Newsbusters.

On MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, viewers were subjected to several painful minutes of self-indulgent whining over the purchase of The Baltimore Sun by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Media don’t especially appreciate losing control of an outlet.

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My, what a surprise.

Contrary to allegations leveled by a Democrat Congress member and the Biden administration, the Texas Military Department (TMD) asserted on Jan. 14 that the bodies of one adult woman and two children had already been recovered from the river by Mexican authorities before Border Patrol agents requested access to a fenced-off 2.5-mile stretch of the southern border in Eagle Pass on Jan. 12.

TMD, which runs the National Guard, provided additional details about the incident in an updated statement on Jan. 14, once again calling the allegations “wholly inaccurate.”

“At the time that Border Patrol requested access, the drownings had occurred, Mexican authorities were recovering the bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these facts to the TMD personnel on site,” the TMD stated on Jan. 14.

Democrats lie. It’s what they do. (And they complain about Trump?)

New York Times.

The odds of the NYT writing anything intelligent about either ‘rich Republicans’ or Trump is vanishingly small. Still, it’s good to know what the Uniparty’s propaganda arm is thinking.

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You still bump into the stickers from time to time: “Six Feet of Distance.” It’s weird and anachronistic at this point. No one pays any attention anymore. Still it would be nice to know where this came from. Oddly, we don’t really know.

There was very little ‘science’ behind the panicked response to COVID by all levels of government employees.

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American ‘journalism’: More interested in Elon Musk’s use of drugs than Hunter Biden’s.

No wonder the country’s in bad shape.

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Michelle Obama has said that she is kept awake at night by the thought of Donald Trump winning in 2024, in comments have already led to speculation that she could replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.

And she has every right to be, since Donald Trump as President would put another nail in the coffin of the race-hustler industry, of which she and her husband are poster children.

ZMan has some fun.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the massive food fight that erupted among the worst people over how the allegedly best people cheat like crazy. Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard, was supposed to be a proof of concept for the egalitarian blank slate religion of the Cloud People. In reality she was as synthetic as their empathy for people of color. Claudine Gay was a modern lawn jockey. Instead of standing on their lawn with a lantern, she held up her diplomas.

Then we have Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund guy who started this when Gay made unpleasant noises about Israel. He first threatened to withdraw funding and when that did not work, he went after her credentials. In a world of credentialism this was a declaration of war on the system. Soon the internet dug into Gay’s background and found examples of alleged plagiarism. Harvard then demoted her to being a million dollar a year political science instructor.

In response, MIT decided to get into the fight, and they leaked dirt to Business Insider about Ackman’s wife, who supposedly had a cut and paste problem too. It is ironic that people who are immune to the charge of hypocrisy thought they could use the charge of hypocrisy against people famously immune from the charge of hypocrisy. It is an example of how the hive mind operates. Once Ackman was declared outside the hive, he was no different from Trump or Hitler to the hive.

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The Wall Street Journal fired some serious shots at Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday night, dropping a lengthy hit piece accusing him of illegal drug use to an extent that has worried executives and board members while potentially jeopardizing Musk’s various federal government contracts.

The article relies heavily on anonymous sources, described, for example,” as “people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.”

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This week in 1995, a new GOP-controlled Congress was sworn in to office, the first time since the early 1950s that Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. The sweeping conservative victory in the 1994 midterms had shocked liberals, but within weeks the media elite were fully engaged in disparaging the new majority as mean-spirited, racist, dumb and dangerous.

Journalists zeroed in on the incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich, caricaturing him as a “Scrooge” and “the Gingrich who stole Christmas” (Newsweek) for suggesting modest reductions in the rate at which federal spending would grow in the future. Time’s Jack E. White approvingly relayed one Democratic Congressman’s smear that Gingrich’s plan would “actually cause black children to starve.”

Writing in Rolling Stone, PBS’s William Greider branded Gingrich “a world-class demagogue” engaged in “rancid populism.” NBC’s Bryant Gumbel cued up House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt to expound on his description of Gingrich and his “ilk” as “trickle-down terrorists who base their agenda on division, exclusion and fear.” The Los Angeles Times wrote that “from the bottom of the income ladder, the prospect of the Republican revolution is chilling.”

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Vivek Ramaswamy has done it again – running circles around corporate media hacks whose brains simply don’t have the same gear.

And so, they melt down…

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The shooting at Perry High School in Iowa claimed the life of a sixth grader and injured several others.

It quickly emerged that the now deceased shooter, 17-year-old Dylan Butler, had a social media footprint showing he identified as trans nonbinary.

The Other McCain does a victory lap.

See? It was a “disingenuous line of questioning” that provoked the Harvard president to defend the right of students to call for the genocide of Jews, and “thanks to the right,” the video went viral.

You’re welcome, America. To quote Treacher’s Law: “When a Republican screws up, that’s the story. When a Democrat screws up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.” When the media tries to make the story about Republicans “seizing” and “pouncing” on a controversy, you know it’s about maintaining a narrative in which the GOP is always the villain, no matter how egregious the Democrat behavior in question may be. Hunter Biden makes millions of dollars peddling his father’s influence to shady foreigners, but if you watch CNN, the story is about how those mean Republicans are taking advantage of Hunter’s “struggles” with addiction.

“Republicans claim victory for Harvard president’s resignation” is the Politico headline, which is their way of telling their readership that this is a very bad thing those mean Republicans have done. Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has compiled a stack of reactions to the Harvard scandal.

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A new ICE report released on Friday revealed a whopping 6.2 million migrants have been released from federal custody, but ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday acted as if the true hardship was the few thousand migrants recently bused to New York City, twice conveying the Democratic spin that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was guilty of “cruel and inhumane politics.”

If New York City finds a few thousand people overwhelming, what about border states that have had to deal with multiple millions of migrants every year since Joe Biden became President?

ABC’s opening tease showed their focus was limited to the concerns of Democratic mayor now inconvenienced by the faraway border crisis. Fill-in co-host Stephanie Ramos: “Migrant crisis: The pleas for help from mayors in major cities overwhelmed by busloads of asylum seekers, turning to the federal government for support, with the Texas governor accused of cruel and inhumane politics; his response this morning.”

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An attack on Christians in Nigeria over Christmas has left nearly 200 people dead. While Muslim herders are thought to be behind the violence, some major media outlets have blamed climate change for the killings, appearing to downplay existing religious conflicts.

The massacre took place on Christmas Eve in 26 different villages across the central Plateau state in the country’s interior. Locals said that bands of men armed with guns and machetes attacked villagers, killing 198 and wounding a further 300 in some of the worst anti-Christian violence seen in Nigeria in years, according to the Catholic News Agency.

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ABC’s The View is not known for rational and measured conversations, so for this retrospective of The View’s antics in 2023, you’re advised to get multiple rolls of tin foil! Throughout the year, the liberal ladies have floated all sorts of harebrained, truly bonkers, and rather laughable accusations and theories about everything from Republican ninjas planting drugs to presidential candidates using body doubles.

And what makes their insane accusations even worse is the fact that The View is under the ABC News umbrella.

Newsbusters.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2023 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Jihadist Journalism Award for Helping Hamas; The Damning Florida’s Dictator Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

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When he appeared on CNN last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confronted with a video from one of his speeches — a video CNN clipped to convey a false impression that he had compared Covid restrictions to conditions in Nazi Germany.

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It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union after seven decades in which the totalitarian communist state inflicted war, poverty and despair on its own people and the rest of the world.

The end had been in sight since communist hardliners failed in their coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev four months earlier. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and throngs of ordinary citizens stood against the coup, and Gorbachev was freed after 48 hours of house arrest. Following the coup, power quickly flowed from the communist party and the central Soviet government to the U.S.S.R.’s 15 individual republics, of which Russia was by far the largest.

For a world that had for decades feared the Cold War might lead to a global thermonuclear apocalypse, this was the best possible outcome — for the long-suffering people of the now-defunct Soviet Union, as well as those in the free nations they threatened. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

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Broadcast networks are still angry about a bill signed into law Tuesday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, which empowers state and local law enforcement to arrest and deport illegal aliens.

This is the second round of whining we’ve seen in response to this law; the first bout came when the Texas legislature passed the bill several weeks ago. At that time, the common refrain from talking heads was that the bill necessarily would lead to “racial profiling” and “discrimination.”

Broadcast reporters this week raised that same objection, while also touting pending litigation by outraged open borders advocacy groups (which they described as “civil rights” organizations).

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People need to realize the Left is using the alleged “existential” threat of global warming to wage war against liberty, against the Western world’s (not China’s) economy, and against joy.

The automobile, that magnificent enhancement to human freedom and joy, is a target of the Left.

The idea that individuals should be able to go where they want when they want in their own car is anathema to the Left. It provides way too much individual liberty.

Ideally, almost no one should own a car. We should all aspire to live in a high-rise apartment building in a major metropolis and use public transportation, ride bicycles, or walk. If for some reason we have to travel a longer distance, let us say to conservative relatives who selfishly own their own homes in the suburbs, we can use public transportation, and if none is available, we can use Uber or Lyft.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged there is no data supporting the co-administration of vaccines for mpox, COVID-19, and influenza, in contradiction of advice a top agency official gave to the public.

“There are no data on administering JYNNEOS vaccine at the same time as other vaccines,” the CDC said.

Newsbusters.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2023 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Joe Scarborough! The MSNBC host won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump wins re-election he will “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents. The former Republican Congressman, on the November 21 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe also claimed that the federal judiciary was the “only thing that stood between” Trump and “the destruction of American democracy” when he was in office.

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Wikipedia’s woke editors are scrambling to downplay recent scandals involving Harvard President Claudine Gay.

In recent days, editors have removed mention of the allegations from the intro to her article, eliminated detailed descriptions of the alleged plagiarism, and have attempted to minimize Gay’s handling of antisemitism on campus, Breitbart reports.

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A fight over Harvard’s page ensued as well, with one attempt to mention Gay’s controversy rejected by editor Samuel Klein, who previously served on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which governs Wikipedia. He argued that the content was ‘undue,’ and suggested an alternative version which essentially avoided Gay’s issues.

Newsbusters.

If ABC News is going to spend precious newscast time on a sex predator that tried to grab and do God-knows-what to three female students on separate occasions, then wouldn’t it be worthwhile to provide viewers with as much information as possible on the suspect so people know what to look for? It appears not.

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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear an appeal from a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant which will highlight a law used to charge hundreds of people in connection with that fateful day.

The case will decide whether defendant Joseph Fischer can be charged under a 2002 law which stemmed from the Enron collapse which makes it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding (like pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote?). The law has been invoked against Trump, along with 327 Capitol riot defendants – which an appeals court said the government could continue to invoke.

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Part of the ongoing invasion of the woke movement involves regular attempts to undermine Christian holidays as “problematic” and archaic. Leftists argue that increasing diversity (mostly through open border policies or illegal immigration) requires increasing inclusion at the national level. Meaning, it is not for immigrants to adapt to the west, the west must adapt to them. National celebrations like Christmas are therefore a representation of “discrimination” because they are being given preference over minority holidays.

This was the message given by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in a paper published under the radar in October. The treatise on “Religious Intolerance” was then condemned in a motion unanimously adopted on Nov. 30 by the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the Canadian Parliament. The paper cited Christianity’s two biggest holy days (Christmas and Easter) as examples of “present-day systemic religious discrimination” linked to colonialism because they are statutory holidays in Canada.

Watts Up With That.

Check out AlGore’s carbon footprint sometime.

The Atlantic.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.

Reality is what hangs around even if you don’t believe in it.

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“It just goes to show you that, at a time when these people are talking about telling poor countries to switch over to renewable energy, and people are starving, we also have folks driving the climate movement hosting ‘environmentally-friendly yachting’ panels,” Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s absolutely classic… they tell everyone else to sacrifice while they host discussions on ‘sustainable yachting’ among themselves.”

 

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More than 70,000 people are expected to show up to COP28, about 25,000 more people than last year’s summit, COP27.

Gates of Vienna.

Robert Fico, the new prime minister of Slovakia, has broken ranks with the New World Order in his pronouncements on the experimental mRNA treatment designed to prevent infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus, and related matters. It remains to be seen whether the actions of his government will line up with his words.

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I’m old enough to remember when Joe Scarborough spent most of his show kissing Donald Trump’s ass. Those were the days. Cast your mind back to 2015. Mika and Joe were still just “co-workers” and they would constantly yuck it up with then candidate Donald J. Trump. Don’t take my word for it — even the Washington Post wrote about their love affair with the Donald, describing the theme of these interviews as “bonhomie.” Erik Wemple explained, “Trump is often on the phone; some decent, journalistic questions get lobbed at Trump, often by Willie Geist; Trump makes more claims than the crew can possibly fact-check; and there’s a great deal of talk about polls.” When Willie Geist is asking the hard-hitting questions, you know you are in friendly territory.

Alas, that was then. If Scarborough’s most recent televised tirade against the former president tells us anything it is that the honeymoon is long over. Sitting next to the permanently nodding Mika, Joe ranted about the danger that is posed by candidate Donald Trump. “And if he is voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal, or figurative, or whatever the hell they’re saying, are going to look like idiots,” the host blustered. To be fair, if I was going to trust anyone on the subject of looking like an idiot, it would be Mr. Scarborough.

The fear-mongering wasn’t done just yet though. He continued, “Because he will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute, whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.”

You would think that, if such were possible, he’d have done that the first time around.

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Most of the time, single posts on Twitter/X aren’t worth rebuking with an entire piece, but Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi laid out an absolute banger this weekend when he lamented the idea of “citizen journalists” not being as professional, trained or equipped as he or his colleagues at major news outlets like the Post, New York Times or CNN. The idea that citizen journalists are not every bit as capable as journalists employed by these outlets (and others) is ridiculous and should be rebuffed.

Farhi posted, “Someone invented the phrase ‘citizen journalism’ a few years ago to describe amateurs doing the work of pros. Yes, it occasionally works, but probably no more often than ‘citizen cop,’ ‘citizen attorney’ or ‘citizen soldier.’”

There’s a lot to unpack here, starting with the idea of citizen versus professional journalist. When professional journalists at Newsweek sat on the Monica Lewinsky story, trying to figure out how to minimize the damage to their great white hope then-president Bill Clinton, a citizen journalist broke the story — perhaps the biggest of the decade. When professional journalists attempted to kill the John Edwards story, the National Enquirer ran with it and effectively ended any political ambitions Edwards may have had.

Supplying 65% Of Our Energy, America Must Lead On Oil and Gas

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (The Guardian) Do you believe that ‘scientists’ can measure the temperature of the earth with any accuracy? I don’t.

A Look at California’s Landmark Climate Reporting Laws

Maria Bartiromo Floats Bonkers New COVID Conspiracy About Trump and China (Daily Beast)

Longer COVID School Closures Linked To Youth Suicide Rates

IRS Says Some People Can Still Get COVID Stimulus Cash… Here’s How

Americans More Polarized Than Ever Over Ivermectin

Homeschooling Trend Accelerates Even After COVID Lockdowns

Vanity Fair: ‘Secret Warnings’ About Wuhan Before COVID

The mRNAs Didn’t End COVID, Omicron Did: Berenson

Earth passed a feared global warming milestone Friday, at least briefly (Washington Poop) Apparently they have a big thermometer stuck up the Earth’s butt, giving them the temperature from minute to minute. Sure, I believe that….

The world briefly smashed through the 2-degree warming limit for the first time (CNN) You heard the sound of the smash, of course, didn’t you? After all, it was a ‘limit’.

Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday (Axios)

Global Temperatures Briefly Crossed Critical Threshold For The First Time Last Week (Forbes)

One Greenwich school has a geothermal heating system. It’s ‘failed across the board,’ officials say.

Family Businesses Can’t Afford To Lose Access To Reliable Electricity

The Fifth National Climate Assessment Report is Driven by Government Deception & Climate Alarmist Politics

Federal Energy Efficiency Requirements Are Outdated and Should Be Repealed

Tuvaluan’s May ‘Escape’ to Australia, but if They Do, Associated Press, It Won’t Be Because of Climate Change

Study Reveals Most Common Chronic Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination

“Tranhausen By Proxy?” Parents’ Personality Disorders Driving Surge In Trans Kids: Psychiatrists

4 more free COVID tests will be available to each household ahead of the holidays (ABC News)

US to Offer More Free COVID Tests Nationwide  For all the people out there still wearing masks.

US Has Highest-Ever Childhood Vaccine Exemption Rate In History  Gee, I wonder why?

How Major Environmental Groups Ended Up on the Wrong Side of California’s Housing Crisis (Mother Jones)

“Reduce Your Emissions Within Two Months Or Face The Consequences”, Brussels Tells 12 Member States

Are EVs a Doomed Technology?

How Green Billionaires Groom the Public into Accepting Unworkable Net Zero Policies

Recycling Eco-Myths Is The Existential Threat

Climate Enron May Be Heading for a Crash

Uncle Sam Begging Anti-Vaxxers to Come Back to Army  Good luck with that.

The COVID Caper Gradually Unravels

CDC Claims On Vaccination And Natural Immunity Made Without Seeing Underlying Data: FOIA Document

Only 3.6% of Americans Got Updated COVID-19 Shots as of Oct. 31

Why So Many Countries Followed China’s Lockdown Example  Life (for the ruling  class) would be SO much easier if we were all just Communist dictatorships. Ask Thomas Friedman.

New Email Shows Fauci Adviser Suggesting He Destroyed Records

CDC CCP

The world’s largest single-site solar farm just came online (Electrec)

UAE Inaugurates Giant Solar Plant, Two Weeks Before Climate Talks (Barron’s)

UAE’s Masdar opens world’s largest single-site solar plant ahead of COP28 (Al-Monitor)

Masdar and partners inaugurate 2 MW single site solar farm (Energy Global)

Energy Companies Dominate The Top US Companies For Employee Retention

China cons US on green energy agenda

Offshore Wind Costs

Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World

The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean “Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine habitat.”

2 degrees, 40 feet: Scientists who study Earth’s ice say we could be committed to disastrous sea level rise (NBC News)

Heating Homes With Natural Gas Is More Than 40% Cheaper Than Electricity: US EIA

Study: 58% of world’s richest companies quietly lobby against climate policies. (UPI) How is this news?

‘It feels like I’m not crazy.’ Gardeners aren’t surprised as USDA updates key map (NPR)

“No One Will Want Solar”: California Cuts Rooftop Solar Subsidies In Blow To ‘Green’ Industry    If you have to pay someone to do something that they wouldn’t do on their own….

New Report Raises Concerns That CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Is Broken

Plasmid DNA Contamination In COVID-19 Vaccines Is ‘Clear Breach Of Informed Consent’ By FDA: Dr. Malone

CDC Releases More Newborn RSV Shots as Cases Surge

The Army’s Two-Faced Covid Memo

Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study (The Guardian)

What Happens When You Put a Fossil Fuel Exec in Charge of Solving Climate Change (TIME)

Cop28 Climate Summit Host Also Runs Abu Dhabi’s State Oil Company (Mother Jones)

UAE oil giant’s two missions: a greener image and ‘accelerated growth’ (Politico)

Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers’ revolt that turned a nation upside-down (The Guardian)

Climate Change Is ‘Ultimate Threat to Humanity,’ Biden Says Before Boarding Private Jet To Meet World’s Largest Carbon Emitter

Price paid for offshore power to rise by 50%

India To Increase Coal Production By 60%

Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy

How China Dominates the World – And Lies about Climate Commitment

Biden DOJ Quietly Hires More Lawyers For Vaccine Injury Lawsuits

The Rise Of Pharma Fascism And The Ruination of the Commons

Top FDA Officials Accepted Jobs With Moderna After Playing Key Roles In The Licensure Of COVID-19 Vaccines  My, what a surprise.

Sen. Rand Paul Says He Wants Federal Prosecution Of Fauci For COVID Coverup

An Illegal Chinese Biolab Containing Infectious Diseases Operated in California. The Feds Ignored It for Months. 

Scientists are beginning to understand how long COVID symptoms affect the brain (NPR)

Government Deceit

Inside EcoHealth Alliance’s closed-door congressional testimony

Actress Sues AstraZeneca After COVID-19 Jab Leaves Her With Brain Injuries