A 6-month old baby is rescued from the Rio Grande river after it was thrown off a raft by human smugglers.
Reports from Michigan, New Jersey, and New York City say CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases are on the rise.
And Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is urging companies not to buy personal protective equipment from China.
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Ex-CDC Director Says He Believes Coronavirus Escaped from a Chinese Lab
by Chuck Ross
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cast doubt on the prevalent theory about the origins of the coronavirus, saying in an interview released Friday that he believes the virus escaped from a science lab in China.
“I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human,” Redfield told CNN’s Sanjay Gupta for a special on the virus that airs Sunday.
“Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human to human transmission,” Redfield said.
Redfield, who helped lead the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, said that he believes that the virus started transmitting in Wuhan, China, in September or October of 2019, likely as the result of a leak from a lab in the city.
“That’s my own feelings. And only opinion. I’m allowed to have opinions now,” he said in the interview.
Scientists Issue Open Letter Detailing Incorrect and Contradictory Claims in WHO Origins Report Used to Downplay Lab Leak Theory
A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday demanding a full investigation into the origins of COVID-19 that includes a thorough examination into the possibility the virus could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. The scientists said the World Health Organization’s report on the origins of the pandemic, which concluded the […]
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WHO buries dismissal of lab leak theory in last pages of 123-page origins report, draft copy shows
Andrew Kerr, DCNF The World Health Organization buried its dismissal of the lab leak theory at the very end of its 123-page COVID-19 origins report, according to […]
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Washington Examiner: John Durham Interviewing Witnesses And Subpoenas
According to the Washington Examiner, John Durham’s special investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation is still ongoing, with Durham “arranging witness interviews and issuing subpoenas in recent months, according to a new report.”
The “Spygate” investigation was based on information and facts obtained from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ investigation which set the stage for the appointment of Durham as special investigator.
Epidemiologist: We Could Have Reached Natural Herd Immunity in 6 Weeks | Video: 1 Hour 12 Minutes 27 Seconds
Why do governments persist with lockdowns, or the threat of lockdowns, given a growing body of evidence showing that lockdowns don’t save lives? Will lockdowns that were meant to only ‘flatten the curve’ now be sidelined because COVID vaccines are considered the panacea?
This week on Speaking Naturally, we interview Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D. He is an eminent scientist with a long track record as a biostatistician and epidemiologist. He was one of the earliest to call out the folly of lockdowns. His main recommendations to shield or treat early the most vulnerable, while letting the infection run its normal course through healthy populations — stated as early as March 2020 — subsequently became the basis of the Great Barrington Declaration.
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The Most Melancholy Comet We’ve Ever Seen
In 2019, Gennady Borisov, an amateur astronomer in Crimea, discovered his seventh comet. This icy object wasn’t like the others Borisov had found, or like any of the other comets in the solar system. This one wasn’t orbiting the sun.
Instead, it had been drifting alone in interstellar space, following its own path, until one day, it entered our solar system and grazed past the sun. Warmed by the heat of a star, for the first time in who knows how long, the icy comet thawed just a little bit.
Some of Earth’s most powerful telescopes captured the cosmic interloper as it went by. Astronomers could see the comet enveloped in a fuzzy glow of once-frozen dust particles loosed by the sun.
By analyzing these particles from afar, researchers have managed to learn about the comet’s composition, its origins, and its long journey here. One recent finding demonstrates something rather melancholy.
Of the comets astronomers have observed, this one—named Borisov, after its discoverer—is one of the most pristine. “Think of the wind erosion of the mountains, or even the suntan on our skin when we go to the beach,” Stefano Bagnulo, an astronomer at Armagh Observatory, in the United Kingdom, who had studied Borisov, told me. Borisov shows very few signs of another sunny encounter in its journey through space. For a comet to be as unblemished as this one means it has been extremely alone.
Dozens of Plaintiffs Demand Day in Court Against Monsanto as Bayer Tries to Reassure Investors
Ken Moll is girding for battle.
Moll, a Chicago-based personal injury attorney, has dozens of lawsuits pending against the former Monsanto Co., all alleging the company’s Roundup weed killers cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and he is now preparing several of those cases for trial.
Moll’s firm is one of a handful that have refused settlement offers made by Monsanto owner Bayer AG, deciding instead to take the fight over the safety of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide products back into courtrooms around the country.
Though Bayer has assured investors it is bringing closure to the costly Roundup litigation through settlement deals totaling more than $11 billion, new Roundup cases are still being filed, and notably several are positioned for trial, with the earliest set to start in July.
“We’re going forward,” Moll said. “We’re doing this.”
Moll has lined up many of the same expert witnesses who helped win the three Roundup trials held to date. And he plans to rely heavily on the same internal Monsanto documents that provided shocking revelations of corporate misconduct that led juries to award hefty punitive damages to the plaintiffs in each of those trials.
Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll to surpass that of worst U.S. wave
Brazil is expected to pass the U.S.’s January high for COVID-19 deaths as the country experiences a deadly virus surge, …
Manchin Vows to Uphold Filibuster, Complicating Biden’s Agenda
Senator Joe Manchin dashed fellow Democrats’ hopes for changing Senate rules to allow them to pass President Joe Biden’s agenda without Republican support, declaring that he opposed scrapping the filibuster under any circumstance.
Steven Crowder’s Latest Video Has The Internet Going Absolutely Ballistic
Political commentator Steven Crowder said Wednesday he would have a producer from his show, “Louder with Crowder,” kneel on his neck “for 9 minutes live.”
Crowder said he would “test the theory” and recreate a May 2020 incident where Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for roughly nine minutes.
COVID vaccination site closes early after adverse reactions to Johnson & Johnson shot
Thirteen people at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Colorado had adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Wednesday — shutting down operations for the day, a report said. Officials did not disclose the types of reactions suffered by less than 1 percent of the more than 1,700 people given shots. Officials did not…
In Michigan, 246 fully vaccinated people tested positive for COVID-19, three died
Michigan data indicate that 246 state residents tested positive for COVID-19 more than two weeks past when they were considered fully vaccinated against the virus that causes the disease.
Biden Commerce Secretary Says Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Saved American Jobs
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo told reporters at the White House on April 7 that the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum saved American jobs. “With respect to tariffs, there is a place for tariffs. The 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum have in fact helped save American jobs in the steel and aluminum industries,” Raimondo said, marking a rare point of agreement with the policies of the prior administration. “So what do we do with tariffs? We have to level the playing field. No one can out-compete the American worker if the playing field is level,” Raimondo continued. “And the fact is, China’s actions are uncompetitive, coercive, underhanded. They’ve proven they’ll do whatever it takes. And so I plan to use all the tools in my toolbox as aggressively as possible to protect American workers and businesses from unfair Chinese practices.” President Donald Trump in March 2018 imposed a 25 …
April 7, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 46 Minutes
A third virus wave hits Michigan, Arkansas is the first state to ban children from having gender reassignment surgery, and Rudy Giuliani’s son may be running for New York governor.
Shh. These Are The Constant Mass Shootings We’re Not Supposed To Talk About | “2-Year-Old Boy, 7 Adults Wounded in Latest Chicago Shootings”
CHICAGO—A 2-year-old boy was shot in the head Tuesday morning while riding in a car on Chicago’s famed Lake Shore Drive just hours after seven people were shot and wounded in a fight a few miles away, in what is shaping up to be one of the most violent years for the city in memory, […]
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Democrat Run States & Cities Continue To Struggle With Covid-19 | “Minnesota hospitalizations climb as virus cases trend upward”
Minnesota health officials on Tuesday reported nearly 500 Minnesotans are hospitalized due to the coronavirus as case numbers continue to rise despite the state’s vaccination campaign.
Official: EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link
Marco Cavaleri, head of health threats and vaccine strategy at the Amsterdam-based agency, told Rome’s Il Messaggero newspaper on Tuesday that the European Union’s medicines regulator is preparing to make a more definitive statement on the topic this week.
ROME — A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there’s a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and that the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting COVID-19.
Marco Cavaleri, head of health threats and vaccine strategy at the Amsterdam-based agency, told Rome’s Il Messaggero newspaper on Tuesday that the European Union’s medicines regulator is preparing to make a more definitive statement on the topic this week.
Asked about Cavaleri’s comments, the EMA press office said its evaluation “has not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing.” It said it planned a press conference as soon as the review is finalized, possibly Wednesday or Thursday.
Based on the evidence so far, Cavaleri said there’s a clear association between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the dozens of rare blood clots that have been reported worldwide amid the tens of millions of AstraZeneca shots that have been given out.
“It is becoming more and more difficult to affirm that there isn’t a cause-and-effect relationship between AstraZeneca vaccines and the very rare cases of blood clots associated with a low level of platelets,” Cavaleri was quoted as saying.
NASA gets first weather report from the Jerezo Crater Mars using a system strapped to Perseverance
NASA shared the first weather report from Jezero Crater on Mars. A system attached to Perseverance’s mast showed it went from -4F to -14 degrees on Feb. 19 at around 10:25pm ET.
What to Know About the Facebook Data Leak
Data from a 2019 hack of the social-media platform has recently been made public, revealing the phone numbers and personal information of more than a half-billion people.
Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The state of the world’s human rights
The Amnesty International Report 2020/21 documents the human rights situation in 149 countries in 2020, as well as providing global and regional analysis. It presents Amnesty lnternational’s concerns and calls for action to governments and others. During 2020, the world was rocked by COVID-19. The pandemic and measures taken to tackle it impacted everyone, but also threw into stark relief, and sometimes aggravated, existing inequalities and patterns of abuse.
100,000 Illegal Immigrants Escaped: Border Patrol Official
The number of illegal immigrants being apprehended at the southern border is soaring—and so is the number of those who are evading capture. But border agents are in a bind because they are needed in overcrowded processing facilities at the same time.
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Biden Says All Adults Will Be Eligible for Vaccine by April 19
The president moved up his target date by two weeks, matching the timetable already being put in place by many states.
Texas Bans Vaccine Passports Via Executive Order
The governor of Texas issued an executive order prohibiting vaccine passports. He said vaccines are always voluntary and never forced. Texas and Florida are the first states to ban them.
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CNN Admits Crime Wave, Highlights Violence in Democrat-Run Cities
CNN admits a crime wave which was evident in 2020 is continuing in 2021 in Democrat-run cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and others.
REPORT: New York’s Vaccine Passport Has ‘Massive Security Flaws,’ Barely Functional
New York’s “Excelsior Pass” vaccine passport program has “massive security flaws,” with user reviews “hammering” the app for its total “dysfunction.”
In his newsletter, “The Dossier,” Jordan Schachtel revealed the total dysfunction of New York’s “Excelsior Pass” vaccine passport system. Built in conjunction with IBM, the Excelsior Pass was based off of the company’s “Digital Health Pass” system, which Schachtel describes as being “incredibly impractical, and incredibly easy to manipulate.”
The system is “incredibly rigid,” he writes, noting that not only does it take two weeks for the system to recognize that you have been fully vaccinated, but that many people who have been vaccinated will not even be on their database to begin with. Anyone who received a vaccine from out of state, or who took a private at home test kit not on the New York central database, will not be on their system, as there is absolutely zero communication with any other database.
These 5 states have nearly half of nation’s new COVID-19 cases
Nearly half of the nation’s new COVID-19 cases are concentrated in just five states — including New York, which had the highest number of new infections across the country last week, data show. Together, New York, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey accounted for 44 percent of all new infections between March 29 and April…
CDC: Soap and Detergent Enough to Reduce Spread of COVID-19 in Most Cases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that normal household cleaners and soap are adequate to use to clean indoor surfaces and disinfectants are only necessary if someone in the home has been sick with the virus. “In most situations, regular cleaning of surfaces with soap and detergent, not necessarily disinfecting those surfaces, is enough to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread,” said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at Monday’s White House coronavirus briefing. “Disinfection is only recommended in indoor settings—schools and homes—where there has been a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 within the last 24 hours,” she added. Besides disinfecting indoor surfaces after someone has been sick, Walensky recommended taking continued precautions of wearing a mask and socially distancing to prevent the spread of the virus. She noted that the infection rate for the most recent 7-day period is up 3 percent from the last 7-day period. She …
President Biden advances to April 19 the date that all adults will be eligible for COVID vaccination
“We’re still in a life and death race against this virus,” Biden said.
Fairfax: McAuliffe ‘treated me like George Floyd’ after assault claims surfaced
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) accused fellow gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) of treating him “like George Floyd and Emmett Till” when the former governor called on Fairfax to resign after sexual assault allegations against him surfaced in 2019.
Fairfax made the charge during a gubernatorial debate on Tuesday night while standing alongside McAuliffe and several other Democratic candidates.
“Everyone on that stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe three minutes after a press release came out,” Fairfax said at the debate, which was hosted by CBS 6. “He treated me like George Floyd. He treated me like Emmett Till. No due process. Immediately assumed my guilt.”
Here’s The Far-Left’s Plan To Take Over Every Federal Court Over Republican Objection
Progressives have long advocated packing the Supreme Court, but a recent plan proposed by far-left judicial activists calls on Senate Democrats to add hundreds of new federal judges to the lower courts through the procedural tactic of reconciliation.
Yale Law School professor Samuel Moyn and Take Back the Court director Aaron Belkin sent a memo March 29 to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Senate Democrats in favor of expanding federal appellate and district courts through reconciliation.
A third of COVID survivors suffer mental or neurological problems, study reveals
A third of coronavirus patients were found to suffer from psychiatric or brain problems within six months of their COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers analyzed the health records of 236,379 COVID patients, mostly from the US, and found that 34 percent had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric disorders six months…
Man accused of trying to extort Max Gaetz admits he asked for cash
The man accused of trying to extort $25 million from Rep. Matt Gaetz’s family admitted Monday that he asked the congressman’s dad for cash — but denied that it was a shakedown.
Bob Kent, an ex-Air Force intelligence officer, confirmed to Sirius Radio host Michael Smerconish that he approached the Florida Republican’s dad, Don Gaetz, for money last month.
The funds, Kent said, were to pay for an effort to free Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, and is believed to be dead. Kent claimed he has video evidence that Levinson is still alive and is being held hostage.
Kent said he met Don Gaetz, a wealthy former Florida politician, at his office on March 17 — and told him his son was having “legal issues” and might want to “generate good will” by helping with the rescue effort.
“I explained that in no way am I trying to extort him and that if he decides not to help us, he’ll never hear from me again,” Kent told Smerconish.
“Matt Gaetz is in need of good publicity, and I’m in need of $25 million to save Robert Levinson,” he added.
Kent insisted that his intention wasn’t to blackmail the Gaetz family.
New York Times Writers May Have Deceived Readers in Stories About Project Veritas: Court
Writers for the New York Times may have spread deceptive claims about the nonprofit journalism group Project Veritas, a judge ruled this week. In stories from 2020 about Project Veritas videos, writers Maggie Astor and Spencer Hsu inserted sentences that were opinions despite the articles being billed as news, New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood said. “If a writer interjects an opinion in a news article (and will seek to claim legal protections as opinion) it stands to reason that the writer should have an obligation to alert the reader, including a court that may need to determine whether it is fact or opinion, that it is opinion,” Wood wrote in a 16-page decision denying the paper’s request to dismiss a lawsuit from Project Veritas. “The Articles that are the subject of this action called the Video ‘deceptive,’ but the dictionary definitions of ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive’ provided by defendants’ counsel …
The Right View with President Donald J Trump and Lara Trump | Banned By YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Recorded March 30, 2021 | Video: 18 Minutes
“It was also sad from the point of view that we don’t have freedom of the press anymore. . . I think the censoring . . . when they (the mainstream media & Big Tech) didn’t show . . . all the things that were happening with Hunter (Biden) . . . it’s been fake (the news coverage & social media) for a long time. . . it used to be fake where they’d come up and I’d come up and you’d fight. . . and the public can believe one way or the other.” ~ Donald J. Trump
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Federal Judge Alleges Democrats Are Close to Controlling All Major News Outlets
A federal judge this week said that the Democrat Party is close to controlling the press as he detailed what he described as shocking bias against Republicans. D.C. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman outlined his opposition to the Supreme Court’s key decision in 1964 in New York Times v. Sullivan, which has since protected many […]
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Sidney Powell Blasts Dominion Suit as Bid to ‘Save Business’
Former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell asked a judge to dismiss a defamation suit filed against her by Dominion Voting Systems Inc., the election software company she accused of hatching a vast conspiracy to steal the election for Democrats.
Analysis: The Stated Goals of the Black Lives Matter Impact Report
by Kevin Mooney
Political activists who call for defunding police and ending what they call systemic racism used the banner of Black Lives Matter to raise tens of millions of dollars and launch a political action committee, according to the main organization’s “2020 Impact Report.”
The 42-page report declares victories in the election of two Democrats to the U.S. Senate in Georgia’s runoffs as well as three Democrats to the U.S. House from Texas, New York, and Missouri.
The report credits the new PAC for coordinating get-out-the-vote efforts. The main Black Lives Matter organization also entered the legislative fray for the first time while making generous grants to allied organizations.
In an introduction, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors says the radical organization believes that “white supremacy is currently sanctioned by our systems and even by some of our elected officials.”
Black Lives Matter raised $90 million in 2020 from corporations, other organizations, and individuals, with an average donation at $30.64 and more than 10% of donations recurring, according to the report.
The report says Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation had $8.4 million in operating expenses in 2020 while disbursing $217 million in grants to more than 33 other organizations.– – –
Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Kevin.
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Border Patrol agents arrest Yemeni men who were on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List
One man was arrested in late January and another was arrested in late March.
California shooting suspect expected to be arraigned from his hospital bed
The man accused of killing four people, including a child, last week in Southern California is expected to be…