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The COVID-19 Origin Act passed in the Senate in May. Rep. Michael Burgess brought the bill to the House floor on Tuesday, when democrats shot it down, per the Epoch Times.
The vote was 216 to 207.
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The COVID-19 Origin Act passed in the Senate in May. Rep. Michael Burgess brought the bill to the House floor on Tuesday, when democrats shot it down, per the Epoch Times.
The vote was 216 to 207.
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Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks to media outside the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain, June 6, 2021.
Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks to media outside the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain, June 6, 2021.
Downing Street has decided that an inspection of Hancock's private email account was "neither necessary nor proportionate."
However, the government has acknowledged that Hancock - who resigned last month after being caught on camera smooching with an aide, leading to allegations that he violated his marriage vows, as well as his own social distancing guidelines - had used his personal email to carry out official business.
The move comes after the Good Law Project, a public advocacy group, argued that Hancock's emails should be reviewed, following an April court decision which ordered Downing Street to disclose documents and correspondence relating to several ministers' knowledge of a scheme that granted PPE contracts to suppliers with political links to the Tory government.
Downing Street responded by arguing that it had already reviewed more than 1.4 million documents associated with Hancock and several other senior government officials in response to the court order, and found nothing to indicate that it would be "necessary" to review the ministers' private emails.
If the Covid19 shots "reduce symptoms", but don't prevent infection or transmission...are they truly "vaccines"?
"New Normal Newspeak" is a series of short articles highlighting how our language has come under assault in the past eighteen months.
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"Vaccine" is a word a with a simple meaning. I'll quote it to you, from the Oxford dictionary:
You get the point.
"New Normal Newspeak" is a series of short articles highlighting how our language has come under assault in the past eighteen months.
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"Vaccine" is a word a with a simple meaning. I'll quote it to you, from the Oxford dictionary:
A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.And here, from the CDC's website:
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.Encyclopedia Brittanica says more or less the same. As does dictionary.com. Cambridge University. Merriam Webster.
You get the point.
Pegasus spyware was used to target journalists and political leaders
On Thursday, the office of the Hungarian prosecutor said in a statement that an investigation had been ordered into allegations concerning the use of Pegasus snooping software from Israeli firm NSO. The statement states that the aim of the investigation is to find out whether a criminal offense has taken place.
Comment: While the Pegasus spyware has been clearly used for many nefarious purposes, the Guardian piece smack of fake news. The story seems to be part of regime change tactics against Orban's leadership. He has been a pain in the West's collective behind for years.
- Viktor Orban's pursuit of a sovereign Hungary pegged as a crime against the EU
- Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says Soros plans to weaken nations and destroy Christian culture
- Hungarian PM Orban: Breakup of EU 'can't be ruled out' if Brussels tries to enforce pro-immigration policies
- 'You condemn us because we are not a nation of migrants,' Hungarian PM Orban tells EU before sanctions vote
- Hungarian PM Orban: Russia brings much needed stability to Middle East amid migrant influx
- Breaking ranks: Hungarian PM Orban meets Putin in Moscow, calls for 'normal' Europe-Russia
- Hungarian prime minister Orban declares end to "liberal democracy" in Hungary, promises to fight for Christian values
- Hungary declares LGBT+ activists will be barred from schools as EU opens inquiry into law restricting promotion of homosexuality
- Hungary to repay bailout, asks IMF to leave the country
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Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
Speaking at a webinar on international relations on Friday, the veteran diplomat accused the US and its allies in Europe of
"trying to form a belt of instability around us - forcing our closest neighbors, our brotherly peoples, to make a choice - either you are with the West, or you are with the Russian Federation." They want "to surround us with a cordon sanitaire, and even to profit from the fact they are having a decisive influence on the benefit of our neighbors."He went on to point to the unrest that broke out in Belarus after last summer's disputed presidential elections, arguing this was supported from afar. In addition, the diplomat accused the West of trying to pull Moldova into its sphere of influence.
"Now our Western colleagues are trying to expand their presence, including military, along the perimeter of our borders, including Central Asia and the Transcaucasus."
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
Those who refuse to get vaccinated "are undermining the efforts of all of us," Bennett announced on Thursday, as the number of new coronavirus cases in Israel continued to rise. If everyone gets the vaccine, life can return to normal, but if a million people refuse the other eight million will have to endure lockdowns, he said.
"There's a time when this discussion has to stop," Bennett told the nation. "Science is clear: the vaccines work, they're effective, they're safe."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
According to CNN, Banks planned on calling the head of the Capitol Police Union, a loud critic of the security failures from that day, to testify as a GOP witness. Banks had been planning with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the select committee's chairman, Tuesday evening on how the logistics of the investigation would work after it was announced he would be the ranking member.
By Wednesday morning, Pelosi said Banks, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), would not serve on the panel.
Comment: This 'committee' has become a Democratic-stacked deck to protect the queen at all costs. Are we surprised?
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Israeli enforcers
Israeli enforcers
Located to the south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Silwan is one of the largest, oldest and nearest Palestinian towns to the mosque, as only the southern wall of Jerusalem, which is adjacent to Wadi Hilweh neighborhood, separates its northern entrance from the mosque.
Israeli authorities have been demolishing homes for weeks in the area to make way for a biblical theme park, known as the "City of David." Palestinians say the demolitions are aimed at driving them from Jerusalem in an attempt to further "Judaize" the city. Israeli authorities, for their part, claim the homes have been illegally built. Yet Palestinians note that receiving building permits in the area is nearly impossible.
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US Special Forces train Nigerian troops
US Special Forces train Nigerian troops
"Thus far, we've identified seven individuals who were former members of the Colombian military that had received some sort of ... US funded and provided education and training," Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday, stressing that such training is "very common," and did not "[lead] to or [encourage] what happened in Haiti."
While Kirby declined to provide details on an individual basis for the seven assassins, he said the instruction included
"cadet leadership development, counter-drug operations, noncommissioned officer professional development, small-unit leadership training, human rights training, emergency medical training, some helicopter maintenance training, and those kinds of things."He went on to say that he knew of no plans at the Pentagon to reconsider this "very valuable, ethical leadership training" program despite recent events in Haiti, which saw President Jovenel Moïse shot dead by gunmen at his home near Port-au-Prince earlier this month. Around two dozen suspects have since been brought into Haitian custody, the majority of them former members of Colombia's military now working for private security firms, some based in the US.
Comment: See also:
- Ex-military were conned into assassination of Haitian leader, Colombia's president says, though some were willing participants
- Haiti's president killed by 'foreign hit squad' of ex-Colombian military & Haitian-Americans, 11 arrested inside 'Taiwan embassy'
- Haiti police say murder suspect is middleman living in Florida
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Buk air defense system deployed
Buk air defense system deployed
Two Israeli F-16 jets fired the guided missiles from Lebanese airspace, around 01:11 local time on Thursday.
"All four missiles were destroyed by on-duty Syrian air defense units, using Russian-made Buk-M2E systems," the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria said in a statement.
Comment: Wonder why the dems wouldn't want that information released? Do they know something the rest of us don't?
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