Film Industry Rakes in $1.2 Billion From Federal Contracts
"While thoughts of the film industry evoke images of the historic Hollywood sign on Mount Lee overlooking the Los Angeles stars below, some film companies have worked with the U.S. government for years, collecting taxpayer money.
Between 2008 and 2021, $1.2 billion in taxpayer money was spent on video production and distribution and other related filming categories, according to our auditors at OpenTheBooks, who looked at federal spending records from that time...Read all!
Michigan School "Equity Challenge" Demonstrates Leftist Stranglehold on Education - The New American
"A public-school district in Michigan has made “wokeness” its official policy and has taken it to a whole new level.
The Farmington School District held a “21-day Equity Challenge” for its faculty and staff during the month of November — covering themes of race and class privilege, implicit bias, identity and intersectionality, and avoiding microaggressions...Read all!
A U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania might regret voting for a "defund the police" bill after she was the victim of an armed carjacking incident in Philadelphia.
Police say Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at about 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday after attending a tour with other members of Congress.
"The summer of 2020 wasn’t just about riots — it was the height of statue frenzy as well.
...It was problematic, you see, because the statue of Abraham Lincoln helping lift a slave out of his chains looked racist to some people.
Boston removed its Emancipation Memorial last December because it was making residents and visitors “uncomfortable” all of a sudden. There was a similarly problematic statue of Teddy Roosevelt in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
It showed Roosevelt on a horse with a black man and a Native American walking alongside.
Equity would demand that they all have horses.
But it’s no longer New York’s problem, as it’s being packed up and shipped to North Dakota where it will be displayed at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library...Read all!
Later this week, the FDA plans to approve, as the first outpatient COVID drugs, therapeutics that are extremely dangerous and unproven, even as the agency goes to war against cheap, safe, and proven drugs with a track record of no serious adverse events. The approval is as shocking as it is revealing and should serve as a warning to those who don’t believe the FDA would approve vaccines that aren’t safe and effective.
Belgium to shut down all seven of its nuclear reactors by 2025 | Euronews
"Belgium will shut down all seven of its nuclear reactors by 2025 but will not close the door on new-generation nuclear technology, the coalition government announced on Thursday...
Progressively phasing out nuclear power has been enshrined in Belgian law since 2003."...Read all.
Natural Gas Prices Surge in Europe as Russia Turns up the Heat
"Within the past two weeks, the price of natural gas has nearly doubled in Europe, signaling Russian moves to put pressure on Europe, NATO, and Ukraine...Read all.
The job of the people protecting Joe Biden is to spin all of his f*ck ups so the blame falls on someone else. That dirty job lies mainly on White House Spokeessoulessginger Jen Psaki. We've already heard her blame Biden's horrendous poll numbers on the American people not knowing any better. One of her more recent questionable claims was saying the rise of meat prices ISN'T the fault of Joe Biden's policies causing everything to be more expensive. It's the fault of greedy meat conglomerates. Mike Rowe, a regular critic of our puddingheaded president, calls free-range cow manure on that one.
The highly infectious omicron variant of the coronavirus accounted for 73.2% of new Covid-19 cases in the United States last week, making it the virus’ dominant variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
A healthcare worker conducts a COVID-19 test at a walk-up location in Farragut Square in Washington, ... [+]
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...The delta variant accounted for 26.6% of last week’s infections, and other variants accounted for 0.1%.
1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.
1951 - Libya achieved independence as the United Kingdom of Libya, under King Idris.
1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.
A law professor proposed Monday that two major edits must be made to the United States Constitution in order to place new restrictions on the First Amendment and Second Amendment.
Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the University of Miami Law School — published an essay in the Boston Globe advocating that both amendments be edited to promote the collective good, arguing that each is too individualistic in its current form.
They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration. "In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.”
In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists.
That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research. The tale unfolded in October 2020 after the launch of the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns...Read all.
"The editors of the BMJ—one of the oldest and most respected scientific journals in the world—have issued a blistering letter slamming Facebook for one of its "fact-checking" partners the editors are calling "inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible."
At issue is the BMJ's publishing of a report on "internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails" it received from an employee who had worked for a subcontractor of Pfizer during the company's COVID-19 vaccine trials. The materials "revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety," the editors claim. After the magazine published the report on the findings, however, readers of the BMJ "began reporting a variety of problems when trying to share [the] article" on Facebook.
Those issues were traced to a "fact check" performed by a Facebook partner, a check the editors deemed "inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible." Here's the whole letter. Read it to the end; it's a thunderclap...Read all!
Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers — president and vice president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), respectively — reflected on the federal government’s internment of Japanese Americans following Japan’s attack of Pearl Harbor while discussing legislative measures proposed in New York to detain those the governor deemed “potentially dangerous to public health.”
Why COVID-19 Tests Don't Tell You Which Variant You May Have
"...While sequencing is commonplace for scientists and researchers, it is not used in clinical settings and individuals with COVID-19 rarely know which variant they are infected with...Read all.
