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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting desperate. The soft-on-crime radical leftist has tried every name-calling and gaslighting tool available to him, but the multiple trucker convoys and citizen blockades have shown no signs of slowing down.The fascist Canadian government has even made several moves to block funds from reaching the truckers, including having TD Bank seize their funds. Nothing’s working. The protesters against the draconian vaccine mandates are standing tall, so Trudeau has escalated the situation despite the horrible optics it creates. They’ve even sent in snipers for support.What makes this so infuriating is that this is all about...

NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Friday it had withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine in India, after failing to meet the drug regulator's demand for a local safety and immunogenicity study.The decision means the vaccine will not be available for sale in the world's two most populous countries, India and China, in the near future. Both countries are running their immunisation campaigns using other products.Unlike other companies conducting small studies in India for foreign-developed vaccines, Pfizer had sought an exception citing approvals it had received elsewhere based on trials done...

Preston Settles turned to a Brooks School teammate during a basketball game last Saturday with an unusual complaint, especially for a 15-year-old boy whose athletic résumé contains entries for hockey, football, soccer, and lacrosse. “My heart feels like it’s spasming,” Settles told his friend. Moments later, the Newton teenager collapsed on the gymnasium floor as his parents rushed to his side, wondering if their son had fainted or was having some sort of seizure. “After a period of time lapsed, it was clear that neither one of those were the case,” said the boy’s mother, Lisa M. Owens, who is...

Rumble Video Jan Markell spends the hour with Dr. Mark Hitchcock. Most who are discerning the times know we are in the final stage of the Church Age. They look at three prominent signs of the times. They also spend time clarifying that the Mark of the Beast is not operating today as many are suggesting. That requires the presence of the Antichrist whom the Church will not experience

A judge is withholding the release of an audit report of Dominion voting machines in Georgia. Now the federal government and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has inserted itself into the case and is asking the judge to delay the report longer.We reported on this case previously. Per our report a week ago:A federal judge is being urged to release a report that, despite the secrecy surrounding it, appears to indicate there are potential flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment used in Georgia.“The public deserves to know the context of J. Alex Halderman’s claims and his testimony...

From whiskey distillers in the humble hills of Kentucky to winemakers in the sunny slopes of California, the demand for glass bottles has outpaced supply this year, a chain reaction triggered, in part, by the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s supply chain — already lengthy and tangled in the United States — is continuing to bear the brunt of surging consumer demand, labor shortages and overseas manufacturing delays, leading to higher transportation costs and inflation. David Ozgo, chief economist for the Distilled Spirits Council, said glass shortages are being felt throughout the sector, whether it’s tequila or vodka or whiskey. “Some...

The Satanic Temple's first-ever convention will be held in Scottsdale over the weekend, drawing both Satanists and protesters to Old Town. The convention will start at 2 p.m. Friday at the Saguaro Hotel near Indian School Road and Drinkwater Boulevard and continue through Sunday afternoon.

It is not an understatement to call this a battle of good and evil. It literally is. And on Friday, February 11, satanists from across the world will converge on Scottsdale, Arizona and for three days conduct rituals, services, celebrations, and more debauched and evil events. It’s SatanCon from February 11-13. The satanists chose to locate their conference in Scottsdale as a push back against the city for declining their request to deliver a satanic invocation before the Scottsdale City Council meeting. The organizers of the satanic conference say that they want people to think of Satan when they think...

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Shame on the New York Times! Instead of asking “Where are the fathers of these children?” the New York Times blames childhood poverty on lack of government funding. Also, shame on the New York Times for saying “they had little choice.”Here is a recent article from the New York Times about a bunch of unmarried women and their out-of-wedlock babies.The word “father” does not appear in the article.Instead, the New York Times uses the following words and phrases to explain why these women and children are living in poverty:“have few options”“waiting for subsidized housing”“18 people had been inside the four-bedroom...

In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics -- to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on the way to the Games: freestyle skier Eileen Gu and figure skater Zhu Yi chose to compete for China, while Nathan Chen, another figure skater, opted for Team USA. The young athletes have found themselves embroiled in deteriorating US-China relations, during one of the most divisive, tightly controlled...

President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by phone Saturday as US officials warn that Russia may launch an invasion of Ukraine within days. A White House official told The Post “they will be speaking Saturday morning. Russia proposed a call Monday. We counter-proposed Saturday, and they accepted.”

There are millions of people who think Al Gore invented the Internet for the sole purpose of spreading cat videos. We should not be surprised then that this led to cats developing serious internet addictions. Can’t stop watching the catjinks Which led to another sub-category of internet entertainment: videos for cats. Nine hours worth at a time for cats that have developed other serious personality disorders such as separation anxiety.All of which explains the latest Internet assisted way to waste time. The meme is titled “There’s No Cat in This Picture,” in which there is. It started out easy enough.But...

A challenge to the Missouri Second Amendment Protection Act (SAPA) by St Louis and Jackson Counties failed in Circuit court. It is being appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court. The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a direct democracy. The system was designed and built with a specific set of checks and balances to set government power against government power, to protect the citizens from the centralized abuse of government authority against them. Hillsdale College offers an excellent, free, online course on the subject.In Missouri, Second Amendment advocates have spent years developing a state law to aid in protecting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans impose new restrictions on ballot access in multiple states, President Biden has no easy options for safeguarding voting rights despite rising pressure from frustrated activists. Unlike on other issues such as immigration or environmental protection, the White House has little leverage without congressional action as the November elections creep up. “If there were some sort of easily available presidential power on this, others would have done it,” said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard Law School professor who researches election law. “There is no significant unilateral authority here.” Nine months before elections that will determine control of...

Some European countries have recently barged ahead by introducing wide-ranging Covid-19 vaccine mandates, but, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, such major vaccination obligations also exist in Latin America and Asia. Austria's new law that mandates all adults to be vaccinated against the coronavirus went into effect last week amid controversy, while neighboring Germany is mulling a similar move. Aging societies Italy, Greece and Czechia meanwhile opted for mandatory vaccines among at-risk age groups. These are defined as those over the age of 60 in Greece and the Czech Republic and those over the age of 50 in Italy. As...

The Hague (AFP) – A convoy of vehicles from across the Netherlands brought The Hague's city centre to a standstill on Saturday, protesting against coronavirus restrictions. Inspired by Canadian truckers who congested the capital Ottawa, several hundred vehicles blocked access to the Binnehof, seat of the Dutch government, according to an estimate by public television. The protesters started to arrive in the early morning in trucks, cars, tractors and even caravans, and many seemed determined to stay on even after a police warning on Twitter to move by 3:30 pm (1430 GMT). The convoy will "continue to roll until fundamental...

The Covid-19 figures for England are produced by the UK Health Security Agency (see here).Their latest data is available as a downloadable pdf here. Page 43 contains data on Covid-19 cases in England by vaccination status from 3rd Jan 22 to 30th Jan 22 and reveals that the majority of cases in January were among the triple vaccinated.The following chart shows the Covid-19 case-rates per 100,000 by vaccination status for each age group over the age of 18 in England, plus the average case rate per 100,000 for all adults in England – Concerningly the case rights have been highest...

BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) - A 35-year-old Willard man is facing a felony terrorism charge after being accused of threatening one of the coaches on his son’s basketball team. The incident happened during a high school tournament at Bolivar High School on January 27 in a match-up between a pair of junior varsity teams, Morrisville (Marion C. Early) and Branson. Bolivar police were called to the gym around 7:40 p.m. on a disturbance call after 35-year-old Bryan Scott Pellham allegedly got upset with one of the coaches for the Morrisville team that his son plays on. “From our interview, he was...

Police have intercepted hundreds of vehicles trying to enter Paris as part of a protest against France's coronavirus regulations. Authorities have deployed more than 7,000 officers over the next three days in a bid to stop the demonstrators. Some vehicles managed to arrive at the Arc de Triomphe in the city, and tear gas was fired at demonstrators on the nearby Champs-Élysées. Similar demonstrations have started to spread around the world. Austria and Belgium have banned such convoys from entering their capitals, with similar demonstrations also emerging in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The groups were inspired by the...