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Jack Posobiec breaks down the new Kyle Rittenhouse video

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On Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec dissected the video that emerged from the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday, going through the footage to give an analysis of what it could mean for the self-defense case.

Posobiec tracked through the events of August 25, 2020, when Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men, wounding a third. Rittenhouse is on trial for those deaths, and his defense is that he shot those men in self-defense. Video evidence, shot by an FBI plane that was overhead, was submitted into evidence today by the defense.

"The evening of August 25 2020, following three nights of riots and arson and terror throughout the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse and another group of armed members of the community, members of the area decided that they had had enough and they wanted to protect the town, the village, really," Posobiec said.

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NJ truck driver Ed Durr vows to be Republican 'voice' in state senate after unseating longtime Dem

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New Jersey state Senate candidate Edward Durr.
Durr's victory would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

Republican New Jersey state Senate candidate and truck driver Ed Durr is on the verge of defeating longtime Senate President Steve Sweeney in a sweeping victory that would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.

The 62-year-old Raymour & Flanagan truck driver holds a lead of more than 2,000 votes in a tight race for the state's Third District Senate seat.

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Southwest launches investigation into pilot reportedly using anti-Biden phrase on flight

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Southwest Airlines (LUV) says it is launching an internal investigation after a report that one of its pilots used anti-Biden slang over a plane's public address system during a flight.

"Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their personal political opinions while on the job," the airline said in a Sunday statement. "Southwest is conducting an internal investigation into the recently reported event and will address the situation directly with any Employee involved while continuing to remind all Employees that public expression of personal opinions while on duty is unacceptable."

The Associated Press, which had a reporter on board the flight, first reported that a pilot of a Friday flight from Houston to Albuquerque ended his typical greeting to passengers with the phrase "Let's go Brandon," which has become right-wing code for "F**k Joe Biden." The AP report said passengers responded with audible gasps.

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Syringe

Fully vaccinated air passenger infected with coronavirus is found dead in his seat after landing at German airport following flight from Turkey

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A fully vaccinated airplane passenger infected with coronavirus died during his Pegasus Airlines flight
A fully vaccinated air passenger infected with coronavirus was found dead in his seat after a flight.

The Pegasus Airlines crew found the 51-year-old man lifeless in his seat after Flight 1043 from Istanbul, Turkey, to Hamburg, Germany, on October 25.

The man, who was born in Russia and lived in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, was travelling on an Airbus 320 when he passed away during the flight, which took off from Istanbul at around 7am GMT (10am local time).

He was found lifeless in his seat by a member of staff after all other passengers had disembarked the aircraft in Hamburg at around 12pm GMT, (1 pm German time), according to local media reports.

The official cause of the man's death is not clear although local reports have suggested he had suffered from a number of serious prior illnesses, which were not specified.

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Stock Down

Chilling bigly: Total systemic economic breakdown on the horizon

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Is it so, as some wags say, that industry no longer makes money; only finance does? That's been the operating theory for much of the West lately. Of course, that invites the question: what then is finance supposed to finance... that is, put money into? Why... industry, of course, and in the broadest sense of the word: the production of goods... goods being things that have value (that's what's good about them). How quaint! But most of the industry that used to be here has gone to other lands.

What about all that money (capital) flowing into technology: Facebook, Google, Amazon? Hmmmm. What does Facebook produce, besides conflict between its users? Okay, it harvests data about them to sell to advertisers. And what are the advertisers advertising? Their products. Who produces the products? Mostly those people in other lands. Facebook users, then, are increasingly not employed, at least not in the production of goods. Perhaps in services like nursing, trucking, garbage pickup, food prep, police, firemen, prison guards, government bureaucracy (is that a service or a dis-service?) and et cetera.

Anyway, those service people are being fired left-and-right now because they refuse to be coerced into taking a vaccine that was never properly tested and has many scary side-effects. By the way, as of Sunday, the "newspaper-of-record" (The New York Times) finally had to come clean, after months of whistling past the graveyard, and admit what the public already knows: mRNA vaccines are dangerous:
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Matt Taibbi: The red-pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia

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Notes on a "realigning" election.

The drama that played out in upscale Loudoun County, Virginia over the last year or so, and cost Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe the governorship last night, is a book waiting to be written. In fact, if companies like HBO or Netflix have any sense, it will soon be a movie as well, because almost every hot-button issue in American national politics was rolled up somewhere in this sprawling, preposterous, rage-filled suburban drama.

I have a longer piece on this coming, and have to return to the area at least once to follow up, so I can't get into it in depth yet. But as I scan the news from an Amtrak seat, on the way back north after watching last night's shocking come-from-ahead loss by McAuliffe, a few things are already clear.

Comment: Virginia, and Loudoun County specifically, has been a microcosm of every problem currently plaguing the US in the last year, so the upset of an entrenched Democrat is quite telling in its significance. There is, undoubtedly, more to come in this corner of America.

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Archbishop Viganò writes stunning letter on vaccine program - Slams Pope for promoting jabs which contain material from aborted fetuses

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter to America's bishops in which he makes several astounding claims about COVID-19 jabs and the Church's role in promoting vaccines.

Viganò asserts that vaccines normally go through years of rigorous testing, and that the lack of such a process in the case of COVID-19 jabs represents public health authorities conducting "experimentation on the entire world population."

The Archbishop referenced drug treatments that have proven effective in fighting COVID without the risks of vaccines, noting that such drugs have been discredited by global health bodies and the media.

"It must be reiterated that there are effective treatments which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune defenses, something that the vaccines do not do," he wrote. "Furthermore, these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs that are used have been licensed for decades."

"International standards specify that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other therapies with proven effectiveness," he added.

Syringe

Workers from Boeing, FedEx revolt against Biden's vaccine mandate

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U.S. companies face a "worker rebellion" and a potential workforce shortage, as President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate deadline grows closer, Reuters reported Tuesday.

"We're going to lose a lot of employees over this," local Kansas Machinists union district head Cornell Adams told the publication. Nearly half of 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, have chosen to forego the Chinese coronavirus jab and are at risk of losing their jobs for not complying with Biden's federal vaccine mandate.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order September 9 requiring all employees working for a federal contractor or subcontractor to get vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus by November 24 to be considered "fully vaccinated" by a December 8, 2021, deadline.

Attention

Apple in bind over demand for new iPhone 13, cannibalizing iPads for compatible chips

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The iPad and iPhone have a number of components in common, allowing Apple to shift supplies between devices.
Apple has cut back sharply on iPad production to allocate more components to the iPhone 13, multiple sources told Nikkei Asia, a sign the global chip supply crunch is hitting the company even harder than it previously indicated.

Production of the iPad was down 50% from Apple's original plans for the past two months, sources briefed on the matter said, adding that parts intended for older iPhones were also being moved to the iPhone 13.

The iPad and iPhone models have a number of components in common, including both core and peripheral chips. This allows Apple to shift supplies between different devices in certain cases.

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Stock Down

4 more UK energy suppliers go bust, more expected to collapse amid soaring energy prices

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A total of 17 energy companies have collapsed since the start of September.
Another four energy suppliers have gone bust in a single day as historic gas market highs continue to rip through the UK's energy market amid fresh fears that Russia may curb gas supplies to Europe.

The energy regulator, Ofgem, said the collapse of four small energy suppliers on Tuesday would leave about 24,000 households in need of a new supplier, and bring the total number of bust energy companies to 17 since the start of September, affecting more than 2 million households.

The flurry of failures follows rocketing global energy market prices due to a sudden surge in demand for gas as economies began to shrug off restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Gas markets have reached record highs in recent weeks, leading to one of the sharpest increases in home energy bills and fears of a cost-of-living crisis this winter.

Comment: It's unlikely to be a sign of a strong and stable economy when tens of companies go bust in such a short period, but then it's not the only sign that the global economy is on the precipice of another collapse: And check out SOTT radio's: