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Under the First Amendment, the federal government may not police private speech nor pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. But that is precisely what the government has done—and is still doing—on a massive scale not previously divulged. Multiple agencies’ communications demonstrate that the federal government has exerted tremendous pressure on social-media companies—pressure to which companies have repeatedly bowed.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on Thursday recommended updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters for people 12 and older, helping clear the way for a fall campaign for the shots. Once CDC Director Rochelle Walensky gives the final sign off, which is expected soon, the vaccinations can begin.

[H/T Countrecount]This video is approved by Doctors Pierre Kory and Paul Marik and many others. The video is NOT approved by the FDA, the CDC, the NIH, CNN, or the White House. Producer: Mikki Willis, Length: 15 min.Steve Kirsch5 hr agoIvermectin: The Truth is an amazing film, less than 15 minutes long! I highly recommend this film. Watch it and share it.Pierre Kory, Paul Marik, Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, Chris Martenson, Richard Bartlett, and Mike Yeadon all appear. My name appears briefly at 11:45 in the video. Still trying to get that debate with the mainstream “experts.” The Ivermectin film...

Republicans blame Democrats, union bosses and ignoring 'actual science' for the fastest drop in nine-year-olds' learning in 50 years - as more kids REPEAT grades as DC schools ban unvaccinated students Math scores among third grade students dropped five points from 2020 to 2022 and reading scores dropped seven Reading scores saw their largest drop in three decades and math scores fell for the first time since records began 'Actual science didn't support school closures. Democrats were too busy following political science to care,' said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa.

First son Hunter Biden helped to arrange a dinner at the Chinese Embassy in Washington for a client of his now-defunct investment company — by working with a top Beijing diplomatic official he met at a January 2011 luncheon hosted by his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to correspondence obtained by The Post and Fox News Digital. Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his former business associate at Rosemont Seneca Partners, assisted Marvin Lang — the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland — in setting up the dinner with Deng Hongbo, the embassy’s deputy chief of mission, on April 28,...

A poll shows Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) leading their GOP opponents within the survey’s margin of error — a statistical tie — and losing Hispanic voter support. Cortez Masto is leading Attorney General Adam Laxalt by 44 percent to 40 percent in the Nevada U.S. Senate race, and Sisolak is leading Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo 41 percent to 38 percent, the AARP-commissioned poll found. The poll is the latest in a string of surveys reflecting the extremely close nature of the senate and gubernatorial races in swing state Nevada.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked several times at Thursday’s daily press briefing whether the pro-life movement should be considered “extremist” or “semi-fascist” — and she did not deny that President Joe Biden views it as such. Jean-Pierre fielded questions ahead of Biden’s prime time address about the “attack on our democracy,” after Biden referred earlier to support for Donald Trump as “semi-fascism” and the White House backed his attacks on “MAGA Republicans” as “extremists.”

A 27-year-old man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been scheduled to go on trial in October. The case generated national controversy when the victim traveled to Indiana to secure an abortion in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturning Roe v. Wade.

President Joe Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke for the President Joe Biden White House which believes you must agree with the majority, otherwise you are an extremist, during the White House press briefing on 9/1/2022

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday doubled down on claims that Trump supporters are an “extreme” threat to the United States.Karine Jean-Pierre’s comments on Thursday were actually more shocking.The White House Press Secretary said if you don’t agree with the majority, you are an extremist.

On May 4, 2022, a corpse was discovered at about 7 a.m in Lake County, Florida. Ernie Wayne Wilburn was the man who had died. He had been shot with a .22 caliber air rifle. From Wesh.com:Detectives identified the man as 44-year-old Ernie Wayne Wilburn. Lake deputies say there were witnesses inside the home but they could not explain what happened to Wilburn.Detectives deemed Wilburn’s death suspicious.The police believed the death suspicious. An autopsy was done. The proximate cause of death was a puncture to the left lung through the rib cage.From clickorlando.com: When deputies arrived at the house to...

Many respiratory infections add significant stress to cells and organs, which can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which can cause death. "Novel therapeutic strategies to address ARDS, instead of fighting the infectious agent, could elicit the tolerance of the host organism towards the inflammatory challenge by boosting its natural adaptive stress responses," says Professor Johan Auwerx. Adrienne Mottis and her colleagues have shown that one such strategy can exploit a biological phenomenon known as "mitohormesis". Mitohormesis describes the fact that a mild stress to a cell's mitochondria can induce a series of responses that actually increase the cell's...

Michael Burry, the hedge fund investor made famous in the 2015 film “The Big Short,” suggested Wednesday that a long-feared stock market crash is already underway. Burry, who predicted more than a year ago that stocks were headed for “the mother of all crashes,” delivered his latest warning alongside a graph showing the S&P 500’s sharp decline since hitting an all-time peak in January. “And yet I keep getting asked ‘wen crash?’” Burry said in a now-deleted tweet captured by the @BurryArchive Twitter account.

Dietary niacin intake is associated with migraine among U.S. adults, with an L-shaped curve and an inflection point of about 21.0 mg/day, according to a study. Huanxian Liu, M.D. and colleagues examined the association between dietary niacin and migraine using cross-sectional data from people aged older than 20 years who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2004. Data were included for 10,246 participants, of whom 20.1 percent experienced migraines. The researchers found that the adjusted odds ratio values for dietary niacin intake and migraine were 0.83, 0.74, and 0.72 in quartiles (Q) 2 (12.4...

When a renovation contractor showed up at his doorstep requesting for payment on Wednesday (Aug 31) morning, this flat owner not only locked the door but took a rather drastic step of climbing out of his window and sitting on the ledge – some 11 floors above the ground. During a three-hour stand-off that frightened and confused residents living around Block 465A at Yishun Avenue 6, the man was spotted drinking from a bottle of alcohol with his feet dangling precariously on the window of his 11th floor unit. The man, dressed in only a pair of shorts, was also...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Mass of the Ages’ trilogy aims to show Francis who traditional Catholics really areOn today's episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, 'Mass of the Ages' director Cameron O'Hearn discusses what's coming in the third and final episode, as well as what motivated him to produce the series. (LifeSiteNews) — Cameron O’Hearn, the director of the Mass of the Ages trilogy, was kind enough to join me on today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show. The timing of Mass of the Ages could not have been better, given the huge controversy surrounding the Latin Mass since Pope Francis asked...

A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her husband was jailed for corruption. The couple have been the focus of multiple graft investigations since Najib's surprise election defeat in 2018, when voters' anger over a separate, multi-billion dollar corruption scandal ended his nine years in power. Advertisement · Scroll to continue A flamboyant figure by Najib's side, Rosmah was widely scorned in Malaysia for her extravagant lifestyle and penchant for Hermes Birkin bags,...

The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus. The academy in New London, Connecticut, confirmed the disenrollments Tuesday, The Day newspaper reported. A lawyer for several of the cadets said they were told on Aug. 18 that they had to leave campus by 4 p.m. the next day. "They were escorted to the gate like they were criminals or something," the lawyer, Michael Rose, told the newspaper. The cadets’ names have not been released. Rose...

China has been simulating attacks on US Navy ships and is aiming to prevent foreign forces from coming to Taiwan's aid in the event of a war, Taiwan's defence ministry said in a strongly worded report raising the alarm on Beijing's military designs. Tensions between Taiwan and China have soared following a visit to Taipei last month by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which infuriated Beijing, which viewed it as an interference in its affairs. China, which claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own despite the strong objections of the Taipei government, carried out war games after Pelosi's trip and is...