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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) petition for a grand jury investigation into COVID-19 vaccines, in which he decries the ongoing vaccine campaign as “propaganda” by the Biden administration, is drawing fierce criticism from health experts. Physicians and public health experts say his request betrays decades of established procedure designed to ensure the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, and only serves to stoke further immunization fears. DeSantis’s petition for a grand jury investigation was approved by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday, clearing the way for what his office described as a probe into “wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to...

Let this serve as a warning to the pro-abortion conservatives: compromising on innocent life opens Pandora’s Box and unleashes murder. From a piece published at The National Post just five days ago and authored by Tristin Hopper:Just as Ottawa publicly acknowledges that its assisted suicide regime might have gone too far, critics have highlighted the existence of a little-known medical assistance in dying children’s activity book that was funded by the Canadian government.We’ve seen dystopian stories of who exactly Trudeau’s government has targeted with their euthanasia program — those suffering from hearing loss, the poor, etc. — but now, children...

Saint Louis University’s service center encourages students to oppose common sense limits on pornographic, pro-homosexual books in libraries.ST. LOUIS, Missouri (LifeSiteNews) — An office within Jesuit Catholic Saint Louis University (SLU) took a stance against a proposed state rule that would help protect students from pornographic LGBT propaganda. The Center for Social Action at SLU is supposed to help connect students to volunteer opportunities – such as supporting kids who lost their parents or helping at a local zoo event. But it’s also decided to embrace the LGBT agenda and push back against limits on what kids can read in...

It turns out Gen Zers have a common secret. They’re not as comfortable with new technology as older generations would typically presume. Sure, they may have grown up with instant access to information and an affinity for digital devices that older generations had to learn. But that has led to a widespread presumption that Gen Zers are therefore innately good with tech. Now, new research is showing that may not be the case at all when it comes to workplace tech. In fact, this presumption from older generations is leading a larger number of young professionals to experience “tech shame,”...

Hospital ‘does not advocate for termination, that is just the lived experience’, says Prof Fergal MaloneAbout 95 per cent of parents whose babies are diagnosed with Down syndrome at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin choose to have an abortion, according to the master of the hospital. Prof Fergal Malone says the Rotunda strives to be non-directive in its counselling to affected parents. “The 95 per cent who choose to travel do reach that decision themselves. We very much do not advocate for termination,” he said. “The reality is that the vast majority choose to terminate. I don’t have a view...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Laughlin Air Force Base, TexasLaughlin Air Force Base is a facility of the United States Air Force located east of Del Rio, Texas. Laughlin AFB, the largest pilot training base in the US Air Force, is home to the 47th Flying Training Wing of the Air Education and Training Command and the 96th Flying Training Squadron of the Air Force Reserve Command. On weekdays, the airfield sees more takeoffs and landings than any other airport in the country.The 47th Flying Training Wing has been active at Laughlin Air Force Base since September 1,...

(WSVN) - A Florida man tapped into the Christmas spirit by showing his appreciation to essential workers. Patrick Rhodes is a giver of the extraordinary kind. “I have two jobs, and I’m able to squeeze in time to give back,” said Rhodes. “I think we can all set aside an hour or so to reach back to our community.” Two years ago, when the pandemic hit, Rhodes decided he wanted to do something for essential workers in Hillsborough County. He bought pizzas and delivered them on his lunch break; he gave away 600 pies. “My passion is giving back and...

A top Ukrainian presidential aide called for the “liquidation” of Iranian factories making drones and missiles, as well as the arrest of their suppliers, as Kyiv accused Tehran of planning to supply more weapons to Russia. Writing on Twitter on Saturday, Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said Iran “blatantly humiliates the institution of international sanctions”, before calling for the destruction of Iranian weapon factories in response.

Christian population in Israel is growing, making the Jewish state the only place in the Middle East in which this is happening. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released a report on Christmas eve 2022 documenting the status and condition of Christians in Israel. The total number of Christians living in Israel was approximately 183,000, representing 1.9% of Israel’s population. The report went into detail, stating that 75.8% (138,800) of Christians in Israel are Arab, representing 6.9% of the total Arab population in Israel. The majority of Arab Christians live in the Northern District and Haifa District (70.2% and 13.6%, respectively)....

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, as Milton Friedman, the economist and intellectual author of the Reagan Revolution used to explain. Which means that when Federal Reserve prints out more cash to shell out for bigger and bigger government programs, look out. Inflation is on the way. Don't take this from me, this time. It's now what one of President Obama's top economic advisors is now warning as Joe Biden gets ready to sign the $1.7 trillion Omnibus bill passed by Congress, including 18 skeevy Republicans: On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steve Rattner, who served as...

“Conspiracy theorists … feeding the American public misinformation” is a familiar attack line for anyone raising free-speech concerns over the FBI’s role in social media censorship. What is different is that this attack came from the country’s largest law enforcement agency, the FBI — and, since the FBI has made combatting “disinformation” a major focus of its work, the labeling of its critics is particularly menacing. Fifty years ago, the Watergate scandal provoked a series of events that transformed not only the presidency but federal agencies like the FBI. Americans demanded answers about the involvement of the FBI and other...

The Bail Project paid to bail out a wife beater after he threatened to kill her. Anyone who’s not an idiot can guess what he did just hours after he was bailed out.Source: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-man-convicted-of-killing-wife-hours-after-his-release-from-jail/article_0789f565-4086-5618-ba1a-8331a8bdd536.htmlNow the charity has been sued out of existence after one of their other clients violently assaulted someone after they paid for his bail.Source: https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/non-profit-that-bailed-out-man-who-shot-chinatown-waiter-ceases-operations-following-backlash-from-critics/

Buffalo has been plunged into chaos as brazen looters wreak havoc on storefronts amid a historic blizzard that dumped six feet of snow on the northern New York city. It has become the deadliest storm to hit the western part of the state in 50 years, with at least 27 people reported dead as scores of others remain trapped in their houses and cars. Roads in the city remain impassable under several feet of heavy snow, as first responders struggle to reach those who remain trapped days after the storm hit.

After the experience of Covid-19, many people may be sensitive to reports of a rare disease surfacing anywhere in the world. So it won’t help matters that a South Korean man has recently passed away due to something known by the scary name of “brain-eating amoeba”. He was the first case reported in the country. Man had stayed in Thailand for 4 months In a press release on Monday (26 Dec), the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said the case had returned to South Korea after staying in Thailand for four months. He was a man in his...

A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering. Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming. It’s not technically difficult to release such compounds into the stratosphere. But scientists have mostly (though not entirely) refrained from carrying out even small-scale outdoor experiments. And...

Woke elitists and celebrities love spending money on ‘feel good’ projects that make them look engaged in society. Unfortunately, they often care more about the appearance of helping rather than actually benefiting society. Such is the case with California non-profit The Bail Project, backed by virtue signaling celebrities like John Legend, Danny Glover, and Richard Branson. According to their website, “The Bail Project combats mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system—one person at a time. We restore the presumption of innocence, reunite families, and challenge a system that criminalizes race and poverty. We’re on a mission to end cash...

@PeterSweden7 THIS IS HUGE The latest Twitter Files show that the government told Twitter to censor criticism of the mRNA vaccines. First they push this worthless shot on people, then censor the doctors who question it. Biggest medical scandal in history.

Thai Woman Treks 20km After Husband Stops Car To Pee & Drives Off Without HerMost of us have forgotten something big from time to time, but it usually results in inconvenience or embarrassment rather than chaos. Unfortunately, chaos was precisely what happened to one man when he forgot not a thing, but one of the most important people to him — his wife. The Thai man had parked his car by the roadside as he urgently needed to pee, but somehow he forgot his wife and drove off without her. As a result, the woman had to trek over 20km...

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has yet to secure enough GOP votes to win the speaker’s gavel when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3, prompting some Republican lawmakers to start eyeing his deputy, Steve Scalise, as a last-minute substitute. Supporters say that Mr. Scalise, 57, has all the right traits to win the job. Mr. Scalise said he has no intention of running for speaker and “supports Kevin McCarthy” for the position, his spokeswoman told The Washington Times. House Republican lawmakers are nevertheless warning the Louisiana Republican to be prepared to step in if Mr. McCarthy cannot secure a simple...

The Fed believes it has never had to raise rates higher and faster than at any time in the past 40 years to prevent Biden’s inflation from putting the US economy into a depression.