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A guest on the Tucker Carlson show outlined the answer to this question {Direct Rumble Link} which has been stated in these pages and a multitude of conversations for well over a year. Why has there been this massive disproportionate push for vaccination against a virus which, all things considered, is NOT that deadly? For two years, as we have watched the various governments around the world pushing the COVID-19 vaccination, many have asked this question? The demand and effort is wildly disproportionate to the risk. So why has this vaccination program been so severely pushed, including the mandates and...

U.S. Supreme Court denies Trump's request to block the release of White House records from Jan. 6 "select committee" by an 8-1 vote.

White Karen with a WHIP?

City of Portland Maine Health & Human Services Department Kristen Dow, Director MEMORANDUM To: Mayor Snyder and Members of the Portland City Council cc: Danielle West, Interim City Manager From: Kristen Dow, Director of Health & Human Services Date: January 14, 2022 Re: HHS Homelessness and Emergency Shelter Update Over the past several months we have continued to see a steady increase in the number of asylum seeking families arriving from the southern border. As of the date of this memo, we are providing shelter to 225 families for 735 individuals, and we have seen a total of 30 new...

French actor Gaspard Ulliel, best known for playing Hannibal Lecter in "Hannibal Rising," has died at the age of 37 after a skiing accident in southeastern France. The accident happened on Tuesday at 4 p.m. local time (10 a.m ET) at the La Rosière ski resort in the Alpine department of Savoie, according to a Wednesday statement from Albertville prosecutor's office. After Ulliel left the top of a blue ski run, he collided with another skier and both fell to the ground, the statement said. The other skier didn't suffer any injuries. When the emergency team arrived at the scene,...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test rule for private employers, companies nationwide are faced with a decision: Go ahead with a vaccine mandate anyway, or abandon it. No matter which path companies choose, backlash appears near certain. This week, workwear company Carhartt became the latest example of the public tightrope employers must walk to balance the health and safety concerns of employees against staffing challenges, potential legal liability and customer blowback. "Employers are between a rock and a hard place. You have a responsibility as an employer to provide a safe working environment for...

A Panama City business owner is trying to find out who vandalized his property on Tuesday night. Roberto Price, the owner of “Prices Right Roofing Inc.,” said on Tuesday night around 7 o’clock, someone ripped his two Donald Trump banners off the side of his building and set one on fire. A nearby neighbor called the Panama City Police Department and Price when he saw the fire. The neighbor’s surveillance camera showed two people running away from the business. “It was burning right there next to my building,” Price said. “Which is right next to a propane tank. So in...

The only thing falling faster than CNN’s ratings is the network’s credibility and on Tuesday, the self-proclaimed “most trusted name in news” was savagely mocked over its complete lack of self-awareness over the announcement of a brand new team dedicated to covering misinformation. (snip) In a Twitter post soliciting resumes for 3 positions that he needs to fill, Alex Koppelman who is the managing editor for CNN Business proudly announced the formation of the new team, clearly oblivious to the irony given his employer’s own tendencies to act as purveyors of misleading information. “Hello Twitter! Some very exciting MEDIA JOBS...

President Biden addressed the brewing conflict between Russia and Ukraine during a press briefing Wednesday, saying of Russian President Vladimir Putin, "my guess is he will move in." -snip- Biden said that Russia will be "held accountable if it invades" but added that "it depends on what it does." "It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera." -snip- Biden's suggestion that there may not be devastating sanctions over a "minor incursion" by Russia is sure to spark alarm in Ukraine, where top officials have...

California has settled litigation against its inclusion of prayers to Aztec and Yoruba gods that were approved in the state's ethnic studies "model curriculum" this spring. The lawsuit alleged that children were expected to participate in these prayers or "face the social implications of declining to participate," a violation of their free exercise. The plaintiffs claim the California Constitution is stricter than the U.S. Constitution on separation of church and state. The settlement requires California to remove the “In Lak Ech Affirmation” and “Ashe Affirmation” from the online ESMC and notify "all school districts, charter schools and county offices of...

Supreme Court justices have weighed in after reports alleged that the reason Justice Sonia Sotomayor is participating in arguments from her chambers as opposed to sitting with colleagues is because of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s refusal to wear a mask. “Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false. While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends,” Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, and Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said in a Jan. 19 joint statement sent to The Epoch Times by a court spokesperson. One report from NPR alleged that...

Determined to reduce childhood obesity, Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Wednesday to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks. At a City Council meeting, Lightfoot introduced an ordinance that would prohibit Chicago restaurants from serving or marketing pop and other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals. Parents would still be able to request sugary drinks for their children. Instead, the “default” beverages on kids meals would be: • Water or sparkling water or flavored water with “no added natural or artificial sweeteners” • Nonfat or 1% dairy milk containing “no more than 130...

CHICAGO - A Chicago woman who reported being carjacked on Saturday night had just gotten her car back after she was carjacked three days earlier, according to a local report. A 39-year-old female was sitting inside her car in the 5100 block of N. Broadway around midnight when three unknown men wearing all black, ski masks, and rack suits approached her, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) told Fox News on Monday morning. The men pointed a gun at her and demanded her vehicle before fleeing with the car. No one has been arrested as of early Monday, police said. The...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing existential concerns by the country's president, Vladimir Putin, even as he warned of significant economic consequences should such an incursion occur. But he suggested a "minor incursion" would elicit a lesser response than a full-scale invasion of the country. "I'm not so sure he is certain what he is going to do. My guess is he will move in. He has to do something," Biden said

600 Austrian law enforcement officers have written to the Austrian Interior Minister, requesting that proposals for forced vaccination be withdrawn and that prejudice against the unvaccinated be ended.The letter, written on January 10, was signed by three law enforcement personnel who purport to representing nearly 600 of their coworkers and was written to Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner.“We do not want to face the population in a threatening manner during what are predominantly peaceful demonstrations which were organized due to the increasing dissatisfaction of the people with politicians,” wrote the authors of the letter.Numerous protests were held around Austria last...

[Catholic Caucus] Crackdown On Old-Rite-Institutes Continues In MarchFrancis and his hardliners are preparing two more liturgical documents, reports La-Croix.com (January 17).In March, one decree will be fired at those Old Rite Institutes which have sold themselves to the Vatican. Another will replace the document Liturgiam authenticam (2001) which controls the quality of Novus Ordo liturgical translations.La-Croix.com further knows that Francis' suppression of the Ecclesia Dei Commission which was responsible for the Roman Rite, was an act of vengeance because Ecclesia Dei had authorised the Holy Week celebration according to the 1954 Roman Missal which Pius XII in 1955 replaced with...

What happened to the FBI? ... The FBI’s Dallas division’s special agent in charge, Matthew DeSarno, described the gunman to the press as “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” I don’t blame SAC DeSarno — a former colleague — for this disbelieve-your-lying-eyes assessment. He takes his orders from FBI headquarters. And we exist in woke times. Yes, sometimes investigations take time, and we don’t want to release inaccurate information. Yet this was a ground ball. The White House asserted the FBI’s course correction a day later, allowing that, of course, the...

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a woman to death over allegedly blasphemous messages sent over WhatsApp and Facebook. Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was found guilty and given a death sentence by a court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday after a complaint was registered against her under Pakistan’s draconian cybercrime and blasphemy laws According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp. He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook...

“The mRNA vaccines are extremely dangerous, in my opinion, and the technology is novel and untested,” Dr Seneff began her presentation, “today I want to focus on neurodegeneration and prion diseases.”Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her recent interests have focused on the role of toxic chemicals and micronutrient deficiencies in health and disease, with a special emphasis on the pervasive herbicide, glyphosate, and the mineral, sulphur.During a presentation at a World Council for Health General Assembly Meeting earlier this month, Dr. Seneff explained that a...

Italian Critic & Art Historian Cionci: "Bergoglio [Francis] caught in lies & coverup of Pedophile abuse in Argentina... Bergoglio has never officially responded to the charges" Today, the From Rome website published the authorized English translation of a Italian critic and art historian Andrea Cionci article titled "BREAKING: Bergoglio caught in lies & coverup of Pedophile abuse in Argentina." Cionci said that "Bergoglio has never officially responded to the charges" of his "lying and coverup of pedophile abuse in Argentina":In 2018, the German state televistion channel ZDG broadcast a troubling documentary by Martin Boudat, entitled, “The Code of Silence”,...