back far-reaching steps to contain the Omicron variant. On Tuesday night, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (Yamina) revealed some of the startling data provided by a senior Health Ministry official, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, chief of the public health department within the Ministry. “Seven...

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that the Biden administration has “created this turbocharged economy,” which does have the bad side of inflation, but despite the inflation issue, the Biden administration is “right to try to be aggressive on this and keep things going.” Brooks stated, “[T]hey put their pedal to the metal. I give them credit for that. They’ve really created this turbocharged economy, which has its good sides, incredible job growth. It has its bad sides, the inflation. But I think they’re right to try to be aggressive on this and keep things...

New Jersey is set to pay approximately $53 million in settling claims its negligence contributed to the deaths of over 100 veterans in state-run homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, attorneys announced Thursday.

Sad news is coming from the NY Times as Deputy Asia Editor Carlos Tejada has died from a heart attack. In their 700+ word article discussing his life and career, they mentioned how he died but omitted one extremely important detail. Tejada, 49, received his booster shot the day before his death. Independent Journalist Alex Berenson reported on his Substack: Carlos Tejada was married and had two children; he spent his career at the Wall Street Journal before joining the Times in 2016. In July, he received a Johnson & Johnson DNA/AAV Covid vaccine. He was thankful to get it,...

Explanation: The tail of a comet streams across this three degree wide telescopic field of view captured under dark Namibian skies on December 21. In outburst only a few days ago and just reaching naked eye visibility Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) is this year's brightest comet. Binoculars will make the diffuse comet easier to spot though, close to the western horizon after sunset. Details revealed in the sharp image show the comet's coma with a greenish tinge, and follow the interaction of the comet's ion tail with magnetic fields in the solar wind. After passing closest to Earth on December...

NY Times Editor Carlos Tejada, 49, Dies of Heart Attack as Corporate Media Ignores What He Was Injected With the Day Before Sad news is coming from the NY Times as Deputy Asa Editor Carlos Tejada has died from a heart attack. In their 700+ word article discussing his life and career, they mentioned how he died but omitted one extremely important detail. Tejada, 49, received his booster shot the day before his death. Independent Journalist Alex Berenson reported on his Substack: Carlos Tejada was married and had two children; he spent his career at the Wall Street Journal before...

"I'm always having the woke Christmas. So, you know, I'm always hating on Christmas, and telling everybody that Kwaanza is a better holiday than Christmas. So that's my favorite thing to do, just hating on Christmas." Michael Harriot, on Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show. View the video at link.

A Central Point father of four who wished President Joe Biden and the first lady a wonderful Christmas and added “Let’s go, Brandon,” at the end of a live streamed Santa tracker call told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he didn’t intend his parting message to be vulgar. “At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” said Jared Schmeck, 35, who works for an electric company and was previously a Medford police officer for six years until he resigned in July 2018. “I mean...

Someone is changing the voter files from the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections in Georgia. Who is doing this and is it even legal? If it is legit why is it done in secret?Massive problems are being uncovered in Georgia’s certified 2020 Election results. As these are being uncovered, someone is altering the files saved online related to the election.The individuals at VoterGA and David Cross have uncovered another material issue in Georgia.If the Secretary of State is supposed to maintain all election records, why is the voter history file not frozen in time on election day? If...

The Los Angeles Police Department officer who opened fire on a suspect in a Burlington store in North Hollywood on Thursday has been placed on leave as officials investigate the shooting that killed a 14-year-old girl, CBS Los Angeles reports. The investigation has been handed to the California Department of Justice under a new law that requires any deadly shooting at the hands of an officer — intentional or not — to be investigated by the state's attorney general. Police responded to the store Thursday morning after several 911 calls reported possible shots fired. They encountered a suspect who allegedly...

Do you, like many Americans, feel especially charitable this time of year? Enjoy helping those in need? Better buy a permit.As Americans around the country celebrate the Giving Season, various elected officials are busy trying to put a stop to all this charitable mumbo jumbo. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., the city council is considering a rule that would require people to obtain a permit to share food with the homeless and others in need. "A new ordinance is being considered that limits where people can serve meals on public property, including parks and sidewalks," Nashville's Fox 17 reported last month. "The...

The Spectator editor Fraser Nelson recently had an exchange with Graham Medley, chair of SPI-M, a committee of Sage Modeling, who came up with a pretty grim outlook for the “Omicron” (Moronic) variant of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). It turns out that Sage only churns out worst-case scenarios, Moronic included, that sidestep any possibility of a positive outcome because this is what politicians expect in order to impose more fascism. The latest Sage papers, Nelson explains, envisage anything from 200 to 6,000 deaths per day from Moronic depending on the level of restrictions imposed. There is no scenario from Sage...

You're All Gonna Get Sick and Die This Winter!Whenever Biden and his bumbling band of 'advisers' make another moronic announcement, this story comes to mind. Once upon a time, a liberal politician was giving a speech on a farm in a red state. The audience was composed of Bible reading, God loving, gun owning, patriotic Americans. Hillary knows them as depolorables and Bette Midler recently referred to all West Virginians as, "poor, illiterate and strung out." Poor Bette. Life is hard and even harder if you're stupid. The politician was nervous, and the crowd was rather large, but they seemed...

If you want to understand the way prescription drugs are marketed today, have a look at the 1928 book, "Propaganda," by Edward Bernays, the father of public relations in America. SNIP Just as Bernays sold pianos by selling the music room, pharmaceutical marketers now sell drugs by selling the diseases that they treat. The buzzword is "disease branding." To brand a disease is to shape its public perception in order to make it more palatable to potential patients. Panic disorder, reflux disease, erectile dysfunction, restless legs syndrome, bipolar disorder, overactive bladder, ADHD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, even clinical depression: All these...

In this extended interview, I ask Dr. Paul about his latest confrontation with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci recently said that his critics, like Senator Paul, are "really criticizing science, because I represent science.” That’s arrogant. Paul calls it “reminiscent of the medieval Church,” and he says new evidence proves Fauci did in fact play a part in funding gain of function research in China. We also discuss the rise of inflation in America, and Paul’s fear that irresponsible politicians could destroy the dollar. Extended Interview [30 mins] ...

Blaming the unvaccinated is the sharpest tool in President Joe Biden's shed, and that is not healthy for America. Consider Biden's address to the nation on COVID-19 from the White House State Dining Room Tuesday. Biden started off well enough as he offered that he shared the public's frustration and loss and commended Americans who have been vaccinated. Then he turned to vaccination shaming. "You have an obligation to yourselves, to your family and, quite frankly — I know I'll get criticized for this — to your country" to get vaccinated, Biden declared. He added, "I honest to God believe...

Early benchmarks from Denmark on infections and hospitalizations are providing grounds for guarded optimism that highly vaccinated countries might be able to weather the omicron wave. The developments, coupled with Denmark’s speedy rollout of booster shots, have raised hopes the country can avoid the dire coronavirus surge for which it has been bracing. Europe faces its second covid Christmas with lockdowns, cancellations and rising cases “It’s too early to relax, but it’s encouraging that we are not following the worst-case scenario,” said Tyra Grove Krause, the chief epidemiologist at Denmark’s State Serum Institute. Denmark’s detailed, nationwide program for coronavirus testing...

Social media posts circulating in Indonesia claim that eating fruit on an empty stomach will "cure cancer". The claim has circulated online in the Southeast Asian nation since at least 2013. It also recently recirculated in French-speaking African countries. But experts told AFP there is no scientific evidence to support the claim. "EATING FRUIT ON AN EMPTY STOMACH," reads this Indonesian-language Facebook post published on November 26, 2021. "Dr STEPHEN MAK treats terminal cancer patients in a unique way. Many of the patients recovered. 'This is my strategy to cure cancer. The success rate is 80 percent,' said Mak." "Cancer...

Hallelujah! Glory be to God! As we remember and rejoice at the birth of Christ the King of Kings in Bethlehem, we also know that through God's gift of His Son for the world, we are born again, spiritually. And today, and every day, people who don't know God and are His enemies are being born anew through the work of the Holy Spirit. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!"