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72% of Republicans see Trump as a model for party's future

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© AP/Alex BrandonUS President Donald Trump
When the Republican Party reorganizes itself next year, GOP voters strongly believe President Trump should remain the role model, but most think the party should look for a new face to be its next presidential candidate.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 72% of Likely Republican Voters think their party should be more like Trump than like the average GOP member of Congress. Twenty-four percent (24%) see the average Republican in Congress as a better model. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Most Republicans have consistently identified more with Trump than the average GOP member of Congress in surveys for the last several years.

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Lockdown: A deadly, failed experiment

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It has been a global catastrophe. We must never go down this road again.

The country this year which has been most ravaged by Covid-19 - losing a shocking 1,600 people in every million to the virus at the time of writing - is Belgium.

That might come as something of a surprise. You could be forgiven for thinking it was America, thanks to Trump's alleged ignorance of science. Or what about Britain, which locked down 'too late' because of its government's short-lived but foolish belief in freedom? Or Brazil, whose right-wing leader complained that lockdowns and masks were for 'fags'? If not those, then surely Sweden, where there has famously been no hard lockdown at all?

But no, it's Belgium. There's nothing particularly unusual about Belgium's response. Nothing that diverged significantly from the consensus. It did the same thing as everyone else around the same time as everyone else. It even garnered praise for its testing capacity.

There's one caveat: Belgium's unparalleled death rate might be down to how the deaths are counted. Some say Belgium is merely the 'most honest' country - while others have accused officials of overcounting and including all kinds of deaths not caused by Covid.

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Best of the Web: Frank Capra's Defense of Humanity: Cinema Considered as a Moral Institution

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© Associated PressScene from 'It's A Wonderful Life', directed by Frank Capra
For those who find themselves with excess time this holiday season which they would prefer not to squander with idleness or Netflix binges, then I'd like to offer this serving of Frank Capra films to uplift the soul.

Frank Capra (1897-1991) stands as one of the most brilliant directors/producers of the 20th Century, and sadly also one of the least understood- known at best for the film It's a Wonderful Life played every year as a Christmas tradition, or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

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Heroes: Top 10 'anti-woke' celebrities who held their ground in 2020's cancel culture wars

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© (L) Getty Images via AFP / Getty Images North America / Dia Dipasupil; (C) Screenshot Youtube / PowerfulJRE; (R) Getty Images / Mike Marsland(L-R) JK Rowling, Joe Rogan, Rose McGowan
In RT's The Wokies series, we've been handing out the dubious accolade of being the loudest virtue signalers of 2020. It's time to honor the other side - those few who stood up to the social justice warriors' onslaught.

With the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown restrictions, plus a US presidential election that sucked up everyone's attention, 2020 provided a plethora of opportunities for celebrities to virtue signal and prove their SJW bona fides.

Luckily, however, the woke beast that is the collective political thought bubble pushed by Hollywood also saw some significant pushback from fellow artists unwilling to keep quiet. Here is a look at the 10 who found the most success calling out the hypocrisy and speaking truth to power.

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Best of the Web: Nashville blast: Lone bomber or false-flag attack?

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© Associated PressEmergency personnel work near the scene of an explosion in downtown Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 25, 2020
On Christmas day, a recreational vehicle exploded in downtown Nashville, TN outside an AT&T transmission building — one block from the company's office building.

What happened knocked out communications and 911 emergency call centers over a wide area, including parts of neighboring Kentucky and Alabama.

Was the motive behind what happened what official reports claimed? Or was something else responsible for the blast? Was it a false flag?

Comment: Lendman raises important questions. The investigation is certainly following the same pattern as other false flag incidents, with the media predictably falling into line. Yet no one has yet asked the key question, 'Qui bono'? Who (ultimately) benefits from the damage to the AT&T building?


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Improvised explosive device kills 3 French soldiers in Mali

Armored vehicle hits improvised explosive device near country's border with Niger, Burkina Faso
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Three French soldiers were killed in eastern Mali as their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED), the French presidency said on Monday.

The incident took place when Brigadier-Chief Tanerii Mauri, Fighters 1st Class Dorian Issakhanian and Quentin Pauchet from the first regiment of hunters of Thierville-sur-Meuse were on an escort mission between Hombori and Gossi, near the border with Niger and Burkina Faso.

"Despite the immediate intervention of the medical team present in the convoy and the care provided, the three soldiers could not be revived," a statement from the Defense Ministry said.

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Best of the Web: Scamdemic: More under-60s died on UK roads last year than those with no underlying conditions from coronavirus

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Road accidents, an actual thing. Unlike Covid-19-as-plague-like-pandemic...
Almost three times as many under 60s died in road crashes last year as those without health conditions killed by coronavirus, NHS data shows.

Just 388 people under the age of 60 with no underlying health conditions have died of coronavirus in England, NHS data has revealed.

The figures show that only 0.8 per cent of all deaths from coronavirus between April 2 and December 23 came from this group of the population.

In the same time 45,770 people had died with underlying health conditions, while 1,979 were viewed as healthy.

Of these, only 388 were between 40 and 59, 44 were between the ages of 20 and 39, and only six were younger than 19.

In comparison, during the whole of 2019, 955 under-60s died on England's roads.

It comes amid further criticism of the Government that their policy on lockdown and the tier system is doing more damage to the economy and mental health of it's working-age population than only shielding the vulnerable.

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Best of the Web: Scamdemic: ICU occupancy in English hospitals no higher than last December

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UK NHS staff are so bored during this 'pandemic', they've been making silly videos all year long
The media is full of alarming reports of NHS hospitals being on the brink of armageddon, such is the surge in coronavirus patients. "As we head into the new year we are seeing a real rise in the pressure on NHS services, particularly across London and the south-east," Saffron Cordery, the Deputy Chief Executive of NHS Providers told the Guardian.

A letter from NHS chiefs sent to the chief executives of all NHS trust and foundation trusts on December 23rd contained this alarming paragraph:
With COVID-19 inpatient numbers rising in almost all parts of the country, and the new risk presented by the variant strain of the virus, you should continue to plan on the basis that we will remain in a level 4 incident for at least the rest of this financial year and NHS trusts should continue to safely mobilise all of their available surge capacity over the coming weeks. This should include maximising use of the independent sector, providing mutual aid, making use of specialist hospitals and hubs to protect urgent cancer and elective activity and planning for use of funded additional facilities such as the Nightingale hospitals, Seacole services and other community capacity. Timely and safe discharge should be prioritised, including making full use of hospices. Support for staff over this period will need to remain at the heart of our response, particularly as flexible redeployment may again be required.
And the Independent reports that the London Ambulance Service has issued a warning saying it can no longer guarantee an ambulance will turn up if women giving birth at home require emergency care.

Sounds like a major crisis, right? Better move the rest of England into Tier 4, make mask-wearing mandatory in all settings and close schools until Easter.

Or is it?

If you look at ICU occupancy in NHS hospitals across England on December 20th it was lower than the December average in 2019 in most of the country - and it's worth remembering that the 2019-20 flu season was unusually mild.
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Biohazard

4 German care workers rushed to hospital after Pfizer coronavirus vaccination, claims that 8 received 'accidental overdose'

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Germany's COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by a mishap in the north where eight workers in an elderly care home received an overdose.

Vorpommern-Ruegen district authorities said the workers in Stralsund city received five times the recommended dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine on Sunday. Four went to hospital for observation after developing flu-like symptoms.

"I deeply regret the incident. This individual case is due to individual errors. I hope that all those affected do not experience any serious side-effects," district chief Stefan Kerth said in a statement.

Comment: In this incident they're claiming that the side effects are due to accidental overdose, but we know that even the standard dose comes with alarming risks. Clearly the authorities are determined to continue with the unnecessary mass vaccination campaigns and so it's likely that many more people will have to suffer before the serious side effects of these experimental vaccines come to light.


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Bold billionaire offers $1 million bounty for Dominion's, Eric Coomer's comeuppance

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Alki David, Billionaire Businessman, Podcaster
Want to make a quick million? All you have to do is tell the truth that could save America.

In a world on the edge of collapse into global technocratic authoritarianism, that's how easy it is to be an instant hero right now. And a millionaire.

Alki David is a billionaire mogul and podcaster. He is also, apparently, not an anti-American globalist. That makes at least one. We must celebrate him and get his message out, despite knowing little else about the man. Perhaps more will follow and he can give us all more details about his bounty. We would love to hear from him.

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