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November 16, 2023
Health
News

TV Star Sues AstraZeneca After Stroke She Claims Was Caused By Vaccine.

Australian theatre actress and vaccination advocate Melle Stewart, known for her roles in productions including Mamma Mia! is suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, claiming she suffered a severe stroke which renders her unable to work after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The 42-year-old performer underwent seizures, lost her speech, and all movement on her right side two weeks later after receiving her first dose of the vaccine in May 2021. Stewart was diagnosed with Vaccine-Induced Thrombocytopenic Thrombosis (VITT), a rare blood-clotting condition recognized by both the manufacturer and regulators as a very rare side effect of the vaccine.

Stewart underwent several treatment procedures, including craniectomy – a three-hour operation to take out a part of her skull to alleviate brain pressure. Surgeons later substituted the removed skull portion with a titanium plate.

She was given £120,000 (A$230,000) by her government as an acknowledgment of the vaccine-induced damage but she, along with her husband, believed it to be insufficient to cover the significant earnings lost due to her inability to work and her husband’s need to be her full-time carer.

In response to Stewart’s legal action, an AstraZeneca spokesman stated: “Patient safety is our highest priority and regulatory authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines.”

Stewart is not alone in launching legal action against the pharmaceutical giant, with multiple other claimants suing the company for compensation, claiming the AstraZeneca vaccine is “defective” after suffering multiple injuries after getting the jab.

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Australian theatre actress and vaccination advocate Melle Stewart, known for her roles in productions including Mamma Mia! is suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, claiming she suffered a severe stroke which renders her unable to work after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. show more
November 16, 2023
Breaking
Corruption

NY Appeals Judge Lifts Trump Gag Order on Engoron’s Far-Left Staff.

A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump’s free speech rights.

Trump’s lawyers, responding to the aforementioned gag order, have filed a lawsuit against Engoron, accusing the trial judge of abuse of power. Following this action, an emergency hearing was set on Thursday afternoon by Judge Friedman in a state appellate courthouse, located several miles away from the ongoing trial.

The central issue at hand pertains to Trump’s claims of improper influence by law clerk Allison Greenfield in the trial. His defense team has frequently highlighted Greenfield during the trial, alleging the former Democratic judicial candidate has assumed an oversized role in the case against the ex-Republican president. Judge Engoron has defended Greenfield’s participation in the trial, responded with fining Trump for perceived violations, and further prohibited lawyers from commenting on “confidential communications” with his staff.

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A New York appeals court judge has lifted a gag order that had previously restrained former president Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers involved in his civil fraud trial. The gag order, imposed last month by trial judge Arthur Engoron and accompanied by a fine of $15,000 for violation, followed after Trump criticized court staff for political bias in asocial media post. The decision to pause the gag order by Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court arrived amid concerns about infringements on Trump's free speech rights. show more
Biden
November 16, 2023
Breaking
Corruption

Joe Biden’s Special Counsel Clears Joe Biden of Mishandling Documents He Had No Authority to Even Have.

A year-long probe into the management of classified documents by President Joe Biden and his staff will likely not result in charges, according to two people close to the investigation.

Special Counsel Robert Hur, along with his team, have been investigating the discovery of classified documents from Biden’s Vice Presidential tenure at his former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, DC, and at his home in Delaware. The Wall Street Journal initially noted that a criminal case was not anticipated, an analysis echoed by CNN.

Although not expected to result in legal action, Hur’s report is reportedly set to critique the handling of sensitive materials by Biden and his team, outlining their findings in significant detail. Despite being unable to give an exact completion date, insiders reveal that Hur’s team aims to finish their report by the end of the year.

The decision to forgo charges may court controversy from former President Donald Trump and his allies. They have frequently compared Hur’s investigation to that of special counsel Jack Smith’s earlier this year, which led to charges against Trump for his own handling of classified documents post-presidency.

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A year-long probe into the management of classified documents by President Joe Biden and his staff will likely not result in charges, according to two people close to the investigation. show more
November 16, 2023
William Upton
Crime
Culture

U.S. City Effectively Bans Public Homosexuality.

In June, the City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee adopted an anti-‘indecent behavior’ ordinance that effectively bans homosexuality along with indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct. The ordinance’s ban on homosexuality appears to have only become public after city officials began enforcing the statute to remove pornographic and lewd books from city libraries.

The Murfreesboro Municipal Code Section 21-72 defines “sexual conduct” as “…acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.” To remove books from city libraries, however, officials have used the Code’s definition of “harmful to minors” which includes:

(2) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and, (3) the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

In October, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the city on behalf of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), asking a federal court to declare the ordinance ‘unconstitutional’.  According to the ACLU “…the Murfreesboro mayor and city manager engaged in a yearlong, concerted anti-LGBTQ+ campaign to chill TEP and Murfreesboro residents’ protected speech and expression, culminating in the city establishing an official policy prohibiting the issuance of permits to TEP.”

In late October, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. issued a temporary order blocking Murfreesboro city officials from enforcing the ordinance to ban the BoroPride Festival.

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In June, the City of Murfreesboro, Tennessee adopted an anti-'indecent behavior' ordinance that effectively bans homosexuality along with indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct. The ordinance's ban on homosexuality appears to have only become public after city officials began enforcing the statute to remove pornographic and lewd books from city libraries. show more
dark money
November 16, 2023
News
Politics

Leftist Dark Money Network Raised $1.3 Billion to Fund Progressive Activism in 2022.

The New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, Hopewell Fund, and North Fund managed by Arabella Advisors raised $1.3 billion in anonymous donations last year, according to new tax filings.

The Arabella network has emerged as a major left-wing dark money conduit in recent years, with each fund able to hide its donors while acting as a sponsor for other left-wing nonprofits, thus avoiding the submission of revealing tax documents to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

“The North Fund is an advocacy nonprofit collaborating with community leaders and organizers to engage Americans in their democracy and fighting for equality across the country,” said one of the funds when quizzed on its activity. “We accomplish this through our fiscal sponsorship model, which allowed us to support a broad range of impactful partners in 2022,” it added.

On several occasions the funds wired substantial sums of money to each other, making it even harder to trace their activities.

“In 2022 alone, these groups spent $1.4 billion to push our country toward more extreme causes and candidates,” commented Americans for Public Trust director Caitlin Sutherland.

“As the 2024 election cycle ramps up, the American people deserve to know just how much influence the foreign-backed Arabella network has on our local, state, and federal elections.”

The network has been used by foreign billionaires to influence American politics, and has links to a lawfare campaign to ban Donald Trump from running for the presidency in 2024.

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The New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Windward Fund, Hopewell Fund, and North Fund managed by Arabella Advisors raised $1.3 billion in anonymous donations last year, according to new tax filings. show more
Pfizer
November 16, 2023
Fact Check
Media
News

Pfizer & CCP Marketing Partner Is Top Investor in Govt-Backed ‘Fact Check’ Network.

NewsGuard, pitched to social media corporations by former Wall Street Journal publisher as a “vaccine against misinformation,” boasts French multinational advertising and public relations company Publicis Groupe as its biggest investor. Publicis represents a host of corporate and government clients including pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose coronavirus vaccine has been questioned by news outlets given a low rating by NewsGuard.

NewsGuard has a BrandGuard offering for advertisers, which strongly discourages the placement of adverts on websites it deems to be spreading “fake news” or other alleged disinformation and misinformation.

Critics note NewsGuard often appears to be selective in its choice of targets, however, with the likes of The New York Times being given a “perfect” rating despite its role in spreading false and partisan information from anonymous sources during the Russiagate hoax.

In addition to Pfizer, Publicis also represents ByteDance, owner of the TikTok app which many believe to be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tool for psychological warfare and propaganda.

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NewsGuard, pitched to social media corporations by former Wall Street Journal publisher as a "vaccine against misinformation," boasts French multinational advertising and public relations company Publicis Groupe as its biggest investor. Publicis represents a host of corporate and government clients including pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose coronavirus vaccine has been questioned by news outlets given a low rating by NewsGuard. show more
November 16, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
TECH
War

WATCH: Bin Laden’s Letter to America Goes Viral on TikTok, With Gen Zers Apparently Approving Of It.

Thousands of videos are being shared on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) TikTok app, showing young American users lauding Osama bin Laden’s infamous ‘Letter to America’, suggesting the al-Qaeda leader was right about the West, while encouraging others to read the screed.

As of the time of publication, TikTok videos with the hashtag #LetterToAmerica have been viewed well over seven million times, with most of the videos expressing surprise, feigned or otherwise, at how much they agree with the deceased terrorist, and urging people to read it.

In the letter, the Saudi-born sheikh laid out a number of grievances against the United States, including the way Jews allegedly “control [its] policies, media and economy” and the “Satanic American Invention” of the AIDS virus.

Bin Laden’s letter, published in full in the Editor’s Notes below, is an Islamic supremacist tract which intentionally muddles anti-colonial and non-interventionist sentiment with pro-Sharia invocations.

The Chinese app has driven so much interest in the letter that the Guardian website felt compelled to remove it 20 years after publication.

WATCH:

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Thousands of videos are being shared on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) TikTok app, showing young American users lauding Osama bin Laden's infamous 'Letter to America', suggesting the al-Qaeda leader was right about the West, while encouraging others to read the screed. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
The full “Letter to America” by Osama Bin Laden can be read, below
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November 16, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Anti-Israel Mob Says 90 Protesters Injured By Capitol Hill Cops During Siege of Democrat HQ.

The organizers of a mob that attempted to barricade House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats inside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington D.C. say “over 90” of their demonstrators were injured by police on Wednesday. They claim to have gathered for a “candelit vigil” to demand Democrats back a ceasefire in Gaza, but the situation deteriorated rapidly.

“Protestors were choked and violently handled by multiple office[r]s at once, thrown against the wall, then grabbed and picked up and thrown down the front stairs,” the Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, and If Not Now groups alleged in a joint statement.

“Dozen[s] of people were kicked, kneed and punched in the face by police officers,” they added, in testimony strikingly similar to that of January 6th protesters.

U.S. Capitol Police, however, say roughly 150 demonstrators were “illegally and violently protesting,” with at least six officers injured.

Some Congressmen were evacuated from the DNC headquarters during the protest, while others were herded into the basement by law enforcement.

Grassroots Democrat activists, particularly those from an Islamic background and Generation Z, are becoming increasingly frustrated with 80-year-old Joe Biden’s refusal to back a ceasefire and broad support for Israel.

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The organizers of a mob that attempted to barricade House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats inside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington D.C. say "over 90" of their demonstrators were injured by police on Wednesday. They claim to have gathered for a "candelit vigil" to demand Democrats back a ceasefire in Gaza, but the situation deteriorated rapidly. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
November 15, 2023
William Upton
News
War

Top Israeli Politicians Demand Europe & U.S. Take Gaza Refugees.

Israeli politicians Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak say they believe Western governments should open their borders and welcome refugees fleeing the Israeli ground assault underway in Gaza. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Danon and Ben-Barak – both lawmakers serving in Israel’s Knesset – argue European governments and the United States are ideal for taking in refugees since they have “a long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts.”

“Global organizations with experience settling refugees should facilitate the relocation of Gaza residents who wish to move to countries willing to accept them,” write Danon and Ben-Barak. “We simply need a handful of the world’s nations to share the responsibility of hosting Gazan residents. Even if countries took in as few as 10,000 people each, it would help alleviate the crisis.”

Israel has been left scrambling to figure out a solution to the looming refugee crisis in Gaza after neighboring Arab states declined take anymore Palestinians in. A month ago, Jordan’s King Abdullah II rejected the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s proposal for neighboring Arab states to take in new refugees, calling it a “red line” and adding: “There will be NO refugees in Jordan and there will be NO refugees in Egypt.”  The influx of Palestinian refugees into Lebanon between 1948 and 1975 played a major role in pushing the country into a civil war which effectively ended the country’s Christian majority.

While a majority of Americans continue to support Israel’s military response to the brutal October 7th Hamas terrorist attack, Israeli politicians demanding the American government take in Palestinian refugees could change that. According to Gallup, 41 percent of Americans want the rate of legal immigration into the united states reduced from current levels. Just 26 percent want to see it increase.

Danon previously served as Israel’s representative to the United Nations.

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Israeli politicians Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak say they believe Western governments should open their borders and welcome refugees fleeing the Israeli ground assault underway in Gaza. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Danon and Ben-Barak – both lawmakers serving in Israel's Knesset – argue European governments and the United States are ideal for taking in refugees since they have "a long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts." show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
A total non-starter, of course
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November 15, 2023
William Upton
Immigration
War

Michigan City Raises Palestinian Flags In Solidarity With Hamas-Controlled Gaza.

The Michigan city of Dearborn Heights, a part of the Detroit metropolitan area, has raised two Palestinian flags on either side of the city’s ‘welcome’ sign, apparently “highlighting the city’s support for the people of Palestine.” Boasting a population of nearly 60,000, roughly 25 percent of the city’s residents are of Arab extraction.

The larger neighboring city of Dearborn, with a population around roughly 100,000, has been derisively referred to “Dearbornistan” by various politicians and critics of Islam over the years. As of the 2020 Census, residents of Middle Eastern or North African background make up a majority of the Dearborn’s population at 54.5 percent.

President Joe Biden recently appointed Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders program. Hammoud, known for his staunch anti-Israel positions, has excused the Hamas terror attack on the Jewish state “inevitable”. In a previous social media statement, the Democratic mayor called for the eradication of the Jewish state. Both Hammoud and Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlabi – whose district includes both Dearborn Heights and the City of Dearborn, have continued to repeat the debunked claim that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for the explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.

Calls for violence at antisemitic rallies in cities like Dearborn have drawn harsh criticism from U.S. lawmakers in the wake of the barbaric October 7th Hamas terror attack against Israel. Pro-Hamas demonstrators in Minneapolis, Minnesota – which hosts a sizable Somali Muslim population – attacked an elderly driver. Zach Metzger – one of the demostration organizers who is a radical, anti-police, far-left candidate for Minneapolis City Council – later tried to claim that the elderly man was the aggressor.

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The Michigan city of Dearborn Heights, a part of the Detroit metropolitan area, has raised two Palestinian flags on either side of the city's 'welcome' sign, apparently "highlighting the city's support for the people of Palestine." Boasting a population of nearly 60,000, roughly 25 percent of the city's residents are of Arab extraction. show more