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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was asked in a press conference earlier this month whether members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks, despite often having access to insider information.Pelosi was all in favor of it, saying “We’re a free-market economy” and that members of Congress “should be able to participate in that.”REPORTER: "Should members of congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while serving in congress?"PELOSI: "No…We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that." pic.twitter.com/2SNqSCwFEU— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 15, 2021Turns out that within a few days of that,...

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The Department of Defense is constructing a new courtroom for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay which will not allow the public inside the chamber, The New York Times reports. The courtroom, the second at the military base, will also allow two military judges to preside over separate proceedings simultaneously. In larger cases, such as the trials of five men accused of planning the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the hearings would take place in the currently existing chamber that is accessible by the public via a gallery. The new chamber, which costs about $4 million, would be used...

In his novel “Anna Karenina,” Tolstoy writes that “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Something similar can be said about New York City mayors: Successful ones share policies and leadership traits, while the failed ones chart individual paths of doom. Over the last five decades, Gotham has experienced both. The successful mayors — Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg — stand tall because they took office in times of crises and turned New York’s fortunes around. They had their warts, but each left the city better off than when he started.

Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data.During his update on his Winter Covid Campaign on Tuesday, President Biden declared, “Almost everyone who has died from COVID-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.” This was true from the start of the pandemic in early 2020, until the vaccines’ efficacy began failing badly in recent months. Oregon officially classifies roughly a quarter of its Covid fatalities since August...

Prosecutors dropped a case against two jail guards accused of sleeping on the job as Epstein died. They made the decision on December 13, in the middle of Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. The decision to drop the indictment against the guards wasn't made public until December 30. In the middle of Ghislaine Maxwell's child-sex-trafficking trial, federal prosecutors quietly dropped their case against two jail guards accused of sleeping on the job and falsifying jail records as Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his cell. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan signed a nolle prosequi, a document announcing to the judge that they wished to...

While taxi drivers in New York City may have finally "ridden" out the absolute worst effects of enduring the ridesharing boom and the pandemic at the same time, the road to clearer skies still looks dim. That's because, as was pointed out by @JBaksht on Twitter this week, taxi medallions have still plunged 90% over the last decade.The plunge in medallion value came at the same time that Lyft and Uber began to register hundreds of thousands of daily trips in New York City. Prior to the pandemic, Uber had peaked at over 500,000 trips per day, while Lyft was...

“There’s been no monthly review of new therapies. There’s been no monthly review of data safety and efficacy for the vaccines. Nothing. Americans for two years have been stonewalled on any scientific information on COVID-19.” In this two-part interview, we sit down with Dr. Peter McCullough, an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, and principal author of the first paper on early COVID-19 outpatient treatment involving multidrug regimens. We discuss the full body of evidence on COVID-19 treatment, including a preventative method that may have stamped out COVID-19 in Bangladesh. And with concerns growing about myocarditis and other effects of the vaccines, McCullough...

Last week South Africa became the first country to dial back COVID-19 restrictions after it became clear that the Omicron variant was far more mild than other strains, and that it had peaked much sooner than expected. On Christmas Eve, the government announced that contacts of Covid-positive cases will no longer need to test or self-isolate if they aren't showing symptoms, while those who develop mild symptoms will be required to isolate for eight days, and anyone with severe symptoms will need to isolate for 10 daysLet us remind you that South Africa is roughly 75% unvaccinated.Three days later, the...

Former Mickey Mouse Club star Tiffini Hale died on Christmas morning after suffering from cardiac arrest earlier this month. Tiffini Hale was only 46. Hale’s former Mickey Mouse Club co-stars made the announcement on social media, but did not offer any details about the actress’s death.

Podcast king Joe Rogan doubled down on his assertion that he will not get vaccinated this week, stating that it makes “no sense” for him because he has natural immunity from COVID.While announcing that he will likely have to cancel dates for comedy shows in Canada in the Spring due to vaccine mandates, Rogan said he doesn’t “think I can even get into the country. I’m not vaccinated, I’m not going to get vaccinated, I have antibodies, it doesn’t make any sense.”Rogan also bemoaned the continuing restrictions on events.“I don’t think I can go,” he continued, adding “Even if I...

We think of It's a Wonderful Life as a great American movie, a great Jimmy Stewart movie, a great Frank Capra movie — and, of course, as a great Christmas movie. We don't think of it as a great Italian-American movie. But we should, especially at Christmastime, when Italian-Americans — of Capra's generation and beyond — can be heard in every shop and restaurant singing many of the songs that define the season. Capra was born in Sicily, and at age 6 moved to Los Angeles. It's a Wonderful Life is spiced with subtle but significant references to his fellow...

It's panic time. We need to go into lockdown immediately except for food and emergencies, shut down the borders, institute mandatory double masking, and make booster shots mandatory for all.Steve Kirsch31 min ago 4722 On my weekly vaccine team call, I asked the group the question, “How many people in the US have died from Omicron?” Everyone thought it was zero.Two deaths worldwide from Omicron. It’s panic time.They were wrong. Apparently there might be one death, but it isn’t clear if they were killed by Omicron itself or simply died with Omicron. I think it is the latter since the...

EX-beauty queen Assunta Maresca, who became the first female boss of the dreaded Camorra gang after killing her rival, has died at the age of 86. The feared mob boss, dubbed Pupetta, or "Little Doll" in English, died at her home in Castellamare di Stabia, near Pompeii, following an illness. The heartless mafia icon rose to prominence when she shot dead her husband's killer in Naples at the age of 18 and went on to become the first female boss of the bloody Camorra clan. Maresca - the daughter of a notorious black marketeer - hunted down Antontio Esposito, the...

Fauci admitted on TV that when a kid comes into a hospital for say a broken leg. The hospital will test him for covid. If the kid tests positive, then the kid gets counted as a Covid hospitalization individual. Even though the kid is there for a broken leg. It the same for adults.Watch this 1 minute and 56 second clip below. https://twitter.com/ToTheLifeboats/status/1476743919543144459

DEVELOPING STORY: More than 500 homes and businesses have already burned as a massive wildfire sweeps through Boulder County, Colorado. Thousands of people have been ordered to immediately evacuate. Winds are blowing at more than 100 mph.

In Canada a curfew from 10 pm to 5 am and other restrictions imposed in Quebec... German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urging faster vaccinations to deal with COVID... Tonight thousands protesting on the streets of Germany in Nuremburg (1300), Rosenheim (1000) and Chemnitz (800) against coerced vaccination... Protests opposing forced vaccination planned for Austria on New Year's Eve as authorities seek to discredit and control them... Dutch authorities have banned a protest opposing vaccine passports and coercion planned for Sunday in Amsterdam... Breaking News: Israel Imposed Outdoor Mask Order Starts 4th Jab For Some... Meanwhile in Australia a reset of the...

As President Biden approaches the end of his first year in office, more than half of likely voters believe he is doing a bad job of handling crime and immigration issues, according to a new poll. The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 51 percent of respondents gave Biden a “poor” rating for his approach to crime and law enforcement issues, while only 31 percent rated the president as “excellent” or “good” on the matter. On immigration-related issues, 54 percent of likely voters graded Biden as “poor” and only 27 percent graded him as “excellent” or “good.” Even Biden’s biggest supporters...

In survey, 19% of people with ME/CFS said health worsened after vaccination compared to 4% reported by controls.In a recent survey by the You + ME Registry, which gathers research data on ME/CFS, found that the health of people with ME/CFS is significantly more likely to worsen after Covid-19 vaccination compared to controls.About five months after receiving their first or only shot of Covid-19 vaccine, 19% of survey participants with ME/CFS indicated their health had worsened, 9% reported that it had improved and 73% responded that it had not changed. This compares to 4% of controls (people who did not...

BREAKING: U.S. reports 587,564 new coronavirus cases, setting world record— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) December 31, 2021