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  • Report Criticizes ‘Catastrophic Errors’ of COVID Lockdowns, Warns of Repeat

    03/18/2024 6:51:37 PM PDT · by lightman · 8 replies
    epoch times ^ | 17 March A.D. 2024 | Kevin Stocklin
    It was four years ago, in March 2020, that health officials declared COVID-19 a pandemic and America began shutting down schools, closing small businesses, restricting gatherings and travel, and other lockdown measures to “slow the spread” of the virus. To mark that grim anniversary, a group of medical and policy experts released a report, called “COVID Lessons Learned,” which assesses the government’s response to the pandemic. According to the report, that response included a few notable successes, along with a litany of failures that have taken a severe toll on the population. During the pandemic, many governments across the globe...
  • Arizona county faces 'homelessness on steroids' as migrant shelter funds run out

    03/18/2024 5:38:39 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 22 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 18, 2024 | By Ted Hesson and Liliana Salgado
    TUCSON, Arizona - An Arizona migrant shelter that has housed thousands of asylum seekers plans to halt most operations in two weeks when funding from Washington runs out, a problem for towns along the border where officials fear a surge in homelessness and extra costs. Arizona's Pima County, which borders Mexico, has said that at the end of the month its contracts must stop with Tucson's Casa Alitas shelter and services that transport migrants north from the border cities of Nogales, Douglas and Lukeville. Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher said the county cannot afford the roughly $1 million per week...
  • Canada Distopia Making Headway [semi-satire]

    03/16/2024 10:28:47 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 1 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 17 March 2024 | John Semmens
    Disappointed that his 2022 abuse of the Emergencies Act to suppress public protest against his draconian Covid restrictions was ruled unjustified by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now pushing legislation called the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63). This law would allow the government to impose prison sentences of up to life behind bars on persons who post "hate speech" on social media. Civil liberty advocates have called the proposed law "totalitarian" and "Orwellian." George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley asserted that "the proposed law constitutes a doubling down on Canada's totalitarian commitment to...
  • Biden admin funnels $1 billion for climate programs at borders amid ongoing migrant crisis

    03/15/2024 3:04:24 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 25 replies
    FOX News ^ | March 15, 2024 | By Thomas Catenacci
    The Biden administration is funneling $1 billion in taxpayer funds to America's northern and southern borders to make dozens of federal ports of entry more climate friendly. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced it would direct Inflation Reduction Act funds to support the climate initiatives at the border, even as the ongoing surge of migrants strains federal resources. While GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan and Andrew Mayock, President Biden's Federal Buy Clean Task Force co-chair, said the action would reduce "harmful emissions," the move was slammed by Republicans and experts. “As usual, the Biden administration is refusing to address a problem...
  • How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health (parental freedom legislation… “creates obstacles to vaccination, the foundation of pediatric care.”)

    03/14/2024 6:34:29 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 48 replies
    KFF Health News ^ | MARCH 12, 2024 | Amy Maxmen
    Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected that they cannot speak. Such children are now even more vulnerable because of a law Tennessee passed last year that requires the direct consent of birth parents or legal guardians for every routine childhood vaccination. Foster parents, social workers, and other caregivers cannot provide permission.In January, Borne took a foster baby, born extremely premature at just over 2 pounds, to her first doctor’s appointment. The health providers said that without the consent of the child’s...
  • ‘Follow the Science’ Leads to Ruin

    03/14/2024 9:05:58 PM PDT · by bitt · 19 replies
    wsj.com/ ^ | 3/13/2024 | Bjorn Lomborg
    Climate policy needs to take into account the costs of draconian measures, which are enormous. More than one million people die in traffic accidents globally each year. Overnight, governments could solve this entirely man-made problem by reducing speed limits everywhere to 3 miles an hour, but we’d laugh any politician who suggested it out of office. It would be absurd to focus solely on lives saved if the cost would be economic and societal destruction. Yet politicians widely employ the same one-sided reasoning in the name of fighting climate change. It’s simply a matter, they say, of “following the science.”...
  • New York AG questions Trump cash reserves as $464 million judgment looms

    03/12/2024 12:03:54 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 23 replies
    Former President Donald Trump has not shown that he has enough cash to cover the full amount of a $464 million civil fraud judgment if he loses his appeal, New York’s chief law officer warned in a court filing Monday evening.New York Attorney General Letitia James raised that concern as she argued that Trump and his co-defendants should be required to post cash or bonds covering the entire fraud judgment, if they want to pause it from coming due while they challenge the ruling.
  • Trump’s Vaccine Rhetoric Sends Chills Through Public Health Circles

    03/11/2024 8:34:05 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 65 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/09/24 | Nathaniel Weixel
    Public health advocates are watching in growing alarm as former President Trump increasingly embraces the anti-vaccine movement. “I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” Trump said in a recent campaign rally in Richmond, Va. It’s a line Trump has repeated, and his campaign said he is only referring to school COVID-19 vaccine mandates — but that hasn’t eased fears that the GOP leader could accelerate already worrying trends of declining child vaccination. Trump “is an important voice. He has a big platform. And he uses that platform, in this...
  • WEF Wants Ban on Home-Grown Food [semi-satire]

    03/06/2024 8:33:49 AM PST · by John Semmens · 11 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 3 March 2024 | John Semmens
    The World Economic Forum (WEF) is urging governments to ban people from growing their own food. Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of WEF, asserted that "the dabbling of amateurs in food production is bad for the climate. The dispersed nature of home gardens makes them hard to regulate. Abolition is the best way to eradicate this undesirable use of scarce resources." "Our goals for the masses of zero meat and dairy consumption, zero automobile ownership, a maximum of three new items of clothing per person per year, and only one short-haul flight of less than 1500 km every 3 years...
  • Biden to launch joint FTC-DOJ task force to crack down on ‘unfair and illegal pricing'.

    03/05/2024 5:17:20 AM PST · by MrRelevant · 46 replies
    CNBC ^ | 3/5/2024 | Rebecca Picciotto
    “We’re excited to be co-chairing the president’s new Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing, which builds on the FTC’s far-reaching work to promote competition and tackle unlawful business practices that are inflating costs for Americans,” FTC Chair Lina Khan told reporters on a call Monday.
  • UN climate chief’s blunt message: Fewer loopholes, way more cash to really halt climate change

    03/04/2024 6:13:31 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Associated Press | DNC ^ | March 2, 2024 | BY SETH BORENSTEIN (D-AP)
    To keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations, the United Nations climate chief said Friday. In an unusual and blunt lecture at a university in Baku, Azerbaijan, the host city of upcoming international climate negotiations later this year, United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell called gains made in the past not nearly enough. Without the proper amount of cash, he said those could “quickly fizzle away into more empty...
  • Our Constitutional Republic Has Gone Crazy But There’s Nowhere To Hide

    03/02/2024 7:29:33 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2 Mar, 2024 | Matt Keener
    Even as more people try to escape the madness of society by opting for the simple life, it is inevitable that the government will not let them. My newsfeed this week was a mixture of Laken Riley’s murder, Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation outside of the Israeli embassy, and Dr. Phil becoming increasingly “red-pilled”—or, at least, attuned to the fact that the left and the mainstream media world (but I repeat myself) in which he works were completely wrong and even insane on topics like COVID restrictions and school closures, the southern border, and promoting the “trans youth movement.” No wonder ever...
  • A right-to-work repeal warning from Michigan

    03/01/2024 11:50:47 AM PST · by Twotone · 4 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | February 29, 2024 | Alfredo Ortiz
    Michigan Democrats’ repeal of right-to-work took effect this month, forcing unionized employees to belong and pay dues to their unions as a condition of employment. This marks the first time in 58 years a state has repealed a right-to-work law, which exists in 26 states and allows workers to opt out of union membership and dues. Eliminating right-to-work is Michigan Democrats’ payback to the unions who fund their political campaigns. But don’t expect anti-worker Democrats in the pocket of Big Labor to wait another half-century for their next victim. They’ve already set their sights on Wisconsin. Last week, Wisconsin Democrats...
  • Why the United States Went ‘Communist’

    03/01/2024 4:20:45 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 67 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 1 Mar, 2024 | Stephen Baskerville
    Some four years ago, the radical left staged what amounted to a coup d’état and took control of the United States government. The events surrounding that coup — and the horrific policies that followed — have been described many times: the COVID “vaccine” hoax, rigged elections, imprisoning dissenters, weaponizing the Judiciary, open borders, the pointless killing in Ukraine. Yet no one has explained why all this happened or how to stop it. The fact that no scholars or media have even attempted to explain this power-grab itself partly reveals the explanation. If we ask why people on the left took...
  • MUST READ… A Thousand Years of Prison Time Over A 6-Hour Delay of Congress: January 6 Show Trials Now Represent The Gravest Injustice In U.S. History

    03/01/2024 8:17:04 AM PST · by Kazan · 27 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Mar. 1, 2024 | By Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D.
    Every student of the First Amendment knows about the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids of World War I, the persecution of the Chicago 7, crackdowns on anti-war movements, and the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO abuses and surveillance of Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers.But the single greatest mass infringement on fundamental First Amendment freedoms is happening right now. And the civil liberties establishment, which rakes in millions annually parroting the civil rights talking points of the 1970s, has turned its back on the greatest mass political persecution in American legal history: the railroading of January 6 defendants.As...
  • 'Woke authoritarian agenda': Trudeau Liberals propose life sentences for online 'hate speech'

    02/28/2024 9:18:23 AM PST · by Twotone · 33 replies
    The Blaze ^ | February 27, 2024 | Joseph Mackinnon
    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deeply unpopular regime rolled out new legislation Monday that threatens to radically transform the Canadian legal landscape and equip activists with new means of clamping down on speech they perceive to be hateful. On its face, Bill C-63, the so-called "Online Harms Act," contains various uncontroversial elements such as the promise to tackle child pornography online. While Justice Minister Arif Virani and other Liberal officials have emphasized these elements when promoting the bill, the child protections appear only to be the vehicle for the transformative substance of C-63. C-63 would enable Trudeau's leftist government to define...
  • Progressive Prosecutors Build a New Kind of Police State - They’re not defunding the police; they’re funding the thought police.

    02/26/2024 11:08:14 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 26 Feb, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state. AG James had run for office promising to “reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and prosecute Trump’s family businesses” and she kept her word. Criminals now roam free in the state while prosecutorial resources were dedicated to targeting political opponents. In New York, criminals have nothing to worry about from the Attorney General’s office, only Republicans do. And this is becoming the norm among “progressive...
  • IRS agent duped into explaining how colleagues start out nice, end up as indifferent robots 'destroying lives' -- AI selecting small bank accounts for warrantless searches

    02/26/2024 9:55:52 AM PST · by xoxox · 19 replies
    Frontline News (AFLD) ^ | February 26, 2024 | 04:50 AM | Posted by Frontline News Staff
    If the whistleblowers won't come to the journalist, then the journalist… Poor Alex Mena. Among his revelations to his button-camera-wearing date was that, “It’s almost impossible to lose your job in the government.” No update forthcoming so far, but it seems probable that Mr. Mena will soon be available for work. Since leaving Project Veritas, investigative journalist James O’Keefe has had a number of notable successes in getting high-placed government officials and others to open up about what they do. For his latest project, he sent a newly trained recruit to speak with Mena, who works in the IRS Criminal...
  • BREAKING: IRS official Alex Mena who works in “Criminal Investigations” says IRS ‘has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.’

    02/21/2024 1:59:26 PM PST · by packagingguy · 60 replies
    @JamesOKeefeIII at Twitter/X ^ | February 21, 2024 | James O'Keefe
    Mena ‘doubts the constitutionality’ of his employer, the IRS, using AI to access everybody’s bank accounts nationwide. Mena recalls IRS agents stating “…the first person you shoot you’re gonna remember, but after that you’re gonna shoot like a hundred people, you’re not gonna remember any of them.” He says IRS agents “are assholes...they are the definition of an asshole, all of them.” This video was obtained by an O’Keefe Media citizen journalist who is a part of our American Swiper Program.
  • Joe Biden is Putin lite

    02/19/2024 3:01:02 PM PST · by Starman417 · 21 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 02-19-24 | DrJohn
    Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. No question about it. He's seen any number of his political opponents die under "mysterious circumstances." He crushes dissent. He weaponizes government against the opposition. He has a soulmate in the US. Joe Biden.Joe Biden is the nearest thing to Vladimir Putin we've ever seen. He's got the FBI targeting churches and PTA moms, he's censoring conservatives and dissidents on Twitter and Facebook, he's lied to us repeatedly about COVID, and has shoved climate change down our throats. Biden is trying to cut off advertising money to conservative companies. House Small Business Committee Republicans...