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Video shows Ray Epps, among other things, encouraging unlawful entry into the Capitol building, yet he has never been prosecuted. Why?

Under Ted Cruz’s repeated questioning, Ms. Sanborn repeatedly states, “I can’t answer that.” I suppose she hopes you will think that she is saying that she does not know. However, she precedes the litany of “I can’t answer that” responses by saying that she is “can’t go into sources and methods….” What does that tell us? Her “I can’t answer that” is all about sources and methods, not any lack of knowledge.

As I hear her testimony, her “I can’t answer that” is because it would reveal “sources and methods.” Who sources and methods? The FBI’s, of course. In other words, I hear her answers as essentially admitting that the FBI was involved in encouraging the January 6 unlawful entry into the Capitol building.

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I was awake ridiculously early this morning (like 4 am), and was caught short by the news of the FAA ground stop and landing order for air traffic in the western U.S. yesterday in hair trigger response to a North Korean test launch of a hypersonic missile. The FAA’s statement left things pretty vague as to why. I note the mainstream media caught up with this unusual story today, but as usual offer superficial accounts.

The ground stop and landing order (similar to the landing order of 9/11) only lasted a few minutes and was quickly cancelled, but I am wondering about the linkages and protocols between NORAD and the FAA’s air traffic control system. It doesn’t seem there was much time lapse. Maybe this is just part of the post-9/11 world. But I also wonder if there is something we aren’t being told. Why would the government order a total ground stop and landing order for the west coast in response to a single missile launch? I can think of a few plausible reasons, but I can also think of some others that are less reassuring.

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BRAAAAAAAINS!

In pivot to voting rights, Biden risks falling short on a second big goal (Washington Post)

Coalition of Georgia voting rights groups won’t attend Biden’s speech in Atlanta (CNN)

Kamala Harris channels Jimmy Carter, blames American ‘malaise’ for Biden’s woes

VP Harris’ new comms director said George W. Bush ‘stole’ election from Gore, was ‘illegitimate’

#BareShelvesBiden trends on Twitter as shoppers encounter desolate grocery store aisles: ‘Apocalypse Now’

Bipartisanship is out for Biden. It’s about time. (Washington Post)

Report: State and Local Governments Spent $5.6 Million on Lawyers for Illegal Immigrants

‘Urgent Reset Needed’: Democratic Insiders Come Forward To Admit Biden Admin Has ‘Gone Backwards’ On COVID Policy

Biden Boasts About Voting Rights, But Scarborough Mocks Stacey Abrams Fleeing Him!

House Republicans Release Damning Fauci Emails Suggesting Concealed Knowledge Of Lab Leak

DOJ Creates Specialized Unit For Domestic Terrorism Amid Attempts To Dub Jan.6 “Worse Than 9/11”

Djokovic’s positive PCR test was manipulated

Biden Seeking Advice From Russia Hawks On How To Handle Ukraine Talks

Biden Admin To Reduce Oil Leasing in Alaska  Energy crisis? What energy crisis?

Biden’s Education Secretary Allegedly Requested ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Letter From School Boards Group

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A reasonable precaution until the Powers That Be determine where it was headed. If we need to trigger our ballistic missile defense system, minimizing the number of Innocent Bystanders is alway a good idea.

Which agency ordered the ground stop remains a mystery. North American Aerospace Defense Command spokeswoman Pamela Kunze told CNN on Tuesday that the order was not national and that a regional air traffic control facility might have issued the ground stop.

That statement contradicts what airport officials and pilots heard at the time, sources reported.

San Diego International Airport spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo told Newsweek that air traffic controllers informed airport officials of a national ground stop order at about 2:30 p.m.

“We really don’t have any more details,” LoPiccolo said.

CNN reported that an air traffic controller cited “a national ground stop” in ordering a Cessna pilot to land.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The CDC and other government agencies grossly overhyped the covid epidemic. Many suspect that this was done intentionally, in order to drive President Trump from office. The best argument against this hypothesis is that foreign government agencies were nearly as panic-stricken as our own.

The Minnesota Department of Health maintains an extraordinary volume of records relating to every death that occurs within the jurisdiction. These data include not only the entire contents of the death certificate, but information as to who found the body, the address and phone number of the funeral parlor, and much more–a spread sheet with over 250 fields in total. I bought the complete MDH mortality records for 2020 and the first half of 2021, had one of my staff members slim the spread sheet down to the relevant fields, and printed all the records where the death certificate included the words “covid,” “sars-2,” etc. I then spent some time reviewing these thousands of records.

If you follow this simple procedure, you immediately realize two things: 1) most “covid deaths” involve people who have already lived longer than the average life expectancy in our state, and 2) when you look at the various maladies listed on the death certificates, in a large majority of cases covid was the least of the decedent’s problems. In many if not most instances, it seems a marvel that the person was still living so as to catch the coronavirus.

Chicago Schools Close For 4th Day As Anti-Science Teachers’ Union Refuses To Budge

COVID-19 Omicron Variant Resistant to Monoclonal Antibodies – But Neutralized by Vaccine Booster

Omicron 105% more transmissible than Delta, say French scientists

How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable (The Hill) Accountable for what? Deciding not to PANIC?

Federal agencies prepare to act against unvaccinated employees (The Hill)

Study Finds Supreme Court Has Now Shared More COVID Misinformation Than Your Crazy Facebook Aunt Babylon Bee.

Povidone Iodine (PVP-I) Oro-Nasal Spray: An Effective Shield for COVID-19 Protection for Health Care Worker (HCW), for all

ABC’s Karl TORCHES Biden Over COVID Testing Failures

AOC Accuses COVID Virus Of Just Wanting To Date Her  Babylon Bee.

Almost Half Of New York COVID-19 Hospitalizations Not Due To COVID-19

California Folds; Says Asymptomatic COVID-Positive Health Workers Can Get Back To Work Amid Shortages

We Have Ways of Making You Vax

Jay Sekulow Explains Vaccine Mandate Cases Before Supreme Court

European Leaders Double Down On Demonizing Unvaxx’d But Jabs Fail To Stop Transmission

The Cure For COVID Is Turning Off The TV

Australian Gov’t Weighs Whether To Bar Djokovic For 3 Years After Judge Orders Immediate Release

Stelter Decries Media ‘Doomsday Doctors’ Spreading COVID ‘Panic Porn’  That’s a change.

Pfizer Promises Omicron Vaccine Will Be Ready In Time For Their Q1 Earnings Report  Babylon Bee

The Six Stages of the “Pandemic”

‘The View’ Spreads COVID Misinformation, Defends Sotomayor’s Falsehoods

The Only Way for Unvaccinated Workers to Work in NYC is to Become Artists

Rachel Bovard Challenges Social Media on Now-Credible COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has tested positive for Covid-19, less than one week after she was spotted partying maskless at a crowded bar in Miami.

Biden Admin Cuts Florida’s Weekly Monoclonal Shipment In Half  God forbid that Ron Desantis should be successful at anything.

The Hunter Connection? Kazakh Security Chief Arrested For Treason Was “Close Friends” With Bidens

Cyprus reportedly discovers a Covid variant that combines omicron and delta (CNBC) So I guess it’s once again TIME TO PANIC!

A rough week for Bay Area schools, as sickouts, closures persist amid omicron surge (S.F. Gate)

Vaccine Scientist Banned From LinkedIn

Funny Business With Vax Numbers in Bavaria

COVID Vaccines Do Disrupt Menstrual Cycles, New Study Reveals

Iowa Nursing Home Operator Forced Into Bankruptcy By “Crippling” Staff Shortages

Flee in Terror — The Next Variant Has Arrived!

Covid Mortality In Europe

UK Scientist Says Omicron Is “Ray Of Light” That Could Help Transform COVID Into Common Cold

CDC Director Sheepishly Admits Justice Sotomayor Issued COVID Misinformation On Hospitalized Kids

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Sen. Joe Manchin has yanked his proposal for a $1.8 trillion compromise on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan off the table, according to reports — potentially the final nail in the coffin of the Democratic Party’s signature social-spending agenda.

The Lesson Of COVID: When People Are Anxious, Isolated, & Hopeless; They’re Less Ready To Think Critically

The first thing to do when you feel omicron variant symptoms (Deseret News) Right after you PANIC!

Omicron forces crippling closures for small businesses (NBC) No, GOVERNMENT forces crippling closures for small business.

CDC director blames ‘fast-moving science’ after being confronted with memes attacking agency’s credibility  GOTTA DANCE….!

Nets Hide Liberal Justice Sotomayor Spreading COVID Misinformation  And Justice Kagan likewise. This is what happens when Democrats put affirmative-action tokens on the bench.

Watch: McDonald’s Kiosk Denies Man Service Over Vaccine Status

British Military Deploys 200 People To London Hospitals As Staffing Shortages Bite

UK Gov’t Admits Evidence For Face Masks Stopping COVID Spread In Schools “Not Conclusive”

Moderna CEO Scrambles To Sell More Boosters As Omicron Wave Shows Signs Of Waning  If you want to know what’s behind the ‘news’, follow the money.

WA State ‘Health Leaders’ Propose a Police State

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Omicron Could End Up Being Less Deadly Than Seasonal Flu; New US Study Finds  But the Crust would still rather you PANIC!

Chicago Parents Sue Teachers Union Over Refusal To Educate In-Person

Nutty NY Times Orders ‘Dangerous’ Athletes: Cease Dissent, Get With Vax Program

VP Harris’ new comms director suggested Biden ‘Dazed and confused,’ slammed Trump for ‘janky science vaccine’  If this is here ‘communications director’, I can see why she’s having problems.

Harris’ new communications director apologizes for tweets on ‘undocumented folks’

Did Biden just declare a civil war on Americans? Sure sounded like it to me.

Congressmen Say Biden Withholding Deportations Report To Cover Up Extent of Border Crisis

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Two of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates came before the Supreme Court for oral argument yesterday, one arising under OSHA and the other arising under the auspices of HHS. I thought the first of these cases raised the question of administrative law regarding the lawful scope of agency authority in an unusually pure form. Listening to the oral argument in NFIB v. OSHA, however, I have been disabused of the notion.

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The case is apparently a vehicle for low-definition yammering of the kind to which we have grown accustomed on cable news. Indeed, three of the justices appear to get their understanding of related facts from cable news. If there is a question of principle in the case, it has been lost somewhere in the allegedly thinning layer of ozone.

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Yet another reason not to fly.

Can you get the omicron variant twice? (Deseret News) Maybe not if you PANIC!

Could microclots help explain the mystery of long Covid? (The Guardian) Anyway, better PANIC!

These Supreme Court arguments are about far more than vaccine mandates (CNN)

Supreme Court is set to review Biden’s vaccine rules for businesses, health-care workers. Here’s what to know. (Washington Post) The WaPo is all about telling you what to know … and think.

Big push for Californians to switch to N95 or KN95 masks as Omicron surge worsens KA-CHING!

COVID live updates: Oakland teachers plan sickout for Friday (S.F. Chronicle) Look for … the Union label….

Navy discharges first sailors for declining COVID-19 vaccine

How vaccine mandates became a political weapon

Judge Rejects FDA’s 75 Year Delay On Vax Data, Cuts To Just 8 Months

Unvaxxed Aussies Told They Won’t Be Allowed To Exercise Or Go To Work

Chicago Cancels School For Third Straight Day Amid Standoff With Teachers Union

Czech Tennis Pro Voracova Joins Djokovic In Australian Immigration Detention, Leaves Country

Mayo Clinic Fires 700 Unvaccinated Employees Weeks After Nurses’ Warning  Apparently virtue-signaling has a higher priority than patient care. Good to know.

Malone Maligned: Big Tech Censors mRNA Pioneer Over Vaccine Safety

South African Researchers Say Omicron Might Mark The End Of COVID Pandemic  Not if Democrats have anything to say about it.

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Harry Reid was one of the most corrupt, hyper-partisan, mendacious, and dishonest people ever to disgrace the United States Senate – a Senate that contained, remember, Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd.

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A federal district court judge granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by more than 20 Republican attorneys general challenging the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit revocation.

Judge Jeffrey Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, ruled that he couldn’t determine the constitutionality of President Joe Biden’s action because TC Energy, the pipeline’s developer, had abandoned the project. On June 9, TC Energy announced its intention to permanently halt construction of the pipeline, saying it would focus on other projects.

This is bullshit. Of course it abandoned the project — THE PIPELINE PERMIT WAS CANCELLED. What were they supposed to do, hang around and hope?

The Defenestration Of Dr. Robert Malone

COVID Vax: What Should Have Been Obvious

Why omicron variant symptoms are more dangerous compared to previous COVID-19 strains (Deseret News ) Don’t forget to PANIC!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Keeps Getting Mask-Wearing Fines, But Could Avoid Paying Almost All (Newsweek)

What is ‘flurona’? Coronavirus and influenza co-infections reported as omicron surges. (Washington Post) Just another reason for you to PANIC!

Yale tells students not to dine at restaurants, even outdoors, due to rising Covid cases

Quebec Under Curfew, Unvaxx’d Banned From Buying Booze, Marijuana

Britain Temporarily Suspends PCR Test For Asymptomatic COVID Cases

Omicron Spreads Faster Than Delta Within Vaccinated Individuals: Danish Study

As UK Takes Foot Off Throat, European Authoritarians Escalate Attacks On Unvaxx’d

India Won’t Add Merck’s COVID-19 Pill To National Treatment Protocol, Citing Safety Concerns

Chicago In Chaos As Teachers’ Union Shutters Schools

Watch: CNN Medical Ethics ‘Expert’ Calls For Denying Health Insurance To Unvaccinated “Jerks”

MSNBC ‘Historian’ Equates Jan. 6 to the ‘Holocaust’ and Video of the Camps

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April 16 is Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. The holiday commemorates the date in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, freeing 3,000 slaves in the D.C. area. It has been celebrated in the nation’s capital since 2005.

Because the April 16 holiday this year falls on a Saturday, it will officially be observed on the closest weekday – Friday, April 15 – closing city and federal offices in D.C. That means the tax day deadline is getting pushed back to Monday, April 18 for everyone except residents of Maine and Massachusetts. Residents in those states must file by April 19 since April 18 is Patriots’ Day.

Judge grants relief to Navy SEALs who refused coronavirus vaccine, sued Biden administration

Florida surgeon general blasts ‘testing psychology’ around COVID-19

Gov. DeSantis partly to blame for COVID variants by making it ‘wedge issue,’ Miami Beach mayor suggests

Cloth masks may not protect against omicron, report says

San Francisco now has 3rd highest COVID transmission rate in California (S.F. Chronicle) Gee, those mask and vaccine mandates really work, don’t they?

Starbucks unveils its new employee vaccine policy (CNN) Fully Woke, of course.

The Collins And Fauci Attack On Traditional Public Health

Dr. McCollough Says Outpatient Treatments For COVID-19 Have Been Suppressed

2 Nordea Strategists Suspended For Questioning Vaccines & Criticizing “Lockdownistas”

CDC Admits 61% Of Teens Hospitalized For COVID-19 Had Severe Obesity  All of these mandates totally ignore the risk factors represented by co-morbidities.

Beyond COVID: Biotech And Health Care Trends To Watch In 2022

NYC Mayor Adams Mulls Booster Mandate To Jump-Start Big Apple’s Economy  One of the great delusions of the Crust is that government is in control of the economy and can fine-tune people’s responses to government power-plays; also, they delude themselves that if the government doesn’t do something it will never get done.

DJ Receives Death Threats For Potentially Giving Messi COVID

“Your Kids Are Safer In School” – NYC Reopens Schools As Thousands Of Districts Remain Closed During Omicron Surge

How These Western Countries Suppressed Freedom During COVID-19 Pandemic

They Said They Would Slow The Spread  They lied.

Rand Paul Vows To Bring Fauci To Justice If GOP Wins Back Senate In Midterms

Nets Bury Study Showing Opioids, NOT Covid, Are Top Cause of Death for Young Adults

Biden Wants to, in His Words, ‘Eviscerate the Senate’

Morning Joe Hails Biden’s ‘Christmas Miracle: The White House That Saved Christmas’

Biden Admin Praises Taliban’s ‘Openness’ to Women’s Rights

A pediatrician’s advice to parents of kids under 5 on omicron, travel and daycare (NPR)

January 2 coronavirus pandemic and Omicron variant news (CNN)  Come here for your official Covidian Narrative talking points.

Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic (AP) No one can be allowed to escape the PANIC!

CNN Story Perfectly Captures The Mass Covid Neuroticism Of 2021

Coronamadness in Italy

English Secondary School Pupils Asked To Wear Masks In Classrooms

Watch: Dutch Police Use Attack Dogs Against Anti-Lockdown Protesters

Dr. Fauci Warns CDC Might Change Quarantine Guidelines Yet Again

Ivermectin Goes to Court

Infection Experts: We Will “Never” See The End Of Coronavirus  Oceania has always been at war with COVID.

FDA Approves Pfizer Booster For 12-15 Year Olds, Dismisses Risk Of “Mild” Heart Inflammation

Chicago Teachers Prepare To Strike Over Return to Classroom  Time to leave.

New COVID-19 Variant With 46 Mutations Discovered In Southern France  And here it comes.

Federal Court Hands Victory to Opponents of Vaccine Mandates

LA County Teachers Now Have To Wear ‘High-Quality’ Masks: Health Department

3 omicron variant symptoms you won’t get from the common cold (Deseret News)

COVID-19: As Omicron Spreads, Two New Signs Emerge You May Be Infected With Virus (Stamford Daily Voice)

Eric Adams says “we will not be controlled by crises” in first speech as New York City mayor (CBS) Even while keeping de Blsio’s vaccine mandates in place.

US faces domestic air travel meltdown: FAA warns it could be forced to cancel flights if Omicron hits its 14,000 air traffic controllers and warns to prepare for MORE delays (Daily Mail)

Reflections On Another Year Of Covidian Lies & How The Truth Will Ultimately Prevail

MSNBC Panel: Biden An ‘Albatross’ Around Democrat Necks In the Midterms!

Biden Wants To ‘Woke’ Up Your Doctor

“A Scandal-Free Biden Administration”: The Media Celebrates A Year Free From Political Scandal And Press Scrutiny  Ignoring Afghanistan. And COVID.

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Yesterday, I had to take an antibody test in order to get into the studio in Austin. The good news is that my natural immunity from my last round of COVID is robust – with IgA and even IgM Antibodies present.

This brings me again to one of my biggest issues with the public policy response. Natural immunity equals or trumps immunity from the genetic vaccines, because the natural immune response is broad (against the all 29 proteins of the SAVS-CoV-2 virus) and appears to hold up better against Omicron. This sustained and robust natural immunity also applies to children. We all know it. Why won’t our government and the main stream media admit it?

Why is it that the CDC website that lists 146 million people having already had COVID-19 in the USA has not been updated since October 2, 2021? A quick, back of the napkin calculation projects at least another 20-30 million have had COVID since then. Bringing the number of people who have had COVID to around 170 million. Well over half the people in the USA.

They never will, so long as Big Pharma holds their purse strings. KA-CHING!

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Paul Pelosi has proven himself a prolific stock trader, so much so that social investing app Iris allows users to track their trades and be notified every time he makes a purchase so that they can do the same.

‘Every single stock she [Pelosi, through her husband] has bought in the last two years has gone up significantly,’ Christopher Josephs, cofounder of Iris, told Yahoo.

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The U.S. criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is entering a more contentious phase as it nears the one-year mark, with initial trials set to test the government’s strategy of using provisions first laid out in a 2002 financial-industry law to prosecute some accused of leading the mob.

NASCAR reviewing driver’s paint scheme that references ‘Let’s go Brandon’ (The Hill)

COVID Antiviral Pills Cause Life-Threatening Reactions When Used With Many Common Meds: FDA

Vaccine Scientist Dr. Malone Talks With Joe Rogan About Twitter Ban

Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid-19 despite strict measures  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Unvaccinated Man Feeling Left Out As All His Vaccinated Friends Have COVID Babylon Bee.

Opinion: Most evangelical objections to vaccines have nothing to do with Christianity (Washington Post) Yeah, the WaPo is my go-to source of information on Christianity.

Where Parents Can Get Help with Climate Anxiety  (Wired ‘Science’) Try Hare Krishna.

Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for unemployment benefits (Canada)

COVID, Ivermectin, And ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’: Dr. Robert Malone Gives Blistering Interview To Joe Rogan

“His Skin Was Burning”: Melbourne Man Sets Himself On Fire Screaming About Vaccine Mandates  Pushback against Australia’s descent into fascism.

Omicron Is Creating An Unnecessary Media Hysteria Over Positive Case Numbers…Again

The Mystery of an Electronic ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Road Sign in South Dakota (Daily Beast)

How the migrant crisis escalated in 2021

Let’s Go Brandon store chain to expand in New England: ‘Business is very, very good’

Trump ‘Let‘s Go Brandon’ Figurines Were on Sale at U.S. Military Base (Daily Beast) Shocking!

ABC Saves Biden’s Bacon In Year-End Roundup

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You have to feel sorry for transit agencies. Congress gave them $69 billion COVID relief funds and $40 billion in the infrastructure bill on top of a $14 billion annual federal subsidy. But, due to labor shortages, agencies can’t find enough workers to drive around their nearly empty buses and trains.

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Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data.

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The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that President Biden signed on Monday includes amendments that block him from taking steps to close the notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

He may even have noticed. But he probably won’t remember.

They were so careful, for so long. They got covid anyway. (Washington Post)

Fauci on track to collect largest federal retirement in US history: report

Maryland doctor says people are ‘going to die’ after Biden admin uses faulty data to snub antibody treatments

Florida surgeon general claims feds ‘preventing’ COVID antibody treatments

San Francisco, other Bay Area counties require masks again in offices, gyms amid omicron surge

Video shows cops kick mom and child from NYC restaurant over vaccine mandate

Trump fires up vaccine tensions (The Hill)

Omicron cannot escape T cells; boosters protect households from Omicron (Reuters)

These COVID antibodies could stop the omicron variant (Deseret News)

MSNBC anchor mocked as ‘shamelessly neurotic,’ ’embarrassing’ for calling herself a ‘Fauci groupie’

Seriously, Upgrade Your Face Mask (New York Magazine) You can’t signal your virtue without a face mask!

Defiant Gothamites show COVID panic’s days may finally be numbered

Marines “Crushed” By Vax Mandate As “Thousands” Denied Religious Exemptions In “Political Purge”

Canada Cancels Unvaccinated Joe Rogan: Can’t Attend His Own Sold-Out Show

China Publicly Shames Suspects Accused Of Violating COVID Border Controls

After Thousands Of Parents Refused To Comply, California School District Reverses Child Jab Mandate

Scots Urged Not To Evade COVID Rules By Celebrating New Year In England

Have The “Pandemics Of 2022” Already Started?

The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever  (Wired ‘Science’)

Joe Rogan: “I’m Not Vaccinated, I’m Not Going To Get Vaccinated, I have Antibodies, It Doesn’t Make Any Sense”

Britain Erects Field Hospitals As Daily World COVID Cases Top 1 Million For 3rd Straight Day  Boy, those lockdowns and mask mandates really work, don’t they?

Netherlands Announces Plan To Dole Out 6 Vaccine Doses

As US COVID Cases Hit Record High, CDC Admits Hospitalizations & Deaths Remain “Comparatively Low”

Stanford requires booster shots for all students

CDC Director Admits Latest COVID Restrictions Based On What Government “Thought People Would Be Able To Tolerate”

Fauci Admits ‘Follow The Science’ Is Now ‘Follow The Political Science’ After CDC Rule Changes

Tyrus blasts ‘excuses’ for Kamala Harris’ perceived failures: ‘When does that stop?’

Kamala Harris: Heated Charlamagne tha God exchange was result of ‘frustration’

China Says US Officials Applied For Visas To Attend Olympics In ‘Double Faced’ Move

Nets Ignore Report That Biden Admin Refused Offer to Secure COVID Tests

“If You Call Him A Leader”: You Know It’s Bad When Greta Thunberg Slams Biden

 Biden Walks Back Diplomatic Boycott of Winter Olympics  Even virtue-signaling is too much effort.

Kamala Harris’ ‘Biggest Failure’? Where to Begin?  Humping Willie Brown?

‘Bidenflation’ Is Systematically Destroying The Middle Class

Constitutional Peril in Defense Secretary’s Straw Man on Extremism in Military

Killing Keystone XL: How Biden Destroyed American Energy Independence

Kamala Harris says ‘democracy’ is biggest national security threat in CBS interview

Gun control advocates express disappointment with Biden (The Hill)

NASCAR driver who unintentionally sparked ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant says corporations don’t want to sponsor him

“I Told You So” – Larry Summers Gloats About Being Right On Inflation

Kamala Keeps Digging

Why omicron variant symptoms are so similar to common cold symptoms (Deseret News) Yet another reason to PANIC!

Omicron is here. What are your treatment options if you get Covid-19? (Vox)

3 COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t stop omicron variant, BioNTech leader says (Deseret News) So I guess it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Candace Owens Tells Fans to Take Quack Cure That Turns Skin Blue (Daily Beast)

Fauci: Removing masks on airplanes ‘not something we should even be considering’ It would undermine the PANIC!

Man sentenced to one year in prison for attacking store worker over mask

Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex

Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vaccine neutralization

Farewell, University of California

A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers  Fine ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

A super-spreading event of Omicron amongst triple-vaccinated healthcare workers  Certainly not in the eyes of the gubmint.

Fauci Says ‘Masks Forever’ On Airplanes

Experts: DeSantis Policies So Bad He’s Now Infecting Record Numbers In California And New York  Babylon Bee.

Former Continental CEO Slams Fauci For ‘Too Much Misinformation’ And ‘Chicken Little’ Response To Omicron

Questioning the Science

“Sit Down Karen!” Woman On Delta Flight Filmed Punching Elderly Man For Briefly Removing Mask

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Californians will ring in the new year with the unfurling of a groundbreaking law that will change how they dispose of their organic waste, particularly leftover food and kitchen scraps.

Senate Bill 1383 requires all residents and businesses to separate such “green” waste from other trash, but the program will be rolled out gradually for homes and businesses in the coming months, with the actual startup date varying, depending on the location of your home or business.

Fines can be levied for failing to separate organic refuse from other trash. But those charges aren’t scheduled to begin until 2024. CalRecycle, the state agency overseeing the change, has lots of information about the new requirements on its website.

Time to leave.

Biden Admin Rejected October Proposal For “Free Rapid Tests For The Holidays”

Omicron symptoms: What we know about illness caused by the new variant (NBC) We know it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Why you should upgrade your mask as the Omicron variant spreads (CNN) Because it’s TIME TO PANIC!

Do masks protect you from the omicron variant? Here’s what we know

21 Masks That Capture the Politics of 2021 (Politico) Highlighting the fact that masks are all about virtue signaling, not safety.

US Warship Stuck In Port After COVID-19 Outbreak Among “100 Percent Immunized” Crew  Great ‘vaccines’ ya got there, bubba.

Marines Have Now Booted 169 For Vaccine Refusal – All Religious Exemptions Denied

How can Moderna and Pfizer adjust vaccines for omicron? A microbiologist answers 5 questions  Everything will be okay if you just PANIC!

CNN Cries ‘Fake News’ to Accurately Say Biden Has More Covid Deaths Than Trump

Carefully Cultivated Delusional Hysteria: A Tool that must be Continuously Exercised

Anger over mask mandates, other covid rules, spurs states to curb power of public health officials

UK Mulls Door-To-Door Vaccination Squads

Covid Common Sense

Steve says what we all know to be true.

Earlier today, I wrote a lot of material about Biden’s dementia being “discovered” suddenly by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, but I decided not to publish it. A video took the wind out of my sails. Biden and his wife made the mistake of taking Christmas phone calls on camera. They were pretending to track Santa’s sleigh. One caller said, “Let’s go, Brandon!” Biden said, “Let’s go Brandon. I agree.”

He had no idea what was going on.

If you watch the video, you will also see Jill Biden coaching her husband. Even Jimmy Carter didn’t need that.

Should Americans ditch their holiday plans? Maybe that’s the wrong question (The Guardian) Few people have more experience with wrong questions than Robert Reich.

Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care (BBC)

Fauci warns Americans not to invite unvaccinated relatives for the holidays

7 Staffers In Top Pentagon Delegation Test Positive For Covid, Despite All Being Vaxxed  That’s some fine ‘vaccine’ ya got there, bubba.

Pregnancy App Censoring COVID Vaccine Discussions

an Francisco Cracks Down On Maskless Shoplifting

Australia’s Chief Pharmacist Says Public Needs To Accept Boosters & Mask Mandates For “Many Years” To Come

70% Of London’s COVID Hospitalisations Diagnosed AFTER Being Admitted For Other Ailments

Christmas Eve Travel Chaos: Hundreds Of Flights Canceled Due To Staffing Shortages

The Collins crock: China edition

Watch: MSNBC ‘Doctor’ Calls For Denying Medical Care To The Unvaccinated

White House Abandons Southern African Travel Ban As Okinawa Outbreak Strains Ties With Japan

This Will Really Ruin Anthony Fauci’s Xmas

Vaccines Do Not Stop COVID-19 Spread As Governments Claim: Legal Advocacy Group

Alarming New Study Finds That Everyone Who Gets COVID Will Die At Some Point

South Africa Eases COVID Restrictions After Omicron Peaks

Media Falsely Reports Texas Man Died From Omicron While Government Officials Refuse To Say

Just in Time for Christmas, NY Times Stirs Up Omicron Panic: ‘Reconsider’ Family Visits

Early studies suggest a reduced risk of Covid-19 hospitalization when infected with Omicron compared to Delta

Omicron wave appears milder, but concern remains (BBC)

Omicron variant less severe than delta, early UKstudies suggest (Washington Post)

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant (CNN)

Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies say (AP)

While omicron explodes around the world, covid cases in Japan keep plummeting and no one knows exactly why (Washington Post)

24 States Sue Biden Admin Over COVID-19 Mandates For Children, Staff In ‘Head Start’ Education Program

University Of California Fires Director Of Ethics Program for Defying COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

New York Lawmaker Pulls Public Health Detainment Bill, Blames ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

Vaccination and the Contemptible Dr. Fauci

“No Country Can Boost Its Way Out” – WHO Warns Biden Plan Could “Prolong” Pandemic

Sports Anchors Disgusted Unvaxed Kyrie Irving Will Play For Nets Again

Germany Confirms First Omicron Death While Italy Revives Outdoor Mask Mandate

Fauci: If Your Family Member Is Unvaxx’d, Tell Them Not To Show Up

More Than $100 Billion Was Stolen From Pandemic Relief Funds, Secret Service Says

Steve Bannon: “War On The Unvaxx’d Is About To Commence”

Democrats Insist That True Vaccines Haven’t Been Tried Yet  Babylon Bee.

The Big Government COVID-19 Lie

Lab Leak ‘Is Now the Most Likely Origin of Covid’ – MIT Scientist Tells UK MPs

After weeks walking, Mexico migrant caravan splits up on buses headed north (Reuters) The photo op is over. Looks as if the Mexican government is facilitating this new invasion. Of course, nothing will be done about that.

Thousands of Haitians Have Been Admitted Into the U.S. This Week, Report Says

ABC Grills Biden on Covid ‘Failure’: ‘How Did You Get It Wrong?’

Biden EPA Mandates New Regulations To Force Electric Vehicle Transition

Biden Emerges as Progressive Government’s Mr. Bad Example

LIE OF THE YEAR: ‘I Will Shut Down The Virus’

Sen. Paul Details $52 Billion Federal “Waste” In Annual ‘Festivus Report’

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In Michigan, the state’s civil rights agency said proposed maps of legislative districts “do not measure up to the requirements of the law.” In Pennsylvania, Republican lawmakers complained about an “extreme partisan gerrymander.” And in Virginia, incumbents and potential challengers scrambled to work with proposed district maps.

In theory, new bureaucracies to draw up maps for congressional and legislative districts were supposed to save democracy from politics and block the practice of gerrymandering.

But this month has seen controversies on multiple fronts regarding the independent redistricting commissions involved.

Saw that comin’.

“California’s independent redistricting commission yields more disproportionate representation than most states,” Watson told The Daily Signal. “California Democratic Party-aligned advocacy groups lobbied the commission.”

Similarly, redistricting commissions in Arizona and Michigan have been “besieged by shadowy pressure campaigns,” The New York Times reported.

The Times noted a string of problems in other states that use a redistricting commission even as New York’s Democrat-controlled state Legislature was expected to ignore its advisory committee, just as Utah’s Republican Legislature did.

Ohio’s Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the independent commission with primary responsibility for redistricting.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I’ll refrain from repeating my explanation of how ‘gerrymandering’ improves democracy rather than the opposite, and from pointing out that the only people who profit from ‘competitive districts’ are Narrative Media who can gin up attention from the ‘horse race’.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has introduced legislation that would game the nation’s regulatory system. Under her bill, regulations primarily would be based on studies that support expanding the regulatory power of government agencies.

Among many other troubling things, Jayapal’s bill would require agencies to publicly label studies and research submitted and developed by regulated entities—including property owners, farmers, truckers, and local governments—as having a conflict of interest.

It’s not clear how one’s own research reflects any conflicts of interest. Apparently, it’s a conflict when research conflicts with the agency’s interest.

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

President Biden gave his speech (cough, cough) on what my friend Kevin Roche refers to as the the Moronic Variant yesterday. He read from the teleprompter in his accustomed style and even took a few questions at the conclusion of his remarks. The White House has posted a transcript under the heading “Remarks by President Biden on the Fight Against COVID-?19.”

Having attributed responsibility for the Covid deaths that occurred last year to President Trump — I thought that was insanely stupid, but that what he did — Biden is in a bad spot now. Deaths attributed to the epidemic this year are set to exceed deaths last year. He promised to stop the virus and he has failed. Now he’s blaming and shaming and talking. Lots of talking. It doesn’t all add up, but he has achieved a limited form of clarity.

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The systemic damage done to the world’s democracies during the COVID-19 pandemic was so great that it is tempting to imagine the hidden hand of powerful figures orchestrating the Great Reset. The horrifically costly NPIs were so obviously futile that there had to be deliberate organized malice at work to suppress the statistically obvious need to change policy.

There was indeed malice but not of Bond villain caliber. In reality, we put morons in charge and when their failures became evident, they and their moron-adjacent allies in media and academia doubled down and attacked and silenced dissidents. The Great Reset was perhaps merely a secondary infection.

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown addresses anti-Biden ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chant

“They’re Totally Confused”: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Chaos Leaves Employers With “Whiplash”

Presidential Address Lasts Hours As Biden Keeps Trying To Say ‘Omicron’ Correctly Babylon Bee.