Posts on Wednesday, February 10, 2021
It was for your own good. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce coordinated with a bevy of left-wing activists, unions, and others to “fortify” the 2020 election for Joe Biden. The Chamber is getting the open borders it wants and the soft-on-China policy it wants, all to the detriment of working families. Of course, in the Time recounting of a year-long initiative that pulled every lever of power in the country, the Chamber’s motives were pure, to ensure a fair and unquestionable election. To do this, the Chamber helped to change election laws nationwide, destroying election integrity in multiple swing states and demonizing anyone who questioned the results.
Leftist Mayor of London Sadiq Khan unveiled a Black Lives Matter inspired ‘diversity’ commission on Tuesday, which will review all historical monuments in the British capital. Mr Khan’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, which is comprised of left-wing activists and celebrities, will seek to “improve diversity” in London, targeting statues, street names, memorials, and building names. The stated intention of the group will be to determine what “legacies should be celebrated” and to increase representation among “Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, women, LGTBQ+ and disabled groups,” a press release from the mayor’s office said.
DDA Jonathan Hatami Files a Harassment
Lawsuit Against LA County District Attorney
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Lawsuit Against LA County District Attorney
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has only been in office a little over two months, but he is already a boil on the side of Lady Justice. Gascon has not only raised the ire of the Deputy District Attorneys in his office, but of District Attorneys in other counties across the State. Gascon’s “Special Directives” are being disregarded by local and regional law enforcement, and the liberal-leaning District Attorneys Union has filed a restraining order against him. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold, and Judge James C. Chalfant have recently neutered Gascon’s policies of removing enhancements and special circumstances in criminal cases, and not enforcing three-strike allegations.
X-Men: Apocalypse and The Predator star Olivia Munn tweeted her support of the “stop Asian hate” campaign, claiming that fellow Asian Americans are suffering “racist, verbal and physical assaults” in the U.S. The biracial Ocean’s 8 star, whose mother is from Vietnam and father is of German and Irish ancestry, posted her plea to social media on Tuesday with a message warning her fans about the “rise of anti-Asian hate crimes.”(Snip) “The racist, verbal and physical assaults have left my community fearful to step outside.” The Newsroom star went on to pin this rise in hate crimes against Asians on the coronavirus,
Beware Mitt Romney Bearing Gifts
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Mitt Romney is a spring chicken. At a sprightly 73, the GOP’s 2012 nominee is: one year younger than the outgoing president and 2024 frontrunner, five years younger than both the incumbent president and the Senate minority leader, and seven years younger than the Speaker of the House. In the uppermost echelons of American government, only the Senate majority leader—boy wonder Chuck Schumer—is any younger, and only by three years.
Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of controversial anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines," a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement. Kennedy, the son of late former US Attorney General, US Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, has repeatedly spoken out against vaccines. He has lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from state requirements that mandate they vaccinate their children. The lifelong Democrat downplays his anti-vaccine views, though, by saying that he is actually in favor of safe vaccines and noting
Bernie, you “ignorant slut”?Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy on Wednesday put an old “Weekend Update” twist on criticism of Neera Tanden’s tweets, saying President Biden’s nominee for White House budget director called Sen. Bernie Sanders “everything but an ignorant slut.”
Tanden recently deleted more than 1,000 of her insult-laden tweets that attacked GOP senators but also trashed the 2016 Sanders presidential bid as Russia’s choice against party favorite Hillary Clinton.“I’m very disturbed about your personal comments about people. It’s not just one or two, I think you deleted a thousand tweets.
If there’s one way to make sure COVID-19 deaths don’t go down, this is it.
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined forces this week to publicize a federal program that will reimburse the families of coronavirus victims up to $7,000 for funeral expenses for deaths from the disease that occurred in 2020 — even if the death involved an illegal alien.
And, according to CNN, Schumer said the lawmakers want the program to last as long as the pandemic does — which means the numbers are likely to show the pandemic lasting a
Twitter Confirms Ban of Donald Trump Is
Permanent; They May Not Have Thought
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Permanent; They May Not Have Thought
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At the end of an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Wednesday in which he talked in part about the big tech company’s plans to roll out new revenue streams, Twitter chief financial officer Ned Segal was asked, in what was almost an aside, about the possibility of President Donald Trump returning to the social media platform, if he wins re-election in 2024.Here was Segal’s answer, per CNN: “The way our policies work, when you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform,” he said, “whether you’re a commentator, you’re a CFO, or you are a former or current public official. Remember, our policies are designed to make sure
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld’s program “The Greg Gutfeld Show” is expanding into a weeknight schedule, according to an announcement from the media company. “The Greg Gutfeld Show” currently airs in the Saturday primetime lineup but will be moving to the weeknights because of its “incredible success,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said according to a press release. The move will happen in the second quarter of 2021 and Gutfeld’s weeknight show will air at 11 p.m.“People need a reason to laugh. Greg’s unique and irreverent talk show has been an incredible success, often beating the late night broadcast competition, despite its Saturday timeslot,” Scott said regarding the move.
Joe Biden on Wednesday held his first call as president with Xi Jinping, pressing the Chinese leader about trade and Beijing’s crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong as well as other human rights concerns.The two leaders spoke just hours after Biden announced plans for a Pentagon task force to review U.S. national security strategy in China and after the new U.S. president announced he was levying sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime following this month’s coup in the southeast Asian country.A White House statement said Biden raised concerns about Beijing’s “coercive and unfair economic practices.” Biden also pressed Xi on Hong Kong, human rights abuses against Uighur and ethnic minorities
Chaos erupted at the end of the second day of the second impeachment trial of now former President Donald Trump as House Democrats were forced to withdraw from the record a statement a GOP senator said was falsely attributed to him after Senate Democrats lost control of the proceedings while they sought to wrap up for the day.Specifically, the incident that distracted from the Democrats’ case against Trump began when Democrat impeachment manager Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) recalled public reporting that then-President Trump allegedly called Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) by accident when he supposedly meant to call Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) while senators were in a temporary holding room after
Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who heavily promoted the JFK assassination conspiracy theory with his 1991 Oscar-winning movie “JFK,” now claims that his four-hour documentary on the same subject is being blocked from release in America due to fact-checks.Speaking with filmmaker Spike Lee for Variety’s “Directors on Directors” series, the Academy Award-winning director said he “can’t find a home” for his documentary in America.“What’s the the status of JFK documentary?” Lee asked.Later, when Spike Lee asked if perhaps Netflix would pick it up, Stone said that fact-checkers kept it from finding it a home on various platforms.
Senior citizen knocked to ground,
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kicked by Manhattan bus passenger—
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A nasty New York nanny with a child in tow pushed an elderly woman down in the snow and kicked her because she didn’t have enough room to squeeze by as she was getting off a Manhattan bus, cops said Wednesday. The 73-year-old victim said she was trying to negotiate a narrow path in the snow at W. 57th St. near Eighth Ave. on Feb. 3. when an impatient passenger who was getting off the bus pushed her and kicked her several times before running off with the child.(Snip) “I said, “Please, I have to get to the bus. They’re holding the bus
Watch: Screaming Match Unfolds After Juan
Williams Accuses Co-Hosts Of Supporting
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Williams Accuses Co-Hosts Of Supporting
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On Wednesday, Juan Williams lied on national TV by saying that his co-hosts on ‘The Five’ supported the violence that occurred at the Capitol on January 6th.After his blatant lie, Williams’ co-hosts fired back and a shouting match erupted.“Let me tell you! Facing the truth is the way that we solve this! This is the way we bring the country together,” Williams began shouting.
“Ignoring the problems is never the way to solve them!,” he added.“You shouldn’t be impugning our intentions, Juan! That’s the problem!,” Gutfeld shouted back.
ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran compared former President Donald Trump’s control over the Republican Party to a “Caesar” and a “Fuhrer” Wednesday on his network’s coverage of the second impeachment of Donald Trump.Moran said, “Whatever you think of this case, they have risen to the moment. This is an atrocity in our history, an atrocity against our Democracy, and the care with which the Democratic House managers of this impeachment trial have come prepared, their argument is organized, they are ringing the notes of patriotism and the emotion of the attack itself, and surrounding that with what they hope is an evidentiary trail from Donald Trump to
Democrat election violations: (left to right) Secret ballot counting in Georgia, Secret ballot deliveries at 3:30 AM in Detroit, Blocking observers from viewing inside the TCF Center in Detroit. At midnight on election night, President Trump warned his supporters not to let Democrats “find any votes at 4 in the morning.”President Trump was ahead in Pennsylvania by nearly 700,000 votes. In Michigan Trump was ahead by over 300,000 votes. In Wisconsin Trump was ahead by 120,000 votes.
The Dallas Mavericks have played the national anthem before a home game against the Atlanta Hawks, just hours after billionaire team owner Mark Cuban relented to the NBA's demand that the song be played at all games.A recorded version of the Star-Spangled Banner was played before Wednesday night's game at American Airlines Center, while Mavericks and Hawks players and staff stood lined up on the court.As the anthem concluded, the smattering of fans in attendance broke out in applause and cheers. The Mavericks are currently allowing 1,500 fans at home games, with tickets available to vaccinated healthcare and essential workers.
Graffiti artists struck multiple cars of an M train, completely defacing them from top to bottom with colorful tags and doing tens of thousands of dollars of property damage, the MTA said Wednesday.Video posted to Instagram on Monday shows the subway train — featuring cartoon-like characters and depictions of a skyline exposed through a brick wall — chugging along the tracks of an unspecified elevated Big Apple station. Officials discovered the vandalism at around 6:50 a.m. Monday, according to the MTA.The vandals apparently hit the train at a so-called layup area in Queens near the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station,
Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl LV Jeep commercial was yanked from YouTube on Wednesday after the rock legend’s DWI bust came to light.The clip for “The Middle ft Bruce Springsteen” on Jeep’s YouTube page now reads: “Video unavailable. This video is private.”The Hollywood Reporter first reported that the ad had been taken off Jeep’s page at around 1 p.m.The commercial wasn’t on Jeep’s Twitter Wednesday, either. However, it was still available on Springsteen’s Instagram account.The “Born to Run” icon appeared in and narrated the spot, which aired during Sunday’s game. It was revealed days later that Springsteen, 71, was arrested Nov. 14
Leaders of prominent gun control groups said Wednesday they expect to see substantive action from President Biden on the issue in the near future after a meeting with White House officials. “President Biden is committed to taking executive action and working with Congress to put in place reforms that will keep this country’s kids and communities safe,” said Peter Ambler, executive director of the group Giffords. “Today’s meeting was a strong affirmation of that commitment.” Mr. Ambler and other leaders met virtually with Susan Rice, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for the 2021 class Wednesday morning.
“This remarkable ballot reflects the diversity and depth of the artists and music the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebrates,” said John Sykes, Chairman, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, in a statement. “These Nominees have left an indelible impact on the sonic landscape of the world and influenced countless artists that have followed them.”
Larry Flynt—the notorious porn peddler and free speech defender who built a smut empire out of “Hustler” magazine—reportedly died on Wednesday. He was 78. His brother, Jimmy Flynt confirmed the death to The Washington Post but did not cite a specific cause. Flynt succumbed to heart failure at his Los Angeles home, TMZ reported, citing family sources. Larry Flynt had suffered from a slew of health problems since a 1978 murder attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down. The controversial mogul and self-described First Amendment champion was known for his myriad legal battles involving free speech and pornography regulations.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s attempt to ditch the national anthem was an acknowledgment of U.S. shortcomings. The White House spokeswoman was asked about the billionaire’s move, which was quickly torpedoed by the league as the news went viral.
“I haven’t spoken with the president about the decision by Mark Cuban or the Dallas Mavericks,” Ms. Psaki said of the plan to omit the national anthem from the Mavericks’ first 13 home games. “I know he’s incredibly proud to be an American, and has great respect for the anthem, and all that represents, especially for our men and women
White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed support for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s decision to remove the national anthem from the team’s home games because they “feel [the anthem] doesn’t represent them.”
During the Wednesday press briefing, Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the Biden administration’s stance on Cuban’s decision. While the press secretary acknowledged that President Joe Biden is “proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem,” she also said he would support the Mavericks for calling out the frequent times when “we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals.”
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A district attorney on Feb. 10 asked state officials to preserve records potentially related to the 2020 election as she revealed that her office has opened a probe into attempts to influence the administration of the election.
The investigation includes “potential violations of Georgia law prohibiting the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election’s administration,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, said in letters to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and other officials.
House Republicans released a plan to retake the House majority in 2022 by targeting 47 districts with vulnerable Democrats.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) noted in a memo that the Republican Party is just five seats away from holding a majority in the House of Representatives, saying that the GOP can be competitive in four-dozen districts.
“We are just a few weeks into the Biden Administration and Americans are already seeing the job-killing initiatives House Democrats support,” stated NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer in a release. “We will relentlessly hold House Democrats accountable for their socialist agenda and ensure voters understand the damaging impact policies like defunding the police,
Two men were busted for rubbing a dirty diaper on an independent, conservative reporter’s face and attacking her during a Black Lives Matter rally in Madison Square Park last month, according to authorities and police sources. Tara Anne Szczepanski, 33, was filming the rally around noon Jan. 10 when a group shoved her around, hit her on the head with an egg and knocked her cellphone to the ground with an umbrella, cops and the sources said. The caught-on-video scuffle continued as Szczepanski ran from the group, cops said. She was sprayed with silly string and whacked with a skateboard before someone
Talk about sh – – ty design. Amazon’s new proposed headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, is a glistening double helix—but it’s being compared to a poop emoji in good humor on Reddit. The 2.8-million-square-foot double-helix-shaped building designed by architecture firm NBBJ was inspired by DNA, galaxies, weather patterns, pinecones and seashells, according to the building proposal press release, which didn’t mention whether excrement was also an inspiration. Members of the local r/nova (northern Virginia) Reddit group responded positively to the new dung-like building, calling it a “beautiful piece of architecture” and saying “I’d rather people try buildings like this
A mob of Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday night to yell at police and harass outdoor diners while chanting insurrectionist slogans such as “if we don’t get it, burn it down.” Like most similar incidents involving Black lives Matter, the corporate media took zero interest in covering the march and accompanying threats of violence.
The gathering of Black Lives Matter and Antifa agitators was dubbed the “FTP March,” a reference to “F**k The police.” (Tweet/graphic) The mob tramped through multiple streets, shining flashlights in the windows of residents and local businesses.
(Snip) D.C. police appeared to show little interest in controlling
Hillary Clinton: If GOP Senators Don’t
Convict, It Proves That the Jury ‘Includes
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Convict, It Proves That the Jury ‘Includes
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Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a warning to Republican senators ahead of the first day of arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump concluding that they — the jurors — will prove that they are “his co-conspirators” if they do not ultimately side with Democrats and convict him.“If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense,” Clinton said on Wednesday. “It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators”:
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians.Biden said he was issuing an executive order that will prevent Myanmar’s generals from accessing $1 billion in assets in the United States. Biden added that more measures are to come.“The military must relinquish power it seized and demonstrate respect for the will of the people of Burma,” Biden said.Biden said the new sanctions will allow his administration to freeze U.S. assets that benefit Myanmar’s military leaders while maintaining
‘Real-world costs are devastating’: 14 AGs
threaten legal action over Keystone
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threaten legal action over Keystone
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Fourteen GOP state attorneys general decried President Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline in a letter on Tuesday, urging the president to reconsider and warning that they are considering legal action if that doesn’t happen.“Please be aware that the states are reviewing available legal options to protect our residents and sovereign interests. In the meantime, we urge you to reconsider your decision to impose crippling economic injuries on states, communities, families, and workers across the country,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen wrote in a letter to the Biden administration. Knudsen is the author of the letter and is leading the coalition of 13 other state AGs who co-signed it.
The House Democrat impeachment arguments are terrible. But there's one odd thing that stands out in their word salads of innuendo and conjecture. [SNIP] "When he stood at the podium before thousands of his supporters, President Trump knew that they were armed and that they were angry."
These two references to an "armed crowd" are strange because no one has been accused of opening fire at the Capitol Riot. Even the worst actors seem to have resorted to using the usual rioter tools, sprays, poles, shields, and assorted objects that were weaponized, but were not weapons.
The National Basketball Association announced on Wednesday that all teams would play the national anthem before games.
The announcement marks an apparent rebuke of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who decided he would not mandate the playing of the anthem before the team’s home games. The Mavericks have already played their first home games without the anthem, including their first home game with fans in the audience. “With NBA teams now in the process of welcoming fans back into their arenas, all teams will play the national anthem in keeping with longstanding league policy,”
Joe Biden faces revelations that he was personally involved in discussions regarding his family’s dirty overseas business dealings, according to email communications found on Hunter Biden’s laptop that have been reviewed in their entirety by NATIONAL FILE.“Don’t mention Joe being involved,” one of Hunter’s business partners James Gillar told another Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski in a WhatsApp text message, referring to Hunter’s overseas dealings. As we reported, Hunter Biden’s business dealings link him to Chinese espionage against America, with Joe Biden personally meeting the CEO of a Hunter firm that invested in a Chinese nuclear power company that the Obama DOJ charged with trying to steal American nuclear secrets.
The Trump-ordered sale of TikTok by its Chinese owners to US companies Oracle and Walmart has been put on hold while President Biden reviews the executive order that strong-armed it.
In what could be a huge gift to Beijing, the new president was reported to have stopped a landmark action by his predecessor Donald Trump who called the app a threat to national security.
Last year, as TikTok erupted in the US amid a spike in social media usage thanks to the pandemic, concerns grew with it that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it, was using it to gather intelligence on American consumers.
The second sham impeachment of now-former President Donald Trump has begun and it’s already shaping up to be as big of a clown show as the first one was.Not only does it come at a time when Congress should instead be focusing on the lingering pandemic, a sputtering economy, tens of millions of Americans still unemployed or underemployed, new migrant caravans heading to our southern border, a China-Mexican cartel alliance pumping fentanyl into Middle America and killing thousands, but it’s also clearly unconstitutional.
Julie Strauss Levin, writing in the Virginia Star, makes this clear:President Trump’s attorneys have clearly responded to the absurd Article of Impeachment. Their answer on Trump’s behalf
Since giving a speech in 2018, Maxine Waters has faced criticism for the alleged incitement of violence.“If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them,” Waters told a crowd of supporters at a Los Angeles rally in June 2018. “And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”With Donald Trump being accused of inciting the violence witnessed in Washington D.C. in January, Waters has faced renewed accusations of similar incitement — accusations that often reference the widespread violence
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday reiterated her push for President Biden to unilaterally cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, warning that whether or not the White House does so "all comes down to public pressure." The New York Democrat said progressives need to keep pressing the Biden administration to move further left on the matter after the president indicated he was "unlikely" to use his authority to fully forgive student loan debt for individual borrowers. "The Biden admin NEEDS to be pushed," Ocasio-Cortez wrote during an Instagram Q&A on Tuesday night. "They have said they're comfortable with $10K
Making sure a mask fits snugly on the face and use of two masks is likely to significantly reduce a person's exposure to the coronavirus, laboratory experiments described by U.S. health officials on Wednesday showed. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January conducted experiments to see how well wearing a cloth mask over a three-ply medical procedure mask, and knotting the ear loops of a surgical mask and then tucking the excess material close to the face, protects against COVID-19. They found that both these methods helped reduce the exposure to potentially infected aerosols by more
Approval ratings of the Republican Party have taken a hit since the November election, and the greatest drop in opinion has occurred among Republicans themselves, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. Following the election, the GOP enjoyed a 90% favorability among Republicans, according to a previous November poll. That approval has now dropped to 78%, or a drop of a dozen percentage points. An even third of independents gave the Republican Party a thumbs-up at election time; that finding has only dropped by a single percentage point to 32%. Among Democrats, 9% approved three months ago; the finding actually rose by 1 percentage
He was Bombed in the USA! Bruce Springsteen was arrested for DWI and reckless driving in his home state, it was revealed Wednesday—days after he appeared in a much-hyped Super Bowl commercial for Jeep. The “Born to Run” icon, 71, was busted Nov. 14 at Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, a spokesperson for the National Park Service said.
Springsteen was charged with DWI, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed area, the spokesperson said. “Springsteen was cooperative throughout the process,” the spokesperson added. According to TMZ, which first reported the arrest, the allegedly juiced Bruce
A French nun who is Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus on 16 January but didn't develop any symptoms. She told local media she "didn't even realise I had it". She isolated separately from other residents in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, but is now considered fully recovered. Sister Andre, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, is now looking forward to celebrating her birthday on Thursday - although she is going to mark the occasion with a
A scientist on the WHO's controversial fact-finding mission to Wuhan has today launched an extraordinary attack on US intelligence—saying it is 'wrong on many aspects' about Covid. Peter Daszak, a British-American expert in pandemics, warned people not 'to rely too much' on information coming out of the US and instead to 'trust' Chinese data. He also accused President Biden of 'trying to look tough on China' after a State Department spokesman questioned whether Beijing had been fully open with the WHO investigation.(Snip) But Daszak's own credibility is in question after it emerged the organisation he heads, the EcoHealth Alliance,
The claim is so pervasive as not to be questioned: Five people died as a result of the January 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol building, killed by blood-thirsty Trump voters at the president’s behest, out for revenge over a stolen election.
Even though only one death—the shooting of Ashli Babbitt by a still-unidentified police officer—is provable by video evidence, the other fatalities nonetheless are accepted as an article of faith to stoke public outrage about what happened that day.
The most tragic death, the media and lawmakers lament, is that of United States Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.(Snip) himself a supporter of Donald Trump.
Masks are killing us
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The bulk of seniors who are at risk from COVID have either died of the disease, survived the disease or been vaccinated against the disease. New cases are dropping quickly.
Over ten percent of the overall American population has been vaccinated – over 40 million of them – and that figure is increasing at the rate of about 11 million a week. It looks like nearly everyone who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated by late spring. Meanwhile, drug treatments have proved increasingly effective. Most recently, the FDA approved a drug cocktail from Eli Lilly.
There will come a time when COVID masks are no longer necessary.
The Coming Military Purge
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One of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s first actions after confirmation has been to order a “60 day stand down” to combat extremism. This follows the widespread and mostly baseless establishment fantasy that “right-wing extremists” and “white supremacists” are running rampant and pose some immediate threat to the country.
The details and definitions will ultimately determine whether this campaign is a sensible one that is in keeping with the Constitution or ends up being a purge of the overwhelmingly conservative ranks of the military. No reasonable person would object to removing dangerous and disloyal people from the service, but such a limited goal is distinct from punishing those with merely dissenting
Given that there have been only four presidential impeachments in American history, and given that only one man has twice suffered the indignity, viewers who tuned into the start of Donald Trump’s second Senate trial had a right to expect a buzz of excitement and a sense of drama.
What they got instead was buzz-kill and all the drama of watching paint dry. Who knew impeachment could be so lifeless and history so meaningless?
Certainly Chief Justice John Roberts knew. His refusal to preside reveals the exercise to be a cheap knockoff rather than the real thing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands accused of violating federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers, according to stunning information obtained by NATIONAL FILE.
CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. (Snip)The CDC is now legally requiring red-blooded Americans to wear face masks on all public transportation as globalists try to push the concept of “double-masking” (Snip) Since the election, the World Health Organization admits that PCR tests are not totally reliable on the first try
Put this one in the “we had to burn the village to save it” column of bad ideas … again. Despite the obvious unconstitutionality of the plan, McClatchy reports that Democrats still want to keep the so-called 14th Amendment Option in reserve in the all-too-certain case that the impeachment trial results in an acquittal for Donald Trump. Democrats want to defend the Constitution by violating one of its core controls on congressional power, it seems: House and Senate Democrats may push ahead this week with a censure resolution to bar former President Donald Trump from holding future office over his role in the U.S. Capitol riot
If you read the headline of a blockbuster, 6,000-word-plus story in Time magazine, you might think former President Donald Trump wasn’t so wrong about the election, after all.
Despite the tease, Molly Ball’s “Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” doesn’t allege widespread voter fraud in what some Trump supporters still insist was a “stolen” election. Nor is the essay an exposé of illegal activity that would justify the Trumpian challenges to the results that threatened to tear the country apart.
But what Time did uncover is disturbing enough, even if most of those involved are proud of what they did
DeceptiCons Perplexed, President Trump
Support Not Waning – Retribution to GOP
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Support Not Waning – Retribution to GOP
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Interestingly Politico is picking up on a fear amid the GOPe (establishment) that President Trump will likely not only survive the second insufferable impeachment effort, but he is likely to exit stronger than ever…. and that means retaliation against the DeceptiCon class of republicans.
This is the blind spot of the UniParty, their inability to see that smart Americans have identified their motives and are prepared to destroy them.
This is the aspect CTH warned about(Snip) The GOPe is so fraught with elitist perspectives, it continues to assemble as a hopeless echo-chamber, and they never see what is happening at the grassroots level in Middle-America.
Our Illiberal Moment
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Voltaire’s apocryphal maxim “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is in the process of being turned squarely on its head. Today, a more suitable rendering might read: “I disapprove of what you say, you are exiled, goodbye.”
To be adequately maintained, classical liberalism demands three key virtues. Humility, so that each of society’s competing factions might comprehend that it will not always hold power. Tolerance, so that the habitual reaction to a difference of opinion is the shrug rather than the bayonet. And forbearance, so that the immediate rush of victory can be subordinated to longer-term ambition.
If you think state and federal government COVID-19 policies are too restrictive, you haven’t been to a college campus lately. Schools across the country have imposed extreme, micromanaging rules on 19-22 year olds—a demographic more likely to die from the seasonal flu and pneumonia than COVID. (Snip)
Many schools, like Southern Methodist University, forbid students from having guests in their dorm rooms. Others have even installed security cameras in the hallways aimed at residents’ doors to monitor adherence.
Most institutions have isolation dorms or, as some students call them, “isolation prisons,” where students who test positive for COVID are forced to live alone for two weeks (sound familiar?).
Republican lawmakers in the House introduced legislation last week dubbed the OMAR Act to address the circumstances surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) paying her husband’s consulting firm $2.8 million during her campaign for a House seat.
Conservative congressmembers filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and now hope to prohibit enriching relatives through the campaigning process.
Midwives have been told to stop using terms including "breastfeeding" and “breastmilk” as part of a new trans-friendly policy at an NHS trust.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust is the first in the country to formally implement a gender inclusive language policy for its maternity services department — which will now be known as "perinatal services".
Staff (snip) have been given a list of alternative terms to use when addressing patients including "mothers or birthing parents", "breast/chestfeeding" and "maternal and parental".
Instead of saying "breastmilk", they can choose from "human milk" or "breast/chestmilk" or "milk from the feeding mother or parent".
Calling out the Unholy Six Republican
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The following is copied and pasted from the CBS News website, February 9:
Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined all 50 Democrats in voting to uphold the constitutionality of [Trump's post-presidency impeachment] trial.
First, concerning a certain Senate Democrat: you too, Joe Manchin?
Clearly, the Republican senators listed above have, by their vote against the express language of the Constitution, made common cause with the rabid Senate Democrats
For years folks have debated the value of bitcoin. Warren Buffett has declared it a gigantic hoax. Economists have struggled to see if it fits in the convention of money. (snip) But now the debate has been settled. Elon Musk, our new arbiter of all that is in and out, has purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin and announced that Tesla plans to accept it as payment. Bitcoin predictably has jumped to a record high, in excess of $46,000, and now is up more than eight-fold in the past year. (snip) it is timely to ask not what bitcoin is worth, but what its valuation tells us about ourselves.
Since Nov. 3rd, one particular line has been repeated almost to the point of becoming a meme: “There will never be another honest election in this country.” (snip) This reflects conservative defeatism. (snip) COVID was a one-shot deal. But what about the fraudulent systems already put in place during the 2020 campaign? It happens that almost all the battleground states (along with nearly half the states in the country) excepting Nevada are GOP-controlled at the legislative level. (snip) What this means that the Republicans are finally going to get off their fat duffs and do something.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is launching a new Netflix kids show titled Waffles and Mochi that will promote healthy eating and diverse foods from different cultures. Michelle Obama announced that the show will debut on Netflix on March 16. “I’m excited for families and children everywhere to join us on our adventures as we discover, cook, and eat delicious food from all over the world,” she tweeted. CORRECTION*
A year has passed since the last US service member was killed in combat in Afghanistan — the first such stretch since the war started almost 20 years ago, a report said Tuesday. The last two Americans who died in battle in the country — Army Sgts. 1st Class Javier Gutierrez and Antonio Rodriguez — were slain on Feb. 8, 2020, Stars and Stripes reported.But the period of calm, which coincides with the US-Taliban peace deal, could be threatened if the US decides to keep troops in Afghanistan past a May 2021 deadline, the military newspaper reported.
Give the green shirts long enough and they will reveal their true intentions. This happened most recently when a Massachusetts official said “we have to break” the will of the average person to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It’s another in a long line of admissions made by the climatistas – thank you, Steven Hayward, for adding that descriptive term to our lexicon – that inadvertently exposes their authoritarian urges.
Ranting last month before the Vermont Climate Council, David Ismay, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s undersecretary for climate change, said that “60% of our emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles,” produced
Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan and Sarah Palin locked horns in a heated interview on Tuesday concerning former President Trump and alleged election fraud. Morgan insisted there was no evidence of voter fraud and Palin was ready and willing to spar over it. Palin adamantly claims there were “shenanigans” in the 2020 presidential election. Piers Morgan demanded that she admit it was a fair election and that Biden won in the end. That led to a tense exchange of political opinion.The first thing that happened was when co-host Susanna Reid tried to box Palin into a corner forcing her to admit that Trump actually told supporters to riot.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Tuesday that his franchise would no longer play the national anthem prior to his team's NBA home games. It's a long-standing tradition to play the anthem before home games in all major professional sports, and even all the way down to high school athletics.
Cuban said that will come to an end with the Mavericks.
The national anthem hasn't been played at any Mavericks games so far at the American Airlines Center this season—preseason or regular-season games. Cuban told ESPN that he consulted with NBA commissioner Adam Silver before letting the rest of the world know about his decision, ESPN reported.
People may need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots, over the next several years, Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told CNBC on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, as [the virus] spreads it can also mutate,” he told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell during a Healthy Returns Spotlight event.(Snip) Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now. Health officials will have to continuously watch for new variants of the virus,