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Project Veritas: Pfizer whistleblower goes on record revealing internal emails from CSO & Senior Director of Worldwide Research discussing COVID vaccine

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Project Veritas released the fifth video in its COVID vaccine investigative series today featuring a sit-down interview with Pfizer insider, Melissa Strickler. She leaked internal emails that show corporate executives telling staff to be secretive about the use of human fetal tissue in laboratory testing of the COVID vaccine.

Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer, Philip Dormitzer, admits aborted fetus tissue is used in the company's vaccine program, but that employees should just stick with Pfizer's polished narrative omitting any mention of aborted fetal tissue to avoid any issues with the public.

"HEK293T cells, used for the IVE assay, are ultimately derived from an aborted fetus," Dormitzer said. "On the other hand, the Vatican doctrinal committee has confirmed that they consider it acceptable for Pro-Life believers to be immunized. Pfizer's official statement couches the answer well and is what should be provided in response to an outside inquiry."

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Kyle Rittenhouse made 'reasonable' decision to shoot: expert testimony

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At a pretrial hearing on Tuesday, a use-of-force expert stated that Kyle Rittenhouse's actions during the riots in Kenosha, Wisc., in August 2020 were justified. Rittenhouse shot three men during that rioting, two of those men, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, died from their injuries.

Expert John Black testified that video shows Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse before reaching for the defendant's gun, Huber attacking Rittenhouse with his skateboard and attempting to wrestle away the gun, and Gaige Grosskreutz, who was injured, running at Rittenhouse armed with a pistol, according to WQAD 8.

"A citizen in that position, given those indicators, would it be reasonable for them to believe they were about to be assaulted?" Black stated. "I would argue yes."

Black spent hours at the pretrial hearing describing the moments that led to the shootings, offering a preview of the defense team's strategy when the trial begins next month.

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No jab, no wedding: Canadian town requires vaccine proof to get married

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An Ontario town prohibits engaged couples who have chosen not to take the COVID shots from obtaining a marriage license.

Oakville's regulations require that anyone who wants a marriage license from now on must show proof of inoculation. "Appointments for marriage licenses and ceremonies that have already been booked prior to September 22 will not require proof of full vaccination," the city website says. "[H]owever, any new appointments for marriage licences [sic] and ceremonies will be required. Ceremonies will be held inside town hall as of November 4, 2021."

A marriage license is required to get legally married in Canada, meaning that Oakville's rules effectively prohibit people who refuse the COVID shots from tying the knot. Couples cannot obtain a license online. "You must schedule an appointment to receive your marriage licence," the city's website says. "To be eligible for an appointment, please ensure that the intended date of your marriage is finalized and you have an officiant that has agreed to perform the marriage."

However, even proof of vaccination may halt plans to legally wed. "When you arrive at Town Hall for your scheduled appointment, you will be required to complete a COVID-19 self-assessment," the city said. "If you do not successfully meet the screening criteria, you will not be allowed to enter the building and your appointment will be cancelled."

Comment: Also in Canada: Federal public servants, RCMP and ALL air and rail travellers must be vaccinated by month's end, Trudeau says


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The real story behind Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Frances Haugen
Facebook suffered a massive outage on Monday. At the same time a high profile "whistleblower" has come forward to dish the FB dirt. These two things have combined to create a perfect storm of narrative portraying Mark Zuckerberg's company as a monster in desperate need of slaying by some deft government intervention.

But to what extent is that story contrived? Is Facebook willingly going along with it? And what does it mean for the rest of the internet?

What happened?

For several hours on Monday afternoon Facebook - and its subsidiaries Instagram and Whatsapp - were completely offline. Rumours circulated that large portions of the social media giant had been totally deleted. Others suggested it was a cyber attack.

Facebook itself insists there was no attack, and that it was purely an engineering error, but of course no tech company would ever admit to being vulnerable to a hack.

There's always the possibility the whole event was staged of course. Either way, the timing is very suspicious.

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USA

In a civil war the authoritarian left would be easily beaten - but it won't end there

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There are a lot of assumptions and misconceptions when it comes to the notion of a second civil war within the US. What I see most often is the argument that the political left has "already won" the war without firing a shot and that a rebellion would be crushed under the heel of a newly a-wokened military industrial complex and a leftist controlled federal government. The problem is, this argument is extremely naive and ignores the bigger picture.

I think there are a couple of reasons why certain people press the leftist supremacy theory: First, they greatly fear the idea of a kinetic war breaking out and find the idea of combat repellent. So, they act as if a shooting war cannot ever be won. They hide their fear behind a veil of "rationalism" and thin hopes of a completely passive resistance. They figure that if they can't fight and win, then no one else can fight and win.

Second, the motives of some of these people are more nefarious than fearful. One of the primary functions of 4th Generation (psychological) warfare is to convince a target population that "resistance is futile." If you can make them believe that winning is impossible then they may not fight at all, and thus the prophecy is self fulfilling.

Luckily this method of propaganda does not seem to be working on a large number of Americans. That said, there are many layers to the scenario of civil war. While the extreme cultism of leftists is relegated to a small percentage of the population, they are supported by almost every major institution in our nation. The federal government supports and protects them. Some state and local governments support and protect them. The mainstream media avidly sings their praises. Most corporations and Big Tech platforms support them and spread social justice doctrine along with them. And, all globalist foundations support, organize and even fund them.

Arrow Down

America's Afghan Withdrawal Debacle: 'It's even worse than people know'

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A U.S. military Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, after Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday.
The following is according to firsthand accounts.
  • U.S. Embassy left behind biometrics on Afghans who helped U.S.
  • Taliban used the information to contact the Afghans with spoof emails, telling them report to fake "safe houses," where they were executed
"It's even worse than people know," says a source who was present for the botched U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan in August.

As the capital of Kabul descended into chaos, the CIA managed to destroy all sensitive materials at its compound at the Ariana hotel prior to departing.

Operatives reportedly deployed the "vulcan fire," option, a multi-stage thermocorrosive chemical destroyer, to obliterate anything that the U.S. did not want to fall into the enemy's hands.

However, important and sensitive material was left behind a short distance away at the U.S. embassy.

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Teen with terminal condition forced to wear mask by school despite medical exemption eligibility

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A teen with a rare, progressive, terminal respiratory condition was forced to wear a mask at school, even though school's administrators had previously granted exemptions. After his parents objected, the teen was segregated into classroom alone. All Washington state schools were put under a mask mandate by Democrat Governor Jay Inslee in August.
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Allie Salas's son Caleb suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive terminal condition. The neuromuscular disease restricts lung mechanics and has also confined Caleb to a wheelchair. Before the pandemic, Caleb enjoyed attending school in Tennessee. The family moved to Washington and when the pandemic hit, schools were shuttered, and classes were offered online.

Briefcase

Former Amazon worker sues over unpaid time required for Covid-19 screenings

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A former Amazon warehouse employee has filed a lawsuit claiming the online retail giant violated Colorado state law by not paying for time taken to get Covid-19 tests.

According to the suit, Amazon required employees to take unpaid time to meet their requirements for having positive Covid-19 tests.

The federal lawsuit claims employees have been required since March 2020 to undergo health screenings before they clock in at work. To actually make their punch-in time, employees would have to arrive early to deal with long lines and delays. The process could take anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes to complete.

Beyond the pandemic, the suit claims putting in time off the clock is a regular business practice for Amazon, which requires workers to complete tasks before actually clocking in. Colorado law requires employees to be paid whenever they are performing labor or services on their employer's premises, the complaint says.

Family

Trust in US media drops near record low with only 36% of Americans expressing confidence in reporting

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Americans' trust in the media has plummeted four percentage points since last year to 36 percent — and is the lowest since 2016, a new poll released Thursday found.

Just 7 percent say they have a "great deal" of trust and confidence in newspapers, television and radio reporting the news accurately and fairly, and 29 percent say they have a "fair amount," the Gallup poll shows.

That combined 36 percent is four percentage points from 2016's record low of 32 percent, the poll said. More than a third — 34 percent — say they have "none at all" and 29 percent have "not very much."

Gallup, which has been tracking trust in the media annually since 1997, found that it peaked at 55 percent in 1999 and began slipping away since.

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Nike to end sales in Israeli shops in the Palestinian Occupied Territories

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Israel has been dealt a hammer blow by sports clothing manufacturer Nike. The mega-brand has announced that it will end the sale of its products in stores within the occupation state in a move welcomed by social media users as another victory for the international Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

"Following a comprehensive review performed by the company and considering the changing marketplace, it has been decided that the continuation of the business relationship between you and the company does no longer match the company's policy and goals," Nike is reported as saying in a letter sent to shops in Israel.

Nike's decision is expected to hit retailers hard. As one of the most popular sporting brands in the world, its products account for a large proportion of sales.