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The fact-checking industry may be the most laughable form of journalism ever. However, content creators should not ignore its influence. Once something is fact-checked as false, it may limit the distribution of the information on social media and web searches. Satire site Babylon Bee has fallen victim to ridiculous fact-checks from the left-leaning site Snopes. As noted by PJ Media at the time: This is significant because one satire article Snopes marked as “false” resulted in Facebook threatening the Bee with limitations and demonetization. Facebook rightly apologized, admitting that satire is not the same as fake news, but the incident...

The U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database was updated this past Friday, February 11, 2022, and it is now reporting that there have been 1,103,893 cases of injuries and deaths following COVID-19 vaccines since December of 2020, when the FDA issued emergency use authorizations for the COVID-19 vaccines. (Source.)By way of contrast, there were 918,856 cases of injuries and deaths following all FDA-approved vaccines for the previous 30+ years, from 1990 through November of 2020. (Source.)So there have been more injuries and deaths recorded in VAERS during the past 14 months following COVID-19 vaccines, than there were...

'The McGowan Govt needs to explain how this type of state action is at all proportionate or necessary,' said Libby Mettam, deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Western Australia.PERTH, Australia (LifeSiteNews) – Australian police interrupted a Catholic Mass on Thursday after reportedly receiving a tip that a number of churchgoers were not wearing masks. “On Thursday evening, police responded to a report from a member of the public of people not wearing masks inside a church in Mount Hawthorn,” Western Australian (WA) Police told media outlet The West Australian. A photograph of the incident shows a police officer checking...

About 830 a.m., police were called to Los Angeles International Airport’s Terminal 7 due to reports of domestic violence on an airplane, according to police Lt. Karla Rodriguez. The plane, which was headed to Houston, had to return to the gate “due to a verbal and physical altercation between a male suspect and a female victim,” Rodriguez said. The suspect, football star Adrian Peterson, was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence injury to a spouse, Rodriguez said. Peterson was released on $50,000 bail Sunday afternoon, according to jail records.

[Catholic Caucus] Another embarrassing letter from a bishop about “Traditionis custodes”… or rather about “Custodies Traditiones”!ShareUPDATE 12 Feb:I’ve bene told that the Bishop of Hamilton threw out 3 seminarians for ATTENDING a TLM. They have moved to another diocese.UPDATE 11 Feb:This came in from a reliable reader. It is highly anecdotal but there is clearly something to it. I share it out of fairness to the Bishop.Interestingly, “Father” Lobsinger, offered the Vetus Ordo in the parish church and was part of a regular rotation of priests for the EF community in Kitchener. He, as bishop, has offered the Vetus Ordo...

Dr. Hooper delivers a very interesting lecture discussing the origins of the universe, and where it might be going according to the latest models of physics. Dr. Hooper's "hook" comes in minute 8. He says that an alternative view of universal expansion is that space is shrinking. It couches universal expansion in a way I’ve never considered, that alternatively, universal expansion can be stated as universal shrinkage. For decades cosmologists have reported that, from redshift observations, the universe is expanding at a fixed rate, the Hubble constant. Recently astronomers took more accurate measures of how fast distant objects are receding,...

OTTAWA — Canadian law enforcement officials said Sunday that they were preparing to reopen a major international bridge which had been blockaded by protesters for almost a week, raising hopes for industries, especially auto manufacturing, slowed to a near standstill by the unrest. But at the footstep of Parliament some 500 miles to the northeast, they appeared powerless to quell the near-chaos. As officials announced that the Ambassador Bridge, which ties Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, had been reclaimed after a series of arrests in the morning, some hailed it as victory for a government deeply shaken by the intransigence of...

During the montage of celebrities at the Super Bowl, few, if any, were wearing masks even though masks are required at mega-events in Los Angeles.The montage showed celebrities like Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Andy Garcia, and others partying it up free of face diapers:Here’s the video of every celebrity without a mask during the Super Bowl. But every kid in California will have to be wearing them tomorrow in school. They must all be holding their breaths the entire game. pic.twitter.com/Dc9yVd7RPf— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 14, 2022Last week, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he will end the indoor mask...

President Joe Biden called out the NFL ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday for its lack of black coaches, saying having diverse leaders in the league is a requirement of 'generic decency.'

The Intercept mapped climate risks for 6,500 detention facilities. In some already miserable places, the suffering is set to intensify.

Rep. John Curtis (R-UT) says a plan that gives amnesty to illegal aliens and expands pipelines for foreign visa workers will be a boost for business. Last week, as Breitbart News reported, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and six House Republicans introduced “The Dignity Act” to provide green cards to the nation’s 11 to 22 million while expanding visa programs to more readily outsource American jobs. Curtis is co-sponsoring the bill alongside Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Peter Meijer (R-MI). The bill is backed by the United States Chamber of Commerce and...

“We’re not free anymore,” Ryan, a truck driver from Manitoba with the Freedom Convoy, told Breitbart News on Thursday in Ottawa, ON. He drove into the nation’s capital city with his brother, who is also a trucker, with whom he alternates custody of the truck. “I am here to support freedom in this country,” he said when asked for his motivations in joining the demonstration. “Like many of us, our ancestors have come from all over the place, but all of my ancestors came from Prussia, Ukraine, and my grandpa came over here in 1925 to escape persecution. They were...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Desmond T. Doss Info from here and here. Desmond T. Doss (February 7, 1919–March 23, 2006) was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored (the others are Thomas W. Bennett and Joseph G. LaPointe, Jr.). He was a Corporal (Private First Class at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army...

In 1966 I began attending USC, and my dorm was a half-mile walk from the Coliseum. I bought a season-ticket: $2.50 per game times 7 games, or $17.50 per year. I had the center seat ten rows up in the east end zone, and I watched Roman Gabriel and Dick Bass and Jack Snow and the Fearsome Foursome lose to the Vikings every year.After a couple of years they raised prices on me: 4 bucks a game plus 3 preseason games, so now it was $40 a year. Instead, I got a job ushering, and now they paid me $6...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque police say a suspect is in custody after several people were stabbed at multiple locations in the Southeast part of the city Sunday. The scene is near Central and Wyoming. “Officers are investigating 7 possible scenes, stretching from Downtown to Central and Wyoming, with reports of 11 stabbing victims,” the department said in a statement. “All victims are in stable condition. The lone suspect is in custody.”

Today in “The Adventures of Florida Man,” one intelectually-challenged individual thought he had pulled off a major heist but then squandered it all away for a lack of due diligence and patience. The criminal stole rare coins and then cashed them in for a fraction of their actual worth. Peak Florida man right here. Shane Anthony Mele of Riviera Beach, Florida, met Michael Johnson a few years ago through mutual friends. The 40-year-old Mele was down on his luck after his wallet was allegedly stolen and didn’t have a place to stay. Back in October, Johnson agreed to let Mele...

Introduction: "In late Dec 2019, I predicted almost everything that has happened so far with COVID-19, which put me at odds with most of my physician colleagues. I was able to do so because I was familiar with history and saw many the signs our past mistakes would repeat themselves (for example, The Real Anthony Fauci details how the HIV epidemic was a blueprint for the management of COVID). What is occurring now in Canada and other places is almost identical to what happened with the smallpox vaccination campaigns over a century ago, and I believe it is critical we...

A 32-year-old man from France living in Tokyo was admitted to the National Center for Global Health and Medicine after experiencing shortness of breath and fever. He had received the first dose of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech, https://www.pfizer.comExternal Link) vaccine 5 days before admission. After vaccination, he experienced a fever, systemic joint pain, nausea, and vomiting. The patient sought care because of these persistent symptoms. At admission, the patient was experiencing dyspnea as well as chest and back pain that worsened during inhalation. The patient was obese (body mass index 42.1 kg/m2). He had no history of smoking, illegal drug use,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday for blaming Democrats’ policies for skyrocketing inflation rates. Host George Stephanopoulos noted that inflation, which is at its highest levels in 40 years, is costing the average American family approximately $275 a month. Stephanopoulos then played a clip of Manchin saying: This is not a time to be throwing more fuel on the fire. We have an inflate — we have inflation and we have, basically, an economy that’s on fire. You don’t throw more fuel on the fire that is...

Almost 20,000 2017-18 models are being recalled following several fires. Chrysler's parent company, Stellantis, is recalling 19,808 Pacifica Hybrid minivans due to a potential fire risk. Only 2017-18 models are affected, with the recall coming after an internal investigation found 12 fires occurred with Pacifica Hybrids in those model years. All of those 12 fires happened when the vehicles were parked and turned off, with 8 of them charging as well. Fortunately Stellantis is not aware of any injuries or accidents as a result of the fires, but they are urging all owners not to charge their Pacificas and to...