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Joy-Ann Reid called for tax increases on people who choose not to receive vaccines because of their health concerns. Her comments were made during her MSNBC program on Wednesday afternoon. ‘At some point, I feel like people who are willfully unvaccinated, fine, don’t get vaccinated. But they need to start to pay a little bit more of the cost of what this is doing to our system.’ After referring to how other countries around the world are reacting to those who refuse the COVID vaccine, Reid, 52, went on to discuss how the vaccine is being treated in other countries....

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he was "completely shocked" and "incredibly disappointed" at a video of maskless singing and dancing at a Hillsong Church youth camp near Newcastle. Health authorities yesterday demanded singing and dancing immediately stop at the event, as NSW police intervened to "ensure future compliance" with COVID-19 restrictions. The video showed hundreds of participants maskless, singing and dancing inside a large tent with performers on stage. "I echo the frustration and anger that people right across the state have felt," Mr. Perrottet said on Friday. Mr. Perrottet said it was his "expectation" a fine would be issued....

In a crushing blow to his pandemic response, Biden urged businesses to impose vaccine mandates on their own and urged states to ‘do the right thing’ after the Supreme Court blocked his sweeping rules on private companies. The high court, however, permitted an employee vaccination mandate at health care centers receiving federal funds to go into effect. Twenty-seven states had petitioned the Supreme Court to issue a stay on the rule while it is battled out in the judicial system. Biden has suffered a series of setbacks in the past 48 hours, who hasn’t been able to win Democratic support...

The Department of Energy (DOE) invested $1.1 billion in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, many of which were unsuccessful or canceled, over the last decade, according to a federal watchdog report.The DOE’s $684 million investment in coal CCS projects resulted in just one operational facility and seven canceled projects, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in late December. One of three facilities that received a share of the department’s $438 million investment in industrial CCS projects was also nixed.The department ultimately failed to properly evaluate the projects — which use advanced technology to reduce emissions from...

Ex-officers up to 70 years of age are being pulled out of retirement in Upper-Austria to help enforce national lockdown rules in the province. Previously retired officers up to 70 years of age have been asked to return to active service in order to help enforce lockdown rules in the province. The state police department — under the instruction of Governor Thomas Stelzer — wrote to around 700 officers late last year to request they return to active duty. While those who accept the request will not be given a police uniform, according to a report by Kronen Zeitung, they...

KYRIE IRVING OF THE BROOKLYN NETS After all the back and forth, and Kyrie sitting out half the season, it appears the Nets can simply pay $5K per game to allow Kyrie to play in home games in Brooklyn. The Nets have a total of 22 home games remaining. Kyrie Irving could be available in Nets home games if Brooklyn is willing to pay a ‘small fine’, per @SBondyNYDN1st offense: Warning.2nd offense: $1K fine.3rd offense: $2K fine.4th offense: $5K fine.5th offense to infinity offenses: $5K fine(Via https://t.co/g9z4zDGSRz) pic.twitter.com/3WXCfxdULm— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) January 12, 2022

Across the industry, omicron infections and winter storms have reportedly contributed to upwards of 20,000 flight cancellations in the U.S. between Christmas Eve and the first week of January. United Airlines also announced this week that four percent of its workforce (3,000 out of nearly 70,000) have called out sick for coronavirus. As of Thursday, Delta has only canceled one percent of its flights in the past week, showing that cancellations have “eased significantly” since the holidays. Bastian told CNBC’s Squawk Box that sick employees have had “no significant health issues.” According to the report, later last year, the airline...

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated five Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) individuals responsible for procuring goods for the DPRK’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile-related programs. These actions are in line with U.S. efforts to prevent the advancement of the DPRK’s WMD and ballistic missile programs and impede attempts by Pyongyang to proliferate related technologies. They also follow the DPRK’s six ballistic missile launches since September 2021, each of which violated multiple United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs). “Today’s actions, part of the United States’ ongoing efforts to...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Where Are You, Martin Luther King? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of...

The NCAA on Thursday released its new COVID guidance for winter sports, and the guidance contains some important news. As ESPN reports, the NCAA Medical Advisory Group updated its definition of “fully vaccinated” to account for various new vaccinations, boosters, and immunity factors. “Fully vaccinated individuals now include those within two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, five months of receiving the Pfizer vaccine series or six months of receiving the Moderna vaccine series; and individuals who are beyond the aforementioned timeline and have received the booster vaccine.” But perhaps the biggest development came in the following line....

I’ve already predicted that 2022 is going to exemplify how powerful of a force both capitalism and common sense can be.I started out the year by predicting that these two forces would catalyze a massive pivot in how the mainstream media reports on Covid.Only days later, we are already starting to see shades of the pivot that I spoke about. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appears to have turned her focus to people with comorbidities and “reporters” like Jake Tapper are finally admitting that not everybody hospitalized with Covid has been hospitalized for Covid. As we look forward to what pivots...

If you’re sick and tired of hearing the term “misinformation,” you’re not alone. It’s become one of the most overused phrases in the last couple of years, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon. The left has found it incredibly useful in that it sounds malicious in nature while being incredibly malleable in meaning.As of late, “misinformation” is a nebulous term used by the left to describe something that challenges “the science” on COVID-19. In other words, if someone like Dr. Anthony Fauci says that masks are necessary to halt the spread of COVID-19 and people show...

Joe Rogan really set off the left when he had on Dr. Robert Malone as his guest on the show. The episode was nothing short of eye-opening. Malone, one of the fathers of the modern vaccine, divulged information on everything from the COVID-19 vaccine, insider baseball within the medical community, and how the government uses politics to make the coronavirus profitable. As a person who listened to it myself, I can tell you that it’s a must-hear.However, not everyone wants you to sit and listen to Dr. Malone, and in fact, would like to have Rogan censored in order to...

President Biden urged businesses to bring in vaccine mandates on their own and pushed states to 'do the right thing' after the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to block his sweeping rules on private companies in a crushing blow to his pandemic response. The high court did however allow a vaccine mandate for employees at health care facilities receiving federal dollars to go into effect. Twenty-seven states had petitioned the Supreme Court to issue a stay on the rule while it is battled out in the judicial system. It's the latest setback in a devastating 48 hours for Biden, who failed...

GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, more commonly known as "Dr. Oz" from his TV program "The Dr. Oz Show," called infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci a “petty tyrant” and challenged him to a debate on COVID-19. “It's past time Fauci faces the fact that he got COVID wrong. So, doctor to doctor – let's debate. This Doctor is in, are you?” Oz said in a tweet Thursday while posting a campaign ad attacking Fauci.

Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos will take control of the Deer Park refinery in Houston, Texas on Jan. 20, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) in May agreed to sell its majority stake in the Deer Park refinery, which can process up to 340,000 barrels per day (bpd), to Pemex (PEMX.UL), its long-time partner in the plant, for about $596 million.

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Both Lidl and Kaufland supermarkets have now tried to implement prison-like fences within their Romanian stores to segregate the unvaccinated from documented™ vaccine green pass holders. I was going to head to my local store to film a short live-action movie with a couple of friends of mine dressed as zombies, the plan being for the ‘zombies’ to attack the fence from within the undocumented area while my friends and I, dressed in military camo gear, shouted out “perimeter alert!” to see people's reactions. Unfortunately, though, we never had the opportunity to film our escapades. This was not because of...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed Reddit, Twitter and the parent companies of Google and Facebook on Thursday after their "inadequate responses" to requests for information about what they did and didn't do in the lead-up to the deadly attack.......A letter to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's parent company, Meta, failed to turn over information about its decision to disband its civic integrity team "that focused on risks to elections including misinformation."

The Supreme Court came in today with a decision blocking the Biden administration’s OSHA mandate on private businesses with 100 or more employees requiring that employees be vaccinated or tested weekly. The Court ruled they didn’t have the unilateral power to impose such a mandate. The Court did, however, allow a vaccine mandate for workers at federally funded health care facilities to take effect nationwide.Not only did the Court soundly reject Joe Biden in the effort to impose his will on private businesses, Justice Neil Gorsuch also reserved a few words for White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.When the...