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romney
September 13, 2023
News
Politics

No More Mitt! Romney Won’t Seek 2024 Re-Election.

Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney, 76, announced on Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in 2024, bringing an end to his decades-long career as a milquetoast Republican who has, more often than not, empowered and enabled the political left in America.

The news comes shortly after Utah Republicans signaled the need for fresh representation, unhappy with Romney’s antagonistic behavior towards former President Donald J. Trump.

Citing his age as rationale, Romney said he would be in his mid-80s by the end of another Senate term. In a video posted to X, he took shots at both Joe Biden and Donald Trump:

Romney’s decision comes as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to open a new front on Donald Trump, declaring him too old for office, and even criticizing the nation’s founders for failing to prohibit people over the age of 80 from assuming the Oval Office.

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Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney, 76, announced on Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in 2024, bringing an end to his decades-long career as a milquetoast Republican who has, more often than not, empowered and enabled the political left in America. show more
human embryos
September 13, 2023
Jake Welch
Health
News
TECH

EU Parliament Legislates for The Sale of Human Embryos.

Members of the European Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new “Substances of Human Origin” (SoHO) framework, which permits the sale of human embryos and degrades human life to be the equivalent of any other cells or tissue.

The measures are set to regulate the supply and donations of so-called “substances,” such as blood, cells, and tissue, used for medically assisted reproduction as well as other procedures, including transfusions and transplants. They also allow people to receive “compensation or reimbursement for losses or expenses incurred” when making a donation.

The measures passed in the parliament by 483 votes to 52 on Tuesday, despite amendments proposed by conservatives to prevent the use of fetuses for financial gain being voted down. Those who voted in favor also ignored the appeals made by the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, which argued: “Human life is not just a ‘substance of human origin’…human life from the beginning, including unborn life ‘possesses its own dignity, right, and independent right of protection.'”

Director of the NBIC Ethics think tank, Laetitia Pouliquen, also warned after the vote passed that it would create a “highest-bidder body and fertility market” across the continent.

The new framework will be sent to the European Council, with further discussions to start at the beginning of the next year.

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Members of the European Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new "Substances of Human Origin" (SoHO) framework, which permits the sale of human embryos and degrades human life to be the equivalent of any other cells or tissue. show more
biden media
September 13, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
News
Politics

Biden Leans on Media to Attack Republicans Over Impeachment.

Joe Biden is using the apparatus of government to lean on legacy media outlets, telling them how they should be covering the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into the business dealings of the President, his son Hunter, and brother James, declaring it is “time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans”.

Biden special assistant Ian Sams has written to outlets including CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times insisting that the impeachment inquiry is “based on lies” and that “[c]overing impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable.”

Sams, whose employers are the people in power, complained that “in the modern media environment, where every day liars and hucksters peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox, process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions, only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth.”

The intervention comes as a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that the U.S. government violated the First Amendment, which protects freedom of the press and freedom of speech, by putting “unrelenting pressure” on social media platforms to suppress “millions of protected free speech postings” about the FBI and Hunter, COVID-19, and vaccines, among other topics.

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Joe Biden is using the apparatus of government to lean on legacy media outlets, telling them how they should be covering the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into the business dealings of the President, his son Hunter, and brother James, declaring it is "time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans". show more
wuhan lab origins
September 13, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News
Podcast
Science
World

Whistleblower: CIA Bribed ‘Experts’ to Opposite Wuhan Lab COVID Origins.

A whistleblower has told the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) effectively bribed researchers who said the Wuhan virus originated in a lab to change their opinion.

The whistleblower, described as a “highly credible senior-level CIA officer” by the House Oversight Committee, alleges that six of seven officers assigned to investigate the origins of COVID-19 initially concluded that it “likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China” – but they were “offered financial incentives… to change their conclusion in favor of a zoonotic origin.”

The committee chairmen – Reps. Wenstrup (R-OH) and Turner (R-OH) – have written to the CIA requesting that Andrew Makridis, the CIA’s former Chief Operating Officer (COO), submit to a “voluntary transcribed interview,” and asked for all documents and communications between state officials and the COVID Discovery Team.

“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis. The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” wrote the chairmen.

They are particularly interested in communications related to the team’s “pay history, to include the awarding of any type of financial or performance-based incentive/financial bonus”.

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A whistleblower has told the House of Representatives' Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) effectively bribed researchers who said the Wuhan virus originated in a lab to change their opinion. show more
putin nuclear
September 13, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
World

Putin ‘Caught’ UK-Trained Forces Trying to Sabotage Nuclear Plant.

British-trained Ukrainian saboteurs were allegedly caught on Russian soil on a mission to “damage one of our nuclear power plants, blow up… high-voltage transmission lines, with the aim of disrupting the power plant’s operation,” according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned such operations could “provoke us into taking retaliatory actions against Ukrainian nuclear facilities”.

“Not long ago, on our territory, the Federal Security Service, during an armed confrontation, eliminated several troops and captured the rest,” the Russian president alleged, adding that interrogations had revealed the saboteurs were “trained by British instructors.”

“Do they understand what they are playing with?” Putin asked, claiming this “was not [the Ukrainians’] first attempt” to attack a Russian nuclear plant.

“Does the British government and the Prime Minister know what their intelligence agencies are doing in Ukraine, or are they are clueless?” he continued, adding that he would not be surprised to find “that British intelligence agencies are acting under the instructions of the Americans”.

Putin said the West would claim captured saboteurs “say whatever you want at gunpoint,” but insisted “the leadership of the British intelligence agencies knows that I am telling the truth.”

He reiterated he was “not sure if Britain’s leaders truly understand what is going on,” however.

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British-trained Ukrainian saboteurs were allegedly caught on Russian soil on a mission to "damage one of our nuclear power plants, blow up... high-voltage transmission lines, with the aim of disrupting the power plant’s operation," according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned such operations could "provoke us into taking retaliatory actions against Ukrainian nuclear facilities". show more
biden schumer
September 13, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Schumer: Biden Impeachment is ‘Witch Hunt’.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has ironically labeled the GOP-lead impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden’s crooked financial affairs a ‘witch hunt,’ despite his own party having spent the last eight years politically persecuting former President Donald Trump.

Schumer, who twice voted to impeach the 45th President and was one of the leading proponents of the Russian collusion hoax, told the press after Speaker McCarthy announced the inquiry:

“I think the impeachment inquiry is absurd. The American people want us to do something that will make their lives better, not go off on these chases and witch hunts.”

– Sen. Schumer, September 2023.

“I have sympathy with Speaker McCarthy, he’s in a difficult position. But sometimes you got to tell these people who are way off the deep end, who have no interest in helping the American people, who just want to pursue their own witch hunts—that they can’t go forward,” Schumer added.

Schumer is yet to protest the unprecedented political step of criminally indicting a former U.S. President on four occasions, led by President Biden’s Department of Justice, which has spent a whopping $10 million pursuing Donald Trump.

WATCH: 

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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has ironically labeled the GOP-lead impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden's crooked financial affairs a 'witch hunt,' despite his own party having spent the last eight years politically persecuting former President Donald Trump. show more
gaetz mccarthy
September 13, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Gaetz Blasts McCarthy for 8 Months of Propping Up Biden, Threatens Motion to Vacate.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to blast Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for not upholding his end of a hard-won agreement with conservatives that gave him the speakership.

“The path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into immediate total compliance or remove you, pursuant to a motion to vacate the chair,” Gaetz warned McCarthy, before adding, “I know that Washington isn’t a town where people are known for keeping their word. Speaker McCarthy, I’m here to hold you to yours.”

“The path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into immediate, total compliance or remove you.”

– Matt Gaetz, September 2023.

Amongst Gaetz’s concerns has been McCarthy’s unenthusiastic push for the impeachment of President Joe Biden, despite several House committees presenting mounting evidence that Biden and his family enriched themselves turning his tenure as Vice-President from 2009 to 2017. Additionally, Gaetz believes McCarthy has abandoned conservative efforts to cut reckless spending. In just over two weeks, funding for the federal government will run out – starving the deep state of money – unless Congress passes a continuing resolution to keep the government open while they continue to hammer out twelve major appropriations bills that are expected to be voted on later this Fall.

Earlier this year, Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the House by the new Republican majority after a grueling fifteen rounds of voting. The California Republican faced fierce resistance from conservative members of the Republican House Conference who consider McCarthy to be a political moderate who caves too easily to House Democrats and President Joe Biden. However, after cutting a deal with conservative members, including naming several to the powerful House Rules Committee and lowering the threshold to hold a vote to remove the Speaker to a motion by a single House member, McCarthy was finally able secure the votes to attain the Speakership.

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Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to blast Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for not upholding his end of a hard-won agreement with conservatives that gave him the speakership. show more
iowa
September 13, 2023
News
Politics

DeSantis Blames Founding Fathers for Failing to Age-Disqualify Donald Trump.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has told CBS that former President Donald Trump 77, is too old to serve another four years in the Oval Office. DeSantis said the presidency is not a job for someone in their 80s, and even argued that America’s Founding Fathers were deficient in not adding an upper age restriction to run for the White House.

“We need an energetic president, and I think that if the Founders could kind of look at this again, I do think they probably would have put an age limit on some of these offices,” DeSantis told the corporate media outlet on Tuesday.

DeSantis’s comments are especially bizarre when considering he claims his political hero is President Ronald Reagan, who served until nearly 78, at a time when life expectancy was over half a decade lower than today.

DeSantis’s attacks on failure of the Founding Fathers to preemptively disqualify Trump reveal his increasing desperation, with his chief strategist Jeff Roe admitting two weeks ago that the team only had 60 days left to turn their failing campaign around.

Former President Trump, who is currently leading in the polls, has responded to criticisms of his age, challenging several individuals including Rupert Murdoch to mental acuity tests.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has told CBS that former President Donald Trump 77, is too old to serve another four years in the Oval Office. DeSantis said the presidency is not a job for someone in their 80s, and even argued that America's Founding Fathers were deficient in not adding an upper age restriction to run for the White House. show more

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jab
September 13, 2023
Jake Welch
Health
News

South Korea Compensates Families of Those Who Died After COVID-19 Jab.

South Korean government officials have announced that families will receive up to $22,500 if their relative died within 90 days of the COVID-19 vaccines, irrespective of whether the jab was the confirmed cause of death.

The sum represents a large increase from the initial 10 million won (around $7,500) offered within 42 days of getting the vaccine, as was announced last July. Officials from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency have further explained that these measures apply retroactively.

“Korea was able to achieve a higher inoculation rate compared with the rest of the world because people trusted the state and went to get vaccinated,” stated Rep. Park Dae-chul of the People Power Party about the new measures, before adding: “In this regard, it is the state’s responsibility to tackle the blind spot in helping out those who fell victim to the vaccination policy.”

The South Korean government has accepted around 30 percent of the roughly 96,000 adverse reaction complaints made by the public as of August.

There have been a number of adverse reactions heavily linked to the COVID-19 vaccines, including “reprogramming” children’s immune systems, leprosy, menstrual disturbances, myocarditis, and incurable eyeball clots.

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South Korean government officials have announced that families will receive up to $22,500 if their relative died within 90 days of the COVID-19 vaccines, irrespective of whether the jab was the confirmed cause of death. show more
bidenomics
September 13, 2023
Economy
News

BIDENOMICS: Inflation Up in August.

Inflation in the United States rose by an annual rate of 3.7 percent in August, the second consecutive month of rising costs. The Consumer Price Index, which tracks a basket of goods and services typically purchased by consumers, increased by 0.6 percent from July. The so-called core CPI, which excludes volatile fuel and food costs, rose by 4.3 percent from a year ago. Gasoline prices were the primary contributor to the increase, with housing also playing a role.

The release of the latest inflation data comes just prior to the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting, during which officials will assess price and wage trends to decide whether to raise interest rates or keep them stable. While inflation remains higher than the Fed’s target of 2 percent, analysts believe the cooling trend may influence the central bank to maintain steady rates. Gasoline prices at the pump rose from an average of $3.60 per gallon in July to $3.84 in August, with housing costs also contributing to the overall increase.

Experts note that rent growth is slowing, with median rents falling year-over-year last month. However, it may take several months for these trends to be reflected in the CPI measures that the Fed considers when determining interest rate policy at their upcoming meeting.

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Inflation in the United States rose by an annual rate of 3.7 percent in August, the second consecutive month of rising costs. The Consumer Price Index, which tracks a basket of goods and services typically purchased by consumers, increased by 0.6 percent from July. The so-called core CPI, which excludes volatile fuel and food costs, rose by 4.3 percent from a year ago. Gasoline prices were the primary contributor to the increase, with housing also playing a role. show more