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Pfizer announced this week that they were asking the FDA to issue an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a “booster” COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11. (Source.)The FDA issued an EUA for the first Pfizer COVID-19 shots for this age group of children in October of 2021. (Source.)At the time, a doctor on the FDA Advisory Committee deliberating on whether or not an EUA should be given for this age group, stated that the only way to find out if the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were safe for this age group was to start injecting them...

As the federal government flooded the economy with nearly $5 trillion during the pandemic to avert recession, fraudsters have had a field day, filching tax credits, tax refunds, stimulus money and unemployment benefits in one of the biggest heists of federal and taxpayer funds in American history. “We’ve never seen fraud at this scale before. We knew there was going to be more fraud with stimulus because fraud follows the money, but I don’t think anyone expected the absolute enormity of it,” says Linda Miller, a principal at Grant Thornton who served as deputy executive director from 2020 to 2021...

MANHATTAN — Several hundred people packed the Brooklyn Bridge Friday, April 15 — Good Friday — to demonstrate their love of the Living Christ for his sacrifice more than 2,000 years ago. “I think it’s beautiful, very beautiful,” said Karen Costable of Westchester County. “It is a message of love.” A brilliant sunny sky and a light breeze greeted the marchers led by Bishop Robert Brennan. This “Way of the Cross” procession stepped off from the Cathedral-Basilica of St. James, and then stretched across the Brooklyn Bridge. It stopped at City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan and ended at St....

Russian state television declared Friday night that its conflict in Ukraine can now "safely be called World War III." "What it's escalated into can safely be called World War III – that's entirely for sure," Russia 1 television host Olga Skabeyeva said, according to a translation of Friday night’s broadcast by Britain's Metro News. "Now we're definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure, if not NATO itself. We need to recognize that."The remarks on the Russian state sponsored station come a day after Russia's flagship, the Moskva, sank in the Black Sea on Thursday. While the Russians claim the sinking was the...

ROME, Italy — Pope Francis accused the West of racism Friday, insisting migrants are “subdivided” by skin color and country of origin. “Refugees are subdivided,” the pontiff declared during a lengthy Good Friday interview on Italian television. “There’s first class, second class, skin color, [whether] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed.” “We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad,” the pope stated. As he has done on other occasions, Francis compared the current problem of migrants and refugees to the flight into Egypt of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus when King Herod was...

Pope Francis visited Benedict XVI on Wednesday, ahead of the Pope emeritus’ 95th birthday. The Holy See press office said that the pope went to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, the retired German pope’s residence in Vatican City, shortly after 6 p.m. local time on April 13. Benedict XVI will celebrate his 95th birthday on April 16, Holy Saturday. He was born in 1927, also on Holy Saturday, in Marktl, Bavaria. He led the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013, when he became the first pope in almost 600 years to resign. “After a brief and affectionate conversation, and after praying...

Another attempt to push pro-death legislation has been thwarted in Connecticut.HARTFORD, Connecticut (LifeSiteNews) – For the tenth time, a bill to legalize assisted suicide has been defeated in Connecticut. Bill SB 88 was defeated on April 12 after it had passed in the Connecticut Public Health Committee in March. One of the strongest opponents of the bill was Cathy Ludlum, who is one of the leaders of Second Thoughts Connecticut, a group dedicated to protecting the rights of disabled people in light of the push for assisted suicide. According the Second Thoughts, the most recent attempt to legalize medical suicide...

In an interview on MSNBC, Dr Fauci finally admitted that he used lockdowns to force people to get vaccinated and complimented the China’s Communist government’s lockdown tactics. On MSNBC on Wednesday, Anthony Fauci revealed the truth about lockdowns: they are a form of theatre intended to terrify people into getting vaccines.Fauci openly complimented the Communist government’s tactics when asked about the developing lockdown hellscape in China by host Andrea Mitchell.According to Fauci, “China has a number of problems, two of which are that the complete lockdown, which was their approach, a strictest lockdown you’d never be able to implement in...

Former state Rep. Vernon Jones is narrowly leading his closest competitor, trucking company owner Mike Collins, in the Republican primary race for U.S. Congress in Georgia’s Tenth District, according to an internal poll obtained by Breitbart News. The poll, conducted by Remington Research Group from April 10 to 11, found Jones four points ahead of Collins. Jones received 20 percent support compared to Collins’ 16 percent, while a plurality of respondents, 25 percent, said they were undecided. Former Tenth District Rep. Paul Broun came in third at 15 percent, followed by state Rep. Tim Barr at seven percent and a...

Russian authorities transferred Colonel-General Sergei Beseda, a senior official in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the head of the Fifth Service, from house arrest to the notorious Lefortovo Prison... His Fifth Service is the de-facto foreign intelligence arm of the FSB and the branch responsible for political subversion in Russia’s near abroad, including Ukraine... Bellingcat reported on April 11 that the FSB also fired or arrested around 150 officers from the Fifth Service over intelligence failures in Ukraine. Former Russian parliamentarian Ilya Ponomarev claimed on April 11 that Russian military sources told him that longtime Putin ally Vladislav Surkov...

Jack Posobiec ☦️ @JackPosobiec Just saw this ad about Dr Oz up in PA 6:38 PM · Apr 16, 2022

Ukrainian intelligence published audio of what it said was an intercepted call of a Russian solider allegedly telling his wife that Moscow's own forces had bombed a town in Russia in order to blame the attack on Kyiv's military. Aleksandr Bogomaz, the governor of Russia's Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, alleged on Thursday that two buildings in the town of Klimovo were damaged in an attack carried out by Ukrainian forces, Radio Free Europe reported. Russia's state-run TASS news agency cited medical workers, who said that seven people including a pregnant woman, were harmed in the assault. On Friday, the Security...

– New polls from The Tragalgar Group show Dr. Mehmet Oz leading Pennsylvania Senate candidates and Doug Mastriano the leader among Gubernatorial candidates. The poll, which was conducted after Oz was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, interviewed 1,074 likely Republican Primary voters. In the Senate race, Oz received 22.7%, followed by Dave McCormick at 19.7% and Kathy Barnette with 18.4% Carla Sands received 11.2%, Jeff Bartos received 7.7%, George Bochetto received 2.5%, and Sean Gale had 0.8%. Seventeen percent of likely Republican voters are undecided in the Senate race.

British SAS troops have been training Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv in how to use British-supplied NLAW anti-tank missile launchers, it has been reported. The training marks the first time British forces have been instructing their Ukrainian counterparts since Russia's Vladimir Putin launched his invasion on February 24. Two officers from separate battalions stationed both in and around the country's capital told The Times that British Special Forces had trained their troops on two occasions over the last fortnight. Reports of the British training came after Russian TV warned that Western involvement in the war - such as supplying weapons to...

The nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) now promises it will refrain from funding midterm elections in the fall. However, CTCL also announced on Monday its “nonpartisan collaborative” to “help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.”CTCL benefitted from approximately $350 million in donations from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, helping the 2020 Biden win in critical cities across the nation. Much of the money was sent to democrat strongholds in swing states, distributed in the form of grants. In the end, however, hundreds...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) campaigned for JD Vance, author and GOP Ohio Senate candidate.

New Low: Novus Ordo Church Lures Clients With San Remo RubbishThe Italian Bishops invited a certain Riccardo Fabbriconi - stage name: Blanco - who won the 2022 Sanremo Festival, a degenerate song competition, to perform on Easter Monday before at a "prayer vigil" with Francis on St Peter’s Square.Sixty bishops will be present. Doubtlessly, Blanco fits the level of the Council Church. In early April, the skin-centred performer dressed his bare, tattooed torso with a bra thrown at him by some nutty follower.Ventimiglia-San Remo Bishop Antonio Suetta, 59, told LaNuovaBq.it (April 14) Fabbriconi should be disinvited as he is not...

As we pass the two-year mark of when the pandemic started and assess the impact COVID-19 and mandates have had on public health, psychiatrist and author of “United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis” Dr. Mark McDonald says the “pandemic of fear” has been far more significant then COVID-19 itself. “I know that the pandemic of fear has been singularly far more important than any core medical viral crisis that we’ve been informed about from the very, very beginning,” McDonald told host of American Thought Leaders Jan Jekielek during a recent interview. “If you...

John 20:1-10 (KJV) 1The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. 3Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. 4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did out run Peter, and came first to...

For every 28 person living with HIV screened for lung cancer, one person was diagnosed with the malignancy in a small single-center study published in PLoS One. Screening did not lead to “overdiagnosis” and excess surgery. People living with HIV are more likely to smoke, and studies suggest that they have a higher rate of lung cancer compared with the general public. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual lung cancer screening for people ages 50 to 80 who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history (the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years).