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ASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.as health and human services secretary continued to reverberate through the pharmaceutical industry Friday. Shares in vaccine maker Moderna fell 2.0% in premarket trading Friday, while Pfizer was down 0.5%. In Thursday trading, shares in the companies dropped 5.6% and 2.6%, respectively. In Europe, shares in Danish Mpox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic fell more than 15% Friday, while pharma heavyweights AstraZeneca, GSK and Sanofi dropped 2.5% or more. Kennedy has promised sweeping changes to food-and-drug regulation and government-funded scientific research, in recent days saying the Food and...

Israel's Oct. 26 retaliatory strike on Iran "destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility," according to an Axios report. The news outlet spoke to various U.S. and Israeli officials about the strikes, including one on Iran's Parchin Military Complex, a nuclear research facility that was "previously reported to be inactive." "One former Israeli official briefed on the strike said it destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it." Iran claims to have brought its military nuclear program to a halt in 2003, and yet...

President-elect Donald Trump's surprise nomination of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz took the internet by storm Wednesday. The predominant thought from both sides of the political and ideological aisles was, "What the hell was Trump thinking?" There are several possible explanations for the choice: Donald Trump values loyalty above all other traits in those he would choose to help him govern. Matt Gaetz has been as loyal as anyone other than Trump's direct family. His dedication to reining in Merrick Garland’s DoJ lawfare and other extracurricular hijinks places him high on any list of loyalists. Despite Democrat ravings, this is the...

“There never was a good war or a bad peace,” Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1783. Wise words indeed, and very true. Unfortunately, humans too often find themselves at war, as millennia of conflict can attest — the earliest known war was in Sudan a staggering 13,400 years ago. Among the many wars fought in human history, some stand out for their peculiar nature, whether due to the strange events that provoked the conflict or for the lack of any actual fighting. Here are 10 of the strangest wars in history, from the 14th century to modern times. The War of...

General Motors (GM) announced Friday it is is laying off some 1,000 workers worldwide, cutting costs as it tries to compete in a crowded global automobile market. The GM workers impacted, mostly white collar, were told early in the morning as they prepared for the weekend. The company confirmed the layoffs in a statement but gave few details, AP reports. The move comes on the back of a recent GM recall for 450,000 vehicles due to a fault in the braking system. “We need to optimize for speed and excellence,” the statement said. “This includes operating with efficiency, ensuring we...

Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino revealed on an episode of The StoneZONE with Roger Stone last week that he is “seriously considering” running for Congress in New York’s 21st District. The district will soon to be vacated after President Trump announced his appointment of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who currently occupies the seat, as U.N. Ambassador. On Thursday Anthony officially filed the paperwork and is in the race! TGP previously covered Constantino when he defied a city order to remove the massive “Vote for Trump” sign he had erected on one of the industrial buildings his company owns in Amsterdam,...

DEFENSE PAPER: TAMING THE WARFARE STATE The United States is sailing through turbulent waters: the post-Cold War unipolar moment has passed, and the 21st-century geopolitical landscape is shaped by sweeping social, political, and technological change. Our current defense policy, a relic from a bygone era, is an expensive and ill-fitting suit that no longer serves its purpose. The fiscal storm is upon us, and profound changes are needed to right the ship. The Defense Elephant in the Room The realization that the United States is in fiscal free fall is beginning to sink in. An economic crisis looms, one that...

The Biden administration said on Friday that it had completed an agreement to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company up to $6.6 billion in grants, as federal officials race to put in place their plans to boost U.S. chip manufacturing before the end of President Biden’s term. The administration struck a preliminary agreement in the spring to provide TSMC with the funding, which will support three new factories in Phoenix. The government will give TSMC the money in tranches as the company meets milestones. In a statement, Mr. Biden said that the foreign direct investment in the facilities was the largest...

Axios reported Friday that Israel did, in fact, hit Iranian nuclear facilities in its response last month to Iran’s ballistic missile attack, confirming reporting by Breitbart News based on a theory first floated by Israeli columnist Caroline Glick. As Breitbart News reported in October: [Glick] noted that Israel hit Parchin, a secret Iranian military base that has long been a suspected site for Iran’s nuclear program. Media reports suggest that the target at Parchin was “a building that was part of Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons development program, and … facilities used to mix solid fuel for missiles.” But the program...

ST. LOUIS, Monday, Nov. 14. Information has been received here that Gen. CANBY, while ascending the White River on the gunboat Cricket, was shot by a guerrilla from the shore, on the 6th inst., and was seriously if not fatally wounded in the groin, the bullet passing through his body. The steamer Darling passed Cairo on Saturday with 485 bales of cotton for Cincinnati, and the steamer Arago brought 330 bales to Cairo. Later -- The Rumor About Gen. Canby Confirmed -- His Recovery Doubtful -- Capture of a Rebel Brigadier-General and One Thousand Cattle -- The Rebels under Magruder...

VIDEONecklace Boy aka Tim Miller appeared on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" hosted by TDS victim Nicole Wallace in order to GLOAT over what he thought was the sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion. Sorry, Necklace Boy, but that did NOT happen. The federal Bankruptcy Judge HALTED that sale because it turned out that the Lawfare cretins did NOT sell Infowars to the highest bidder at auction which is a YUUUUUUGE No-No. That same bankruptcy judge is holding a hearing on this matter next week so the Lawfare cretins can explain why they VIOLATED the rules of bankruptcy auctions...

The neocons are working overtime to release countless aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump takes over in January. Bloomberg has reported that the Biden Administration The Biden administration is committed to ensuring “every dollar we have at our disposal,” in a message championed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken rushed to Brussels after Trump’s victory to discuss how NATO and the EU can drain America for additional funding ahead of Trump’s term. “The purpose of this visit is to focus our efforts on ensuring that Ukraine has the money, the munitions, and the mobilized forces to fight effectively...

The meltdown has gotten so heavy liberal bureaucrats are ready to form antigovernment militias and fretting about black helicopters —Max Blumenthal. “Many Democrats were considering how to navigate a dark future, with the party unable to stop Mr. Trump from carrying out a right-wing transformation of American government. Others turned inward, searching for why the nation rejected them. They spoke about misinformation and the struggle to communicate the party’s vision in a diminished news environment inundated with right-wing propaganda”— The New York Times In July 27, 1794, the non-insane members of the Convention, or national legislative body in Paris, suddenly...

Who Won the Jewish Vote? The answer depends in part on what you mean by ‘Jewish’ American Jews are a hard-to-define religious and ethnic group spread across multiple U.S. Census categories, possessing last names from at least a dozen different languages and clustered in places that are often overwhelmingly non-Jewish. It takes a team of demographers and sociologists from the Pew Foundation years to determine a plausible American Jewish population figure, something they only attempt once per decade (even then there’s often dissension over the results). Anything less than a carefully designed, agenda-free national survey, or an exhaustive study of...

NEW: RFK Jr. says there will be COVID trials once appointed as Secretary of HHS Says the Trump admin will use RICO filings to break up big pharmaceutical cartels and punish corruption with severe legal penalties So it begins

Imagine this: It’s 1984, and two amateur paleontologists are digging in a quarry near Waukesha when they discover what ultimately turns out to be about 2,000 invertebrate fossils — things like soft-bodied worms and shelled creatures like snails and tiny crustaceans, essentially entombed. They are an astonishing 430 million years old and many have never been seen before. Forty years later, as researchers are still identifying and classifying new species from the rare collection, one of them names a little trilobite after you. “It still hasn’t sunk in. It is such a huge, huge honor,” says Carrie Eaton, who is...

The Democrat Bucks County Commissioners just voted to count misdated and undated mail in ballots to try and help Bob Casey and one of them straight up says that she knows it's illegal but simply does not care. Dems are trying to steal an election in PA. VIDEO: https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1857146486321975406 Her phone number appears to be on her website. Would be a shame if she got flooded with calls from people telling her to stop trying to steal an election that her candidate lost.

ROME — Conservative Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was ousted from his Texas diocese by Pope Francis in 2023, has rebuked his fellow U.S. bishops as “silent shepherds” for their failure to speak out against “false messages” coming out of the Vatican. In an open letter addressed to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during their 2024 fall plenary assembly in Baltimore this week, Bishop Strickland repeatedly asks what it will take for the bishops to “finally speak up against the false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis”: Almost all of you “stood by...

The overwhelming focus of the environmental movement over the past three decades and more has been the push to eliminate the use of hydrocarbon fuels and transform the world’s energy system into something based on supposedly cleaner wind and sun. This effort has always been doomed to failure, because energy produced by wind and sun does not work satisfactorily and is wildly too expensive. So it has long been obvious to the well-informed that this whole effort will inevitably go away at some point. But after the desperate cries of crisis and alarm from thousands of activists for decades on...

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said that Mike Huckabee, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, “has been making statements that [seem] to back up Netanyahu” and Netanyahu “has committed some war crimes with some of the actions that he’s taken in Gaza.” “And I just don’t think that Mike Huckabee is going to be someone who is going to hold Netanyahu to account. And that’s a pretty scary thought.” Duckworth said, “I do think that Mike Huckabee is someone that, when we bring him before the committee, we should...