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A professional bodybuilder who trusted the Covid vaccine enough to challenge anti-vax conspiracists to use him as a case study suddenly died last week.Author and veteran competitive bodybuilder Doug Brignole, 62, reportedly passed away last Thursday, with not much else known other than the fact he was extremely fit and healthy prior to his death and was evidently preparing to compete in the 2022 AU Mr. Universe competition in Las Vegas this week. Following his untimely passing, netizens discovered Brignole was gung-ho about the Covid vaccine, so much so that at one point he encouraged anti-vaxxers to use him as...

The IRS is a climate agency now. The massive climate and energy law enacted by Democrats in August puts the IRS at the forefront of the effort to incentivize renewable energy across the economy. Of the nearly $370 billion of climate spending in the new law, about $270 billion will be delivered through tax incentives for electric vehicles, energy-efficient buildings, solar power and other “clean” energy technologies. “The IRS is at the center of it because the way that you get this cash that the federal government has basically earmarked for all these things is through tax credits and benefits...

And so I came into office almost a year after it happened. First week in office, we removed the sheriff of this county. We then convened a special grand jury that investigated failures not just here but other parts of the country … [and] other parts of the state about different types of school security, and that led to this report, where we then removed the number of the school board members who were derelict. “And that’s good, but then you’re sitting there last week and you see, four and a half years after this happen, they do that the...

Ukraine's Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate announced a reward of $100,000 on Saturday for the capture of Igor "Strelkov" Girkin. Girkin is a former Russian FSB agent and a key figure in Russia’s initial occupation of Ukraine in 2014, when he led Kremlin-backed separatists to seize Slovyansk, in the Donetsk Oblast. A former Russian intelligence officer who once boasted he had “pulled the trigger of war” in Ukraine, Girkin served as the leader of the Kremlin’s forces in Slovyansk in the first months of the 2014 conflict. Going by the pseudonym Igor Strelkov (which means “shooter” in Russian). Girkin was...

Two Tibetans have died from a pneumonic plague spread by mice and other rodents in a southern county of Tibet, with Chinese authorities now ordering county residents to stay at home, RFA has learned. The two victims, who lived in Lhoka city in Lhoka (in Chinese, Shannan) prefecture’s Tsona (Cuona) county, both died in September, a source living in the region told RFA, adding that neither has been publicly identified. “Moreover, people are not allowed to discuss it,” the source said, requesting anonymity in order to speak freely. “But we have learned that the two individuals had been helping someone...

Joe Biden said the other day that “it’s always been the case” that gas in LA is $7 per gallon. The average gas price in LA has never been $7 and was $3.15 when Trump left office. VIDEO AT LINK.............. AAA gas prices nationwide… https://gasprices.aaa.com/ Trump fans greet Biden in Orange County… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-fans-greet-biden-in-orange-county/

A former Russian president and key ally to President Vladimir Putin warned Israel against sending weapons to Ukraine.Dmitry Medvedev, currently deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, on Monday said that Israel would destroy its relations with Russia if it sent weapons to Ukraine....On Sunday, an Israeli minister called for Jerusalem to send military aid to Ukraine, though there has been no official statement from Israel about sending military aid.

On Oct. 3, 2022, Franklin Graham wrote, “To say that much is at stake (in the Nov. 8, 2022, election) is a gross understatement. It isn’t just control of Congress; it may be our last chance to stop the immoral and ungodly policies that have brought our great nation to the moral brink of disaster.” He asked, “What happens to a nation that continues in its wicked ways with no repentance?” He responded, “Israel and Judah both went into captivity and exile.” Two days later, on Oct. 5, 2022, it was reported that Tony Perkins said in an interview with...

Two robbery suspects are dead and two more are on the run after they attempted a smash and grab robbery at a jewelry booth at the Orlando Magic Mall indoor flea market. According to witnesses, Orlando police officers swarmed the Magic Mall on West Colonial Drive just before noon on Friday. OPD say’s four men attempted to rob a jewelry booth inside the mall. Orlando Police say at least one of the suspects was armed. The booth owner wasn’t having any of it and had something else in mind for the suspects. He pulled out a pistol and started blasting....

President Joe Biden appeared to forget which century he was in during a campaign speech in Portland over the weekend, referring to life in 1922. “Look, in 1922 the price for one blood pressure drug that millions of Medicare patients — beneficiaries — rely on went up one — went up by 500 percent,” he said without correcting himself. Biden spoke on Saturday during a campaign event in Portland, Oregon, about lowering the costs of prescription drugs for seniors.

Top House Democrats Maxine Waters and James Clyburn have continued to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to their family members ahead of the November midterm elections. The re-election campaign for Waters, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairwoman, paid a total of $16,000 to the congresswoman's daughter in four separate payments in July and September of this year. Karen Waters, who has been organizing slate-mailing operations to bolster her mother's re-election since 2003, and her company, Progressive Connections, have received more than $1.2 million from Waters’ campaign over the past nearly two decades. *** Waters,...

REPUBLICANS ARE WINNING THE GENERIC CONGRESSIONAL BALLOT 53% TO 47% AMONG LIKELY VOTERS 55% OF AMERICANS BLAME BIDEN FOR INFLATION, INCLUDING 42% OF DEMOCRATS BIDEN'S DEBT RELIEF AND MARIJUANA PARDONS ARE POPULAR BUT DON'T MOVE THE NEEDLE ELECTORALLY FOR DEMOCRATS /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the October Harvard-CAPS Harris Poll, a monthly collaboration between the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS) and the Harris Poll and HarrisX. Republicans are connecting with voters on their key issues of inflation, crime, and immigration, while Americans see Democrats as mostly focused on January 6, women's rights,...

MALVERN, Pa.—Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz, M.D., held a rally that attracted hundreds of supporters on Saturday morning, Oct. 15, in Malvern, Chester County, a suburb of the northwest of Philadelphia. He spoke out against the Democrat Party and the Democrat Senate nominee, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, on the issues of economy, crime, and fentanyl. Joined by Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel, Republican Party Chairman of Pennsylvania Lawrence Tabas, and Republican U.S. House candidate for Pennsylvania Guy Ciarrocchi, Oz encouraged his supporters to walk around, knock on doors, and ask people one question: “Are we headed in the right...

Incidents of electric vehicles catching on fire after hurricanes are becoming common according to reports The storm surges and flooding from Hurricane Ian in Florida are reportedly again exposing the vulnerability of electric vehicle catching fire after being submerged in saltwater. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently wrote in a letter to Jimmy Patronis, the chief financial officer of Florida Department of Financial Services, that such incidents are not uncommon, according to the Epoch Times. "We are tracking Florida EV fires through news reports, fire department social media sites, and other sources, and we can confirm your experience in...

A massive sunfish found floating in the Azores sets a new weight record. A massive, pale sunfish is lifted for weighing by a yellow forklift. This jumbo sunfish weighed in at around 3 tons. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Talk about an absolute unit. A team of researchers released a study this week on what they're calling "the heaviest bony fish in the world," a giant sunfish found dead and floating in the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean in late 2021. Bony fish, as the description suggests, have skeletons made of bone, in contrast to ocean dwellers with skeletons mainly...

Newsweek wasted column space treating a claim that nuclear war could “solve” climate change as serious enough to warrant a fact-check, and ended up legitimizing the idea to an extent. Yes, really. The insane article, headlined “Fact Check: Would Nuclear War 'Solve' Climate Change,” said that while it was “false” to say that a nuclear war would “solve” the climate crisis, “it is true that even a small nuclear war could have a global cooling effect.” The fact-check continued: “There is ample evidence to suggest that a nuclear war would have a temporary global cooling effect (at least on land),...

MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Monday on “Morning Joe” that he believed it was an “insult” the Republican Party chose Herschel Walker as their nominee in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race because he is black. Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “You believe that Walker’s in this position as the Republican nominee for the Senate in Georgia because he is a football star, sure, buts also because he is a black man. Tell us more as to why how deeply cynical that is and how you read Georgia, a state you know really well. What does it say about Georgia right now that...

Shocking audio obtained by The Maine Wire reveals a Maine public school teacher subjecting a student to a racially charged political rant and telling the middle schooler his conservative parents only support former President Donald Trump because they are uneducated. The audio, which was recorded in April, features the voice of Ann Cook, a resource room instructor for Gray-New Gloucester Middle School. It was recorded in secret by a middle school student who was concerned with some of the conversations he had had with Cook, including conversations about her and other students’ sexuality. In the audio, the teacher tells the...

Luke 12:13-21 Friends, today in our Gospel, Jesus tells of a rich man who has been so successful that he doesn’t have space enough to store his harvest. So he tears down his barns and builds bigger ones. But that very night, he dies—and all of it comes to naught. “Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.”No matter how good, how beautiful a state of affairs is here below, it is destined to pass into nonbeing. That sunset that I enjoyed last night—that radiantly beautiful...

In 2020, six men were arrested for plotting to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. Were they a grave threat to democracy, a bunch of inept misfits—or something else entirely?