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Work is being carried out to develop coronavirus freedom ‘passports’ that will allow those who have tested negative to enter pubs, schools and workplaces.
Two firms have been awarded Government contracts for exploratory work on a new app that would allow people to prove they do not have Covid. Continue reading “Firms start work on ‘freedom passports’: Documents would allow people who have tested negative for Covid-19 to enter pubs, schools and workplaces”
Washington Examiner – by Tim Gruver
Oregon lawmakers saw protests inside and outside of the state Capitol building as they convened on Monday to vote on pandemic relief amid the waning days of 2020.
Oregon Sen. Dallas Heard, R-Roseburg, held his own protest on the floor of the Senate as the day began, removing his mask before his fellow lawmakers in defiance of health restrictions requiring facial coverings in the building. Continue reading “Protests rock Oregon Capitol as lawmakers convene hectic special session”
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The manhunt continues today for Koby Francis, who Allegheny County Police say is a “danger to the community” after shooting a McKeesport police officer on Sunday.
According to court paperwork, Francis, 22, is accused of shooting Officer Geriasimos Athans, who is 32-years-old and is a four-year veteran of the McKeesport Police Department. Continue reading “Manhunt Intensifies For Koby Francis After Shooting Of McKeesport Officer Geriasimos Athans”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
The bipartisan $900 billion coronavirus aid bill is just one giant F-you to American taxpayers.
“Family members of unauthorized immigrants are now eligible to get stimulus checks under the $900 billion deal reached last night,” the Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman reported Monday. “That eligibility is retroactive, so adults excluded last time could get up to $1800 now.” Continue reading “$900B COVID-19 Aid Bill Will Give Households With Illegal Aliens Up to $1,800 Checks While U.S. Citizens Get Only $600”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJHL) – Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced Monday that the Commonwealth’s statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. capitol overnight.
Lee’s statue had stood in the hall for 111 years as one of Virginia’s statues. Virginia’s other statue is a depiction of George Washington. Both statues were added to the hall in 1909. Continue reading “Statue of Robert E. Lee removed from U.S. capitol overnight”
Just in time for Christmas:
The Legislative Council has sent draft language for a proposed law that would transfer control of the Austin Police Department to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
One way or another we will pass a law to keep Austin safe.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 21, 2020
As Congress votes on legislation that would include $600 stimulus checks for Americans amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a former Democratic congressman proposed to add another few hundred dollars on top of that for Americans who vaccinate.
“Imagine if we made that $900 or $1000, and $600 went to everyone, and another $300 or $400 went to when you received the vaccine,” John Delaney, a representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2019 and a 2020 presidential candidate, said on Yahoo Finance Live. “Ideas like that should be put in the mix because it takes a stimulus check, which is important, and it also creates an incentive for people to get vaccinated, which is incredibly important.” Continue reading “Stimulus checks should be topped off with $300 for Americans who vaccinate against coronavirus, John Delaney argues”
Russia acted with impunity when it hacked U.S. government servers in a global cyber-espionage campaign and could do far more damage next time — like cutting off the nation’s water and electricity supply, GOP Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Utah senator said the massive cyberattack discovered earlier this week, which officials say could be the biggest hack on the American government ever, must be met with a vigorous response and without delay. Continue reading “Russia could cut off U.S. food and water supply in next cyberattack, Romney says”
Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As of Dec. 18, 3,150 people reported what the agency terms “Health Impact Events” after getting vaccinated.
Continue reading “CDC Issues New Guidelines, Launches Probe After 1000s Negatively-Affected Following COVID-19 Vaccination”
Oregon’s Democratic Governor Kate Brown announced this week that she is extending her state of emergency declaration until March, claiming that “these are the darkest days of this pandemic.”
The declaration was set to expire on January 2, but it has now been extended sixty more days to March 3. The state of emergency declaration allows Brown to enact executive orders banning business operations and closing schools. Continue reading “Oregon’s Democratic Governor Extends Emergency Lockdowns Until March”
With the latest, $900 billion covid-stimulus deal now done (which unless the Democrats win the Georgia Senate runoffs in 2 weeks will be the final covid stimulus bill according to Goldman), attention turns to what’s actually in it.
First: the good news – the bill will include a fresh round of benefits for small businesses as well as the usual one-time pittance for peasants, amounting to a $600 check. Here are the key components: Continue reading “$15BN For Airlines, Corporate Meal Tax Breaks And Other Pork: What’s Inside The $900BN Stimulus BIll”
Christianity Today – by Douglas Estes
Jupiter isn’t a star. Neither is Saturn. But for one night only, on the winter solstice, they will be.
If we look up at the sky at the right time, we will see the great conjunction of 2020. Low on the horizon for most observers, Jupiter and Saturn have been visibly moving toward each other for days. On the evening of December 21, these two planets will be so close that they will appear to the naked eye as almost one—a bright star in the heavens. Continue reading “Why We Keep Asking about the Christmas Star”
While lockdowns were supposed to be temporary — initially just a couple of weeks to “flatten the curve” — nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s still no end in sight. Thanksgiving was canceled in many parts of the U.S., and many government leaders are now urging residents to cancel their Christmas celebrations too.
What many still don’t realize is that the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has little to do with the spread of an actual virus, and everything to do with the planned global takeover and implementation of a technocratic agenda known as the Great Reset. Continue reading “A Year Without Santa Claus?”
Market Watch – by Quentin Fottrell
The wait is over.
“I’m terrified.” They were the words of Christine Gaydos, a 31-year-old new mother and stagehand in In New Castle, Del., in the weeks before November’s presidential election.
She had been out of work since March and has watched her monthly household income drop from approximately $6,000 to $1,420. “There are millions more like me. It seems like people like us are getting forgotten about right now,” she added. Continue reading “‘More help is on the way’: The long wait is over for second stimulus check, but will $600 be enough?”
Money is manipulated by the complicated movements of securities and the manufacturing of derivatives and not actual goods, at least not in this country. General Electric doesn’t hardly make anything anymore, they’re now a complicated money machine keeping the lid on the American Workers happiness and well being.
General Electric is just one of many financial Institutions no longer manufacturing goods, just manufacturing the demise of the American worker and their happiness, through complicated maneuvering of cash and securities to appease the rich. Continue reading “United States Is A Financial Institution Based On The Insecurities Of The American Worker, Financial Control Over Us To Keep The Lid On”
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
“The highest wisdom, and the best of mankind ever knew, was the realization that he only earns his freedom and existence, who daily conquers them anew.” Continue reading “Quotes by Johann von Goethe”
Struggling restaurant owners city-wide are permanently banning New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo from setting foot into their establishments.
Effective immediately.
According to bar owner Larry Baird “ He can eat at some shitty roadside diner outside of Albany but he will not be served anywhere in New York City, known universally as the world’s greatest dining destination! If he has to use the restroom he can go pee on my street-corner! That’s what he wants anyway!” Continue reading “NYC Restaurants to Ban Cuomo from Dining”
Some of the Covid-19 vaccines currently in development could increase the risk of acquiring HIV, warned a group of researchers in the The Lancet medical journal Monday, potentially leading to an increase in infections as vaccines are rolled out to vulnerable populations around the world.
The researchers warn of a “cautionary tale” from efforts to create an HIV vaccine over a decade ago, where a promising vaccine candidate actually increased the risk of some men catching the virus.
Continue reading “Researchers Warn Some Covid-19 Vaccines Could Increase Risk Of HIV Infection”
The predator might soon become the prey if Florida scientists can confirm that Burmese pythons — an extremely invasive species in the Everglades — are safe for us to eat.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is collaborating with the Florida Department of Health to investigate the mercury levels in pythons to determine if they can be safely consumed. If so, the snakes may soon end up on restaurant menus and dinner tables across the state. Continue reading “Pythons might become a new menu item in Florida if scientists can confirm they’re safe to eat”