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@thefreedomi Senator @RandPaul has introduced two resolutions opposing proposed arms sales to #Egypt. The senate should pass these resolutions & demand human rights are centered in the US' relationship with Egypt. Link...

Two aging Canadian folk-singers, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, the Adam and Eve of the ’60s, are protesting again.Against what? China’s genocide against the Muslim Uighurs? No, something more ominous. They are joining forces — and leveraging their playlist fans — to pressure Spotify to deplatform Joe Rogan. If you are not up on the modern zeitgeist, Joe Rogan is the most influential voice in America today. Joe Rogan is the straw that stirs the national conversation. So much so that Spotify was happy to land him at the $100 million price point. It’s worth noting that Spotify did not...

@RepTroyNehls Joins Tucker Carlson Tonight To Discuss Members Of Capitol Police Spying On Members Of Congress @SheriffTNehls: "They're weaponizing these federal law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies." Tucker: "I hope you get every one one of these cretins fired." Segment...

A source who works for United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Inpatient Utilization Management Department is blowing the whistle on COVID-19 cases possibly being inflated for financial incentive. The brazen instance of such potential abuse was a patient who had multiple gunshot wounds with his primary diagnosis listed as COVID-19. United Healthcare of Louisiana is the states’ Medicaid arm, and as the whistleblower Jeanne Stagg points out in a conversation with the Chief Medical Officer of United Healthcare of Louisiana, Dr. Julie Morial, there are several financial incentives for hospitals to prefer to code patients as COVID-19 hospitalizations. “Well maybe that’s… maybe...

The GOP has morphed from an “evil insect” into a full-blown “terrorist organization,” according to a recent Salon piece that accused Republicans and Trump supporters of seeking a war against American democracy, encouraging widescale violence against the left and minorities, and using “stochastic terrorism” to achieve their aims. Titled “At last the Republican Party comes clean: It stands for terrorism and Trump, against democracy,” penned by staff writer Chauncey DeVega, the Monday Salon essay begins by labeling the Republican Party an “evil” terror group. “In the year-plus since the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the Republican Party has morphed, like...

Amid a growing clamor to lift school mask mandates, the head of the nation’s largest teachers union said Tuesday that a rollback should hinge on student vaccination rates... “At what point do we just say, ‘Okay, it’s time to get rid of the masks’?” asked host Willie Geist after showing Weingarten a copy of Tuesday’s New York Post front page on the matter. “Isn’t there enough science available already?” While the governors of Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware have announced an end to school mask mandates, Weingarten remained circumspect. “The real question becomes, how can we make sure people...

Louisiana and 15 other states on Feb. 4 lodged a new legal challenge against the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, arguing that the dominance of the Omicron virus variant undercuts the justification for the mandate.Approximately 10.4 million workers fall under the vaccination requirements, which apply to every facility that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding.The Supreme Court lifted injunctions against the mandate on Jan. 13, finding in a 5–4 decision that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had the authority to issue the rule requiring vaccination. The mandate...

Israel used the NSO Group’s software as a tool of diplomacy. The F.B.I. wanted it for domestic surveillance. Then everything soured. Here are highlights of a New York Times Magazine investigation. It is widely regarded as the world’s most potent spyware, capable of reliably cracking the encrypted communications of iPhone and Android smartphones. The software, Pegasus, made by an Israeli company, NSO Group, has been able to track terrorists and drug cartels. It has also been used against human rights activists, journalists and dissidents. Now, an investigation published Friday by The New York Times Magazine has found that Israel, which...

Few people have received the kind of love-hate treatment from the media that Elon Musk has. Initially lionized for his role in building Tesla into the world’s preeminent manufacturer of electric cars, Musk saw his public image darken as the media fixated on his increasingly contrarian and – dare we say it – conservative viewpoint on politics, the climate and society. As a result, Musk took to Twitter Tuesday morning in Asia to criticize the traditional media for pumping out a “relentless hate-stream” of bad news. Musk lamented that it’s “so hard to find out what’s going on in the...

Along with all people of faith, we, the Catholic Bishops of Quebec, welcome the reopening of places of worship on February 7, 2022. We see this as recognition by public authorities of the importance of religious gatherings and activities for a large number of citizens. It will thus be possible for the communities to gradually resume their activities and thus provide support and comfort to a large number of people. The resumption of our activities is an opportunity to recall the duty of the State to respect, promote and protect religious freedom. The Declaration on Religious Freedom made during the...

Two weeks ago, the FDA begged a Texas judge to delay production on the first monthly batch of 55,000 pages of Covid-19 vaccine data submitted to the agency by Pfizer. Originally, the agency was set to produce just 500 pages-per-month.Now, Pfizer - which just forecast $54 billion in Covid-related sales in 2022, appears to be anticipating some bad news, as evidenced by several redline changes in their Q4 earnings releases.As Rubicon Capital's Kelly Brown notes on Twitter, the changes center around disclosures of unfavorable safety data.For example, in Q4 they added: "or further information regarding the quality of pre-clinical, clinical...

A man accused of killing an eight-year-old girl in a stray-bullet shooting in Florida was arrested after a raid on a home rented by the Island Boys, two Tik Tok sensations, authorities said. Andrew Thomas, 20, of West Palm Beach, was at the home of the two Florida-based rappers, when he was caught three days after the February 4 murder of Ronziyah 'Ziyah' Atkins, eight. Ziyah was playing around 7 p.m. in the front yard of a home in the 500 block of Southeast First Street in Belle Glade, an hour west of Palm Springs, with her cousins and siblings....

Corporate media outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times have been telling us for years now how Hungary and Poland are incubators of authoritarianism that represent an existential threat to democracy. But it turns out we should have been worried about Canada and Australia, of all places.If you had told me 18 months ago that Australia, a democratic country that once seemed to exude rugged individualism, would devolve into a Covid police state that imprisons its citizens in quarantine camps and deploys riot police to crush lockdown protests with brute force, I wouldn’t have believed you. But here...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will not run for the Senate, rebuffing overtures from senior Senate Republicans who had sought to put another seat in play during the midterm elections. At a press conference Tuesday, Hogan said he had considered a run but that he ultimately concluded he should focus on finishing out his second term as governor. Hogan is term-limited and cannot run for reelection this year. “I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate. I sincerely appreciate all the people who have been encouraging me to consider it. A number of people have said they...

The chaplain faces the loss of his retirement benefits after rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine, but he said 'this is a fight worth fighting. I do not think this is a lawful order.'WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – A U.S. Navy chaplain was among sailors recently denied religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate by the Department of Defense (DOD). Speaking to FOX News, the chaplain, who wished to remain anonymous, faces the loss of his retirement benefits after almost 20 years in the Navy. "It’s a kick in the gut for sure,” he said. “If I lose retirement benefits [by being discharged], that...

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An Ottawa Police Staff Sargent is resigning effectively immediately, likely over political leadership’s mishandling of the Freedom Convoy protests. “The National Telegraph has just gotten word from a source inside the Ottawa Police that one of their staff sergeants has resigned from his position today, likely over a disagreement with the city’s policing philosophy towards the Freedom Convoy,” the National Telegraph reported. “This is a major development for the Ottawa police as senior NCOs are the core of any police force and enforcing anything without their leadership is extremely difficult,” the report added. “The source also said that there are...

A Florida woman allegedly stabbed two neighbors with a steak knife after accusing them of blowing leaves onto her lawn, authorities said. Kyong Moulton, 66, told Palm Bay police that she came home on Sunday and found the leaves on her front lawn, believing that her neighbors from across the street left them there, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by FOX35 Orlando. Police said that Moulton then decided to use a leaf blower to blow the leaves back onto her neighbor’s lawn. The neighbor and his 87-year-old mother then confronted Moulton, and the three became embroiled in an argument....

A single mother faces one year in prison after she let her 14-year-old daughter babysit her siblings while she went to work at the beginning of the pandemic - an act some are calling 'reckless,' and others defend as the act of a desperate mother. Linley was reportedly engaging in online learning and did not notice that her four-year-old brother, Thaddeus, had slipped out of the house when he saw his friend outside and went to play with him in Blairsville, Georgia. Within about 10 to 15 minutes, Linley noticed he was gone and found him at his friend's house...

As our sister site Townhall reported last week, Sweden will not vaccinate their children ages 5-11. Unlike the U.S. and other European countries, Sweden is actually following the science.Sweden has decided against recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged 5-11, the Health Agency said on Thursday, arguing that the benefits did not outweigh the risks.“With the knowledge we have today, with a low risk for serious disease for kids, we don’t see any clear benefit with vaccinating them,” Health Agency official Britta Bjorkholm told a news conference.She added that the decision could be revisited if the research changed or if a...