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Canada approved medically-assisted suicide in 2016 ... Canada's Veterans Affairs office offered to assist a Paralympian and veteran to commit suicide when she sought to have a wheelchair lift installed in her home ... Christine Gauthier, a 52-year-old retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics at Rio De Janeiro, testified to lawmakers that a VA official had offered — in writing — to provide her with a medically-assisted suicide kit. The case officer remains unnamed but reportedly made similar offers to at least three other veterans ... Canada first approved medically-assisted suicide in 2016, and the parameters around allowing...

Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey use dating apps on the job—and their boss knows it. Both are public health nurses employed by Linn County Public Health in eastern Iowa. They've learned that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to sexually transmitted infections. A nationwide surge in STIs—with reported cases of gonorrhea and syphilis increasing 10% and 7%, respectively, from 2019 to 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—isn't sparing Iowa. The duo has found that the telephone call, a traditional method...

VIDEO LINKMr. Fusaro took a Covid injection for a job opportunity that required international travel at a time of tight restrictions, figuring the odds of him not getting injured were on his side. Sadly, he was wrong. After a second Pfizer shot, the man developed numerous medical conditions he had never had before, such as complete heart block, blood clots, and pericarditis, among others. He had three heart surgeries and was put on a pacemaker. Mr. Fusaro’s conditions were medically recognized as having “temporal correlation” with Covid inoculations. Eventually, Mr. Fusaro got engaged with React19, the largest American non-profit advocating...

Steve and Timpani have been through their fair share of trials since moving to Texas, but they're about to face their greatest challenge yet: returning to California. After tasting freedom in Texas, will they now be subsumed by the socialist miasma of California?

From a RON KLAIN posting on Twitter..giving the MAIN STREAM MEDIA new talking points

Rupnik scandal is new piece of Vatican mosaic on abuse casesAllegations against a Slovenian Jesuit artist have become a point of scandal in Europe, where Fr. Marko Rupnik, SJ, is accused of serially abusing Slovenian consecrated women, and questions have been raised about the Vatican’s handling of the affair. While the priest, 68, is prohibited from public ministry, the allegations raised publicly in recent days have again raised questions about public accountability and transparency in the Church’s own criminal justice system — and about a lack of consistency in the Church’s approach to the application of justice.And newly emerged information...

A man accused of victimizing local women on dating apps says "women lie." Timothy Olson called FOX6 Investigator Bryan Polcyn from the Milwaukee County Jail to tell his side of the story, but there were some questions he did not care to answer. "These women lie, and everybody believes it!" said Olson in the first of three phone calls totaling nearly 40 minutes over a two-day period. Olson placed the calls from a phone inside the Milwaukee County Jail where he is being held on charges for kidnapping a 79-year-old woman at gunpoint in Franklin.

An eight-months-pregnant Mexican woman died after a couple cut her open to rip out her unborn baby — who was miraculously rescued alive, according to officials. Rosa Isela Castro Vazquez, 20, was last seen last Wednesday after heading to meet a woman she’d chatted with online who’d promised to give her hand-me-down baby clothes, local authorities said. After Vazquez went missing, her husband alerted cops to the online chats, which showed she had planned to meet the woman at a pharmacy near her home in the eastern state of Veracruz, local reports said.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is prepared to run for president as a Republican in 2024, citing his dislike of former President Donald Trump as the sole impetus for a potential campaign.“We’ve got perhaps a dozen or more potential presidential candidates looking to 2024,” Bolton stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW. ”I think every one of them, before they declare their candidacy, should say, ‘Donald Trump was wrong. We repudiate him. He doesn’t belong in the Republican Party.’”“And, honestly, if they don’t, there’s one thing that would get me to get into the presidential race, which I looked...

Fernández, 69, was found guilty of aggravated fraud and leading a conspiracy to award public works contracts to a friend. ... Fernández has some immunity via her government roles and is expected to launch a lengthy appeals process. Prosecutors had sought a 12-year jail sentence and wanted her banned from holding public office for life. Prosecutors said Fernández had led an unlawful partnership during the time when she was president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. They said she had created a kickback scheme which steered lucrative public work contracts towards a friend of hers in return for bribes. ......

“‘Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, “You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; for the heart of this people has become dull, with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they would see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and return, and I would heal them”’” (Matthew...

President Trump addressed widespread headlines perpetuated in the mainstream media claiming that he had called for an alleged termination of the U.S. Constitution, slamming the stories as “DISINFORMATION” and “LIES.”“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution,” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS.”pic.twitter.com/M0aFllW6n3— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) December 5, 2022On Saturday, the president wrote a statement on Truth Social decrying egregious evidence of Big Tech’s alleged election...

President Trump addressed widespread headlines perpetuated in the mainstream media claiming that he had called for an alleged termination of the U.S. Constitution, slamming the stories as “DISINFORMATION” and “LIES.”“The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People that I said I wanted to ‘terminate’ the Constitution,” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of their other HOAXES & SCAMS.”pic.twitter.com/M0aFllW6n3— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) December 5, 2022On Saturday, the president wrote a statement on Truth Social decrying egregious evidence of Big Tech’s alleged election...

“In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today” Elon Musk fired deputy general counsel Jim Baker over his involvement in suppressing information important to the public. Baker was a key player in Twitter’s effort to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Musk said: “In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today Jonathan Turley wrote about Baker: “Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department,...

Prosecutors in Mexico say police found 660 pounds of fentanyl pills packed into coconuts. The coconuts were found in a truck traveling on a highway in the northern border state of Sonora. Prosecutors said the truck was detected Thursday on a road that runs along the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. According to photos of the bust, the coconut husks had been neatly split in half, and re-assembled with plastic bags of fentanyl pills inside. The road eventually leads to the border town of Sonoyta, across the border from Lukeville, Arizona.

Seventeen people were shot in Chicago this past weekend. Four of these individuals lost their lives. Tragically, this was just a normal weekend in the Windy City and many others, which are experiencing a spike in violent crime. And Black Americans are bearing the brunt of this violence. The overall rate of gun violence reached a 28-year high last year with drastic increases in murders among Black men, according to an analysis of federal data conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Some of this is not new; since 1990, rates of gun-related homicide have been highest among Black men in...

Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-Ga.) told MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” on Monday that Jesus supports abortion. MSNBC host Joy Reid asked Warnock […] “Your opponent, Herschel walker was one of the few people that was running in this cycle to stand up and support Lindsey Graham’s idea of a national ban on abortion, which is something Republicans would very much like to do. Do you think that that is going to be a fight that you’re going to have to have? Are we looking at trying to fight a national abortion ban?” […] “I’m committed to the faith, and as a pastor...

President Biden today visited Phoenix, Arizona, for semiconductor manufacturer TSMC’s announcement to increase its chip investment in the state to $40 billion. Taiwan-based TSMC will also announce its commitment to construct a second fab that will produce three-nanometer chips. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su will also be in attendance Tuesday. Cook and Su will both be sourcing significant chips from TSMC’s Arizona facility, White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said in a briefing. Deese said TSMC’s announcement furthers Biden’s economic agenda that he says goes beyond semiconductors. But it seems it’s all...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said a stopgap funding deal that would fund the government until January might be necessary as talks on a long-term spending package drag on. “We’re at a pretty significant impasse,” McConnell told reporters on Tuesday. “Time is ticking. We have not been able to agree on a top line yet, and I think it’s becoming increasingly likely that we might need to do a short-term CR into early next year,” McConnell continued, using the shorthand for continuing resolution. “We are running out of time, and that might be the only option left...

What? We just got him back! And this is after he vowed to sue the DNC when he saw one of his tweets among those that “the Biden team” had intervened to have deleted. We’ve heard people say they’re leaving Twitter before — remember when Keith Olbermann said he wasn’t going to tweet about politics anymore? — so we’re hoping this is just a temporary thing. We don’t know … is life better without social media? I’ve come to the decision that social media is a collection of echo chambers, and those with the biggest bullhorns are decimating conversations of...