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President Biden said on Friday that he would extend the national emergency that was first declared in March 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The additional authority had been set to expire on March 1. The decision, contained in a letter from Mr. Biden to Congress that the White House made public, comes as a wave of coronavirus cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant recedes in the United States, and many states and localities ease pandemic restrictions. But the pandemic is taking a continuing toll on the country. As of Friday, more than 75,000 Americans were hospitalized...

(Wellington, New Zealand Is 18 Hours Ahead Of The Eastern US Its Now Tuesday There) "The police is brutally escalating the whole situation" Telegram Message From Freedom Camp In Wellington, New Zealand Tuesday 2/22/2022 Its Tuesday right now in New Zealand and Tuesday morning police assaulted the Freedom Convoy protest opposing COVID mandates now called a Freedom Camp. The police formed up in lines and moved concrete barriers deeper into the protest camp area near New Zealand's Parliament. Incidents of protesters resisting police claimed by the police and mainstream media causing the situation to be described as an "outbreak of...

The US embassy in Moscow has warned American nationals about alleged threats of terror attacks in public places in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in areas near the Russian-Ukrainian border. ... However, it cited no concrete media source to back its warning. ... It also advised to "have evacuation plans that do not rely on U.S. government assistance.".

The Virus that Dare not Speak Its NameThe most glaringly obvious and the single most unheard thing about the mRNA products (but something that explains virtually all the adverse events, both in kind, degree, and combination) is that each of those products is, at the very least, the functional equivalent of a virus, with a few notable but still very serious distinctions. I came to this conclusion by considering the nature of the therapeutic vehicles they are using. I had been reading about most of these at least since starting grad school over 25 years ago. I remember talking with...

Democratic political operative and former Fox News host Bob Beckel has died at age 73, his longtime friend and fellow columnist Cal Thomas confirmed Monday evening. His cause of death was not specified. Beckel famously ran Walter Mondale’s failed 1984 presidential campaign and later became a Fox News political analyst, often serving as a token Democratic voice on the network’s panels. In 2011, he became the curmudgeonly co-host of the network’s midday talk show, The Five, until he was unceremoniously kicked to the curb following his recovery from back surgery, with Fox declaring in a statement that the show would...

Picture it: A car-free trip to Santa Cruz, for an attractive fare, on a train that took you to the beach in the morning, back home that night, and showed you some great scenery along the way. That describes the Sun Tan Special, operated by the Southern Pacific railroad between San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Cruz on summer weekends and holidays for most of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. It was more than just a conveyance. “[It’s] a happy train, filled with people in a vacation mood,” says a 1940s Southern Pacific flyer. “It gives you six hours on...

According to new statistics released on Friday, homicide, rape and burglary are all up in liberal-leaning Atlanta in 2022. Homicides are up 43% so far this year compared with the same period in 2021, according to the Atlanta Police Department, and are on track to beat last year's 30-year high of 158 killings. There have been 20 homicides in Georgia's capital city thus far, compared with 14 at the same point last year. With 37 reported so far this year, compared with 11 at the same time in 2021, rapes are up 236%, police said.

It has not been a good few months from the crypto world. After rampaging higher during the middle of last year, cryptocurrencies have broadly speaking dropped around 40-50% since their November highs, and have become more and more correlated with the traditional financial system as long-duration, hyper-growth companies have seen their share prices decimated by the realization that 'this time is serious' from The Fed on their policy-tightening plans.And while 98-year-old curmudgeons are busily saying cryptos are "like some venereal disease ... I just regard it as beneath contempt," the rest of the tech world is beavering away envisioning -...

The big wildcard in today's dramatic escalation in tensions over east Ukraine, is how and when Beijing will react to Putin's announcement recognizing the Donbass region as independent and immediately deploying "peacekeeping" forces to Donetsk and Lugansk. A hint as to what may be coming, came earlier on Monday when China said it would impose new sanctions on U.S. defense contractors Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin due to their arms sales to Taiwan, stepping up a feud with Washington over security and Beijing’s strategic ambitions.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced the move at a daily press briefing, citing a newly...

Anti-Trumpers like Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) will be attending their own “counterprogramming” session to compete with the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this coming weekend. Dubbed the “Principles First Summit,” the meeting of the anti-Trump minds will go from February 26 to February 27 and plans to build on the success of the summit from 2020.

The choice in North Dakota’s U.S. Senate race, according to one of the candidates, is a simple binary: a bowl of oatmeal, or an egg-avocado breakfast platter. That metaphor was recently posted on Facebook, in meme form, by Rick Becker, a Republican state lawmaker who just launched a primary campaign to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. John Hoeven. Neither of their names are referenced. But the suggestion is clear: Becker—a fire-breathing MAGA conservative popular with the state’s ultra-right—is meant to be the exciting, appetizing choice. And Hoeven—a reserved two-term senator who is as likely to appear on an agriculture policy newscast...

Virginia school principals will have to once again report certain misdemeanors to law enforcement after Democrats in the state Senate voted with Republicans to pass one of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s legislative priorities. The bill from Del. Scott Wyatt (R-Hanover) that lawmakers passed Monday was one of many backed by Youngkin that proposed to roll back a law giving principals and superintendents discretion on reporting some misdemeanors that occur on school grounds. Under the current law, administrators have to report felonies but have discretion when referring students to law enforcement for conduct that could be a misdemeanor in Virginia. These include...

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Madonna took to Instagram on Monday with a series of shots with her son David Banda, as well of pics from an art event featuring work from her son Rocco Ritchie. 'Today isn't Monday……..It's Son Day!!!' Madonna, 63, said in the caption of the post to more than 17.6 million followers, with a pair of sun emojis. 'David at his curtain call And Art by Rhed!' The Material Girl donned a long black coat over a white lace dress, accessorizing with multiple necklaces, bracelets and heart-shaped black sunglasses, topping things off with a textured cap over her trademark blonde locks....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has returned 820,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by Poland because they were manufactured in the United States, state TV reported Monday. TV quoted Mohammad Hashemi, an official in the country’s Health Ministry, as saying that Poland donated about a million doses of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran. “But when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found out that 820,000 doses of them which were imported from Poland were from the United States,” he said. Hashemi said “after coordination with the Polish ambassador to Iran, it was decided that the vaccines would be returned.”...

An underground nuclear bunker that was the site of a missile launch facility during the Cold War is up for sale in Kansas for $380,000 The property, located in Abilene, Kansas, is the site of a decommissioned Atlas-F intercontinental ballistic missile silo complex. Built in 1961 on 11 acres of land, it includes a Quonset hut with water and electricity, a one-building room for storage The underground complex spreads over two inhabitable levels, which were once used as a a launch control center and living quarts for crew during the Cold war. In its current state, the complex is hardly...

For many in the global North, retirement is a time to wave goodbye to workday stresses and discover an idyllic spot where you can take things easy. For some, it's a deckchair, for other it's a whole other country. For the lucky latter, the only question is…where to live? Everyone has their own take on what makes the perfect retirement location, but International Living’s 2022 Global Retirement Index may make it easier to find it. The annual index features a list of global retirement hotspots, compiled using personal experiences of expats in each location, combined with factors like cost of...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Picatinny Arsenal, New JerseyThe Picatinny Arsenal is an American military research and manufacturing facility located on 6,400 acres of land in Jefferson and Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, encompassing Picatinny Lake and Lake Denmark. The Arsenal is the headquarters of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center. It is known for developing the Picatinny rail, as well as being the Army's center of expertise for small arms cartridge ammunition.Project Manager Soldier Lethality ensures that Soldiers on the battlefield have overmatch capabilities in individual and crew served weapons....

Ah, Alaska, America's 49th state and the Last Frontier. The home of salmon, gold, oil, and many kinds of wildlife. And a potential place of origin for World War III. In 1867, the Russian Tsar sold the territory of Russian America to the United States. The territory wasn't doing the Tsar much good, never really turning a profit, and proving to be an unnecessary thorn in the Empire's already strained relationship with the UK (which owned Canada), so the Russian government was open to any reasonable opportunity to offload it. Russia and the US being rather buddy-buddy in the 1850s...

Kyle Rittenhouse to launch "Media Accountability Project" to conduct research and sue media that lie about people. He made the announcement on Tucker Carlson Tonight. He says he's looking at 'quite a few' people to sue himself, including Whoopi Goldberg.