WORLD NEWS
Imposition of Rejected Sunak on Tory Grassroots Shows Party Elite’s Utter Contempt for Their Voters
By forcing Boris Johnson out of the race for Tory leader and imposing Rishi Sunak, explicitly rejected by the party grassroots mere weeks ago, the parliamentary elite showcased their utter contempt for regular conservatives more starkly than ever.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has never been directly elected, and is instead technically invited to form a government by the monarch on the basis of their being able to command a parliamentary majority — in practice, from the elected House of Commons rather than the unelected House of Lords or from outside Parliament altogether, at least since 1902 or, more arguably, 1963.
Biased Broadcasting Corporation: BBC Anchor Suspended for Being ‘Gleeful’ Boris Failed
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been forced to suspend presenter Martine Croxall for expressing open glee over Boris Johnson failing to return as Tory leader and Prime Minister.
Croxall, 53, was presenting a segment on the publicly-funded broadcaster’s dedicated news channel called The Papers shortly after the news that Boris Johnson had chickened out of standing for the Tory leadership broke.
Founded and funded by the British state — anyone who watches live television in the country is required to pay a licence fee or face heavy fines backed by the threat of imprisonment — the BBC is legally obliged to be impartial, although many conservatives and high-profile ex-BBC employees believe this obligation is more honoured in the breach than the observance.
Meanwhile in Britain: Transwoman Uses ‘Her’ Penis to Play Keyboard on Live Television
A transgender comedian in Britain has been praised after stripping naked and using “her” penis to play the keyboard on live television.
Jordan Gray, a British biologically male comedian who identifies as a woman, has been praised by leftists for stripping naked on live television before playing the keyboard with “her” penis.
Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence in Russia upheld
A Russian court rejected Brittney Griner’s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession on Tuesday.
The court ruled to uphold the sentence handed down to the WNBA superstar. However, in the ruling, the court stated that the time Griner will have to serve in prison will be recalculated with her time in pre-trial detention taken into account.
One day in pre-trial detention will be counted as 1.5 days in prison, which means Griner will serve around eight years in prison unless the U.S. and Russia come to an agreement on a potential prisoner swap in the future.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Poll Shows 71 Percent Say US Heading in Wrong Direction 3 Weeks Ahead of 2022 Midterms
Poll Shows 71 Percent Say US Heading in Wrong Direction 3 Weeks Ahead of 2022 Midterms
With fewer than three weeks to go before the 2022 midterm elections, a new poll shows about three-quarters of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track.
About 71 percent of voters said the United States is headed in the wrong direction, and only 20 percent said it’s on the right track, according to a poll by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies for NBC. Pollsters noted that it is the sixth out of seventh of such polls where the wrong track answer has been higher than 70 percent.
In the same vein, some 20 percent of respondents said they believe the U.S. economy will get better over the next year, 26 percent said it will remain about the same, and 50 percent say it will get worse. The 50-percent figure is the highest number on the question dating back to 1994.
A volunteer for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was brutally attacked while canvassing for the campaign in Hialeah, Florida, leaving him with a broken jaw and internal bleeding.
According to the senator, who is facing off against Democrat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) in roughly two weeks, four individuals attacked the canvasser, allegedly telling him that Republicans were not allowed in their neighborhood. The man, who will also require facial reconstruction surgery, was wearing a shirt supporting Rubio and hat supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Biden Says He Wants to Limit Gun Owners to ‘8 Bullets in a Round’
President Joe Biden said on Oct. 23 that he’s pushing a limit on gun owners having more than “eight bullets in a round.”
It’s unclear exactly what Biden meant because a round contains the bullet, propellant, and cartridge—and many people use the term bullet and round interchangeably. He appears to have made a verbal miscue and meant that he wants a federal restriction on magazine capacity, which is consistent with gun control measures that he and other Democrats have previously pushed.
“My legislation says there can be no more than eight bullets in a round,” he told NowThis News on Oct. 23. “The guys doing these mass killings, they have magazines, they call them, that can hold up to 100 bullets in it. That’s just like having an automatic weapon, which we’re not allowed to have by the way, supposedly.”
‘She was 12, I was 30’: Biden’s off-the-cuff remark during speech leaves many confused
Political commentators, social media users and many others have been left confused by a remark made by President Joe Biden during a speech on Friday.
While speaking at the National Education Association headquarters in Washington D.C., President Biden pointed to a woman in the crowd.
You gotta say hi to me,” the president said to the woman, who he apparently recognized. “We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30. But anyway, this woman helped me get an awful lot done.”
At the speech, the audience laughed at the remark, but it’s a comment that has attained a lot of social media attention, particularly in reference to the “She was 12, I was 30” part.
Early Voting and Mail Ballot Turnout Trends Point to 2020 Replay
Nationwide early voting and vote-by-mail turnout trends for the 2022 midterm election reflect a pattern similar to that of the pandemic-skewered 2020 election.
As a result, it may take several days after polls close on Nov. 8 for results to be confirmed in several key battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
In-person early voting periods and vote-by-mail have grown increasingly popular over the last two decades. They became mainstream during the 2020 election when more than 101 million Americans cast early in-person votes or vote-by-mail ballots.
The 2022 early vote and vote-by-mail turnout is expected to easily eclipse the record for midterm elections set in 2018, when more than 5 million voters cast early in-person ballots and 30.4 million voted by mail. The totals this year may come close to matching the number of ballots cast before Election Day in 2020.
According to the University of Florida’s United States Elections Project, as of Oct. 23, more than 7.46 million Americans have already cast their midterm ballots.
CRT Is Being Taught in US Schools, Despite Denials: Study
A new study has determined that critical race theory (CRT) concepts are being taught in U.S. schools, despite denials from some individuals or groups.
Zach Goldberg and Eric Kaufmann from the Manhattan Institute commissioned a study on a “nationally representative sample of 1,505 18- to 20-year-old Americans—a demographic that has yet to graduate from, or only recently graduated from, high school,” asking the students whether they were taught in class or heard from an adult at school about four CRT-related concepts.
Of the cohort, 82.4 percent reported having attended public schools.
The four concepts are “America is a systematically racist country,” “in America, white people have white privilege,” “in America, white people have unconscious biases that negatively affect nonwhite people,” and “America is built on stolen land.” Of these, the majority of respondents said they were taught or heard from an adult at school about at least one of the concepts—62 percent, 69 percent, 57 percent, and 67 percent, respectively.
The respondents also were asked whether they were taught or heard from an adult about two gender-related concepts: “America is a patriarchal society” and “gender is an identity choice, regardless of the biological sex you were born into.” Majorities responded affirmatively to both—53 percent and 51 percent, respectively.
The study also asked the students whether they were taught that “discrimination is the main reason for differences in wealth or other outcomes between races or genders” or that “there are many genders, not just male and female.”
2 GOP Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Soros-Backed Group Over Misusing Federal Money
A former Trump administration official and two Republican lawmakers are demanding an immediate investigation from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over an advocacy group’s use of $8.5 million taxpayer dollars.
Alianza Americas, a pro-mass immigration group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, may have unlawfully used funds granted by agencies under HHS, according to Friday letters by Brian Harrison, the former chief of staff of the department, Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas). Federal grants are banned under U.S. law from being leveraged to weigh on government positions on legislation or policies, including lobbying.
“Despite statutory and regulatory restrictions on lobbying for recipients of federal funding from all federal agencies, forms submitted to the Internal Revenue Service by Alianza Americas appear to show activity in direct violation of the law and federal regulations,” Roy and Van Duyne wrote in an Oct. 21 joint letter sent to HHS Deputy Inspector General Christi Grimm, calling for “a review of all grants received by Alianza Americas as well as the publicly disclosed actions” taken by the group.
Biden Begins Offering Free Flu Vaccines to Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens
Border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the southern border will now be offered a free flu vaccine thanks to an initiative by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
For the first time in American history, border crossers and illegal aliens will be offered free flu vaccines when they arrive at the United States-Mexico border.
New York Judge: Absentee Mail Voting Due to Covid Concerns Is Unconstitutional
A New York Judge ruled that voting by mail via absentee ballots due to Covid-19 concerns is unconstitutional.
In August 2020, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that broadened the definition of “illness,” which included “someone concerned about catching or spreading the coronavirus,” Breitbart News reported.
Vulnerable Democrat Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s Department of Commerce used tax dollars to sponsor an all-ages Halloween drag show that took place over the weekend, the DailyMail.com reported on Monday.
The Wichita event was called the “DADA Ball,” advertised a “free, all-ages evening of music, fashion, drag & dancing,’ and had several sponsors including the Kansas Creative Arts & Industries Commission, which is a part of the Kansas Department of Commerce. Kelly’s Lt. Gov. David Toland leads the department.
Supreme Court Blocks Subpoena of Sen. Graham
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked on Oct. 24 a subpoena of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his testimony to an Atlanta-area grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election.
Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, entered the order. He stayed the subpoena “pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court.”
Graham asked the nation’s top court on Oct. 21 to intervene in the case. A district judge had ordered him to testify, and an appeals court recently upheld the order.
Graham has argued that he’s protected by the U.S. Constitution’s speech or debate clause. The appeals court panel partially agreed.
It stated that Graham can’t be questioned over his “investigatory fact-finding on telephone calls to Georgia election officials” but can be questioned about other matters, including his contact with officials on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, has said that Graham possesses “unique knowledge” regarding the Trump campaign’s efforts to influence post-election activities in the county and elsewhere in Georgia.
Graham’s lawyers said a stay was needed to prevent the questioning from happening.
RNC Files 73 Election Integrity Lawsuits Ahead of 2022 Midterms
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed 73 lawsuits on election issues during the 2022 midterm election cycle, according to its chair.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel confirmed that the committee filed its 73rd lawsuit of 2022 last week, against officials in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“The RNC has filed a new lawsuit against Kalamazoo, MI. Michiganders deserve election transparency, and we are going to court to get it. This is our 73rd case of election integrity litigation this cycle with more to come,” she wrote on Twitter.
Some advocacy groups hailed the bevy of legal challenges.
“After the shortcomings of the last election, a proactive and pre-emptive legal strategy is critical to the election integrity voters deserve in 2022, 2024, and beyond,” Michael Bars, executive director of the Election Transparency Initiative, told Fox News on Oct. 24, adding that there have been “significant strides” to try to bolster voters’ trust in the U.S. election system after allegations of fraud in 2020.
White House Says Unprecedented Illegal Immigration Driven by People Fleeing ‘Falling Regimes’
The unprecedented level of illegal immigration at the U.S.–Mexico border largely stems from people fleeing regimes in three countries, the White House said Oct. 24.
“What we’re seeing, this new migration challenge, is driven by people who are fleeing falling regimes and economic collapse in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and also Cuba,” White House Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing in Washington.
Jean-Pierre appeared to be the first White House official to react after the illegal immigrant arrests at the border in fiscal year 2022 shattered the 2021 number, which had set a new record.
For the first time in U.S. history, more than 2 million arrests were recorded in a fiscal year, after a record-high 227,547 apprehensions in September.
Statistics from Customs and Border Protection show that the number of Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Cuban nationals have spiked in recent months, coming in 245 percent higher in September versus the same month in 2021.
The Biden administration is trying to pivot to deal with the new reality, Jean-Pierre said.
“We are hard at work at driving towards a regional solution to manage this new challenge,” she said, pointing to joint actions undertaken by the United and Mexico this month.
Judge Strikes Down NYC Vaccine Mandate for All City Workers
A New York Supreme Court judge on Monday struck down New York City’s vaccine mandate for all city workers, finding the rule to be unconstitutional, arbitrary, and capricious.
Attorney Chad LaVeglia, who announced the verdict outside the Richmond County courthouse, said the mandate was now “null and void.”
“So, we just defeated the vaccine mandate for every single city employee—not just sanitation,” LaVeglia said in a video on Twitter account NYCforYourself.
The ruling strikes down the mandate that saw over 2,000 city workers fired for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine. LaVeglia said the ruling extends to all public workers, including the New York fire department, the police department, and the Department of Corrections.
“For all the brave men and women who have been our first responders and have been brave through all this are now free, and you should be able to go back to work,” he said.
George Garvey and 15 others who worked at the New York City Department of Sanitation filed the lawsuit on July 20 after they were terminated for failing to comply with the mandate.
Porzio ruled against the city and found the mandate, which allowed exceptions, to have been an arbitrary and capricious order. He said that Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, “made a different decision for similarly situated people based on identical facts” in his Executive Order No. 62.
However, there wasn’t anything in the record to “support the rationality of keeping a vaccination mandate for public employees, while vacating the mandate for private sector employees or creating a carveout for certain professions, like athletes, artists, and performers.”
“This is clearly an arbitrary and capricious action because we are dealing with identical unvaccinated people being treated differently by the same administrative agency,” the judge said in his ruling (pdf).
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Breitbart Business Digest: Biden Tries to Pre-Blame Republicans for the Next Recession
After getting caught flat-footed on inflation, the Biden administration is determined not to be caught off-guard on the recession. Instead of trying to stave off a downturn, however, it appears to be trying to pre-blame Republicans for it.
Last week, for example, President Joe Biden warned that if Republicans seize the congressional majority in next month’s midterm elections, they will “crash the economy.” In particular, Biden argued that Republican attempts to use the debt ceiling to push for lower spending would damage the economy. “If you’re worried about the economy, you need to know this Republican leadership in Congress has made it clear they will crash the economy next year by threatening the full faith and credit of the United States,” Biden said from White House.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DeadBolt ransomware gang tricked into giving victims free decryption keys
Dutch police and other law enforcement agencies have managed to trick the DeadBolt ransomware operators into releasing 150 decryption keys for free.
The method of obtaining decryption keys was found by a Dutch incident response company called Responders.NU, who shared the method with the police. The basis for the trick iss that it was possible to cancel an unconfirmed Bitcoin transaction before payment went through through, but after the decryption key was released.
Because of the large amount of Bitcoin transactions taking place at one time, it can take a while for payment to actually go through. That gave police enough time to block the transactions from going through before the payment actually took place. By then they’d already received the decryption key and could pass it on to the victims. They managed to repeat the process around 150 times before the ransomware gang pulled the plug on their system that gave out the decryption keys.
SURVEILLANCE STATE
‘Elon, The Everywhere’ Becomes A Threat To Political Structure
Between launching four astronauts and 54 satellites into orbit, unveiling an electric freight truck and closing in on taking over Twitter this month, Elon Musk made time to offer unsolicited peace plans for Taiwan and Ukraine, antagonizing those countries’ leaders and irking Washington, too.
Musk, the richest man in the world, then irritated some Pentagon officials by announcing he didn’t want to keep paying for his private satellite service in Ukraine, before later walking back the threat.
As Musk, 51, inserts himself into volatile geopolitical issues, many Washington policymakers worry from the sidelines as he bypasses them.
A two-decade partnership between Musk and the federal government helped the United States return to global dominance in space and shift to electric cars, and made the tech geek an internationally famous CEO. But many in Washington, even as they praise his work in areas of national security, now see Musk as too powerful and too reckless.
Citing Musk’s public ridicule of those who snub him — the billionaire has called President Biden a “damp sock puppet” and said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reminds him of “my friend’s angry mom” — many of the two dozen top government officials interviewed for this article would only speak about Musk on the condition of anonymity. But nearly all described him as being as erratic and arrogant as he is brilliant.
“Elon, The Everywhere” is what one White House official called him. “He believes he is such a gift to mankind that he doesn’t need any guardrails, that he knows best.”
“He sees himself as above the presidency,” said Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian who hosted podcasts on Musk.
Musk declined to comment for this story, but he says he weighs in on important problems and described his mission as “enhancing the future of humanity.” He said his Ukraine plan could avert possible nuclear war, and that his Taiwan proposal could ease dangerous regional tensions.
But Musk’s freelance diplomacy is angering allies at the same time he bids $44 billion to take over a media platform with hundreds of millions of users.
HEALTH
Anal Condoms: What You Should Know
For years, people who wanted to have anal sex using a condom only had one option: conventional condoms not specifically approved for anal penetration. While sex is safer with a condom than without, conventional condoms fail during anal sex more often than during vaginal sex.1
But in February 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of the first condoms proven effective for anal sex. The FDA gave the OK in the hopes of reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), among other reasons.
Read on to learn who makes the condom, where to find it, and what the science says about how well it works.
See Romans Chapter 1:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Dry Shampoo Products Recalled Over Potential Presence of Benzene, Which Can Cause Cancer
Unilever United States issued a voluntary recall of several brands of dry shampoo aerosol products due to “potentially elevated levels” of benzene, a human carcinogen.
According to a company announcement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website, brands include Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI (Rockaholic and Bed Head), and TRESemmé. The recalled products were produced before October 2021, and have been distributed nationwide.
Benzene, a human carcinogen, can be found in many places in the environment. People are exposed to the agent daily, both indoors and outdoors, by inhalation, orally, or through the skin.
Exposure can result in cancers, including leukemia, blood cancer of the bone marrow, and blood disorders, which can be life-threatening.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Battery Fire Turns Electric Vehicle into Unrecognizable Mess in South Dakota
An electric vehicle fire led to a temporary closure of a highway west of Vermillion, South Dakota, last week. The EV’s battery burst into fire, turning the car into an unrecognizable mess after the blaze was eventually put out.
KELOLAND News, and news media outlet based in Sioux Falls, SD, reported:
The Vermillion Fire EMS Department says it happened on Highway 50 near the Business Route exit just after 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Crews arriving on scene found a small car on fire with flames spreading into the ditch.
Because flames had reached the cars high-voltage battery, firefighters secured the area to wait for the battery to cool. Highway 50 eastbound to the Business route was closed for around an hour and a half. The cause is under investigation.
The Vermillion Fire EMS Department responded with four apparatus, two support vehicles, and 12 personnel.
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
America’s Farm Economy Shrinks for 5th Straight Month Under Inflation Strain
The agricultural economy continues to shrink across President Joe Biden’s (D) America as inflation burdens the industry.
Creighton University’s Rural Mainstreet Economic Index currently sits below the growth neutral score of 50, Black Hills Fox reported Sunday.
COVID RELATED NEWS
Dr. Meryl Nass Fights Back Against Unjust Attacks
Dr. Meryl Nass, a board-certified internal medicine physician with special expertise in vaccine safety and vaccine mandates, is one of countless health care professionals who have been targeted for speaking out against the COVID-19 narrative
January 12, 2021, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine ordered the immediate suspension of Nass’ medical license, accusing her of spreading COVID-19 “misinformation” and ordering her to undergo a neuropsychological evaluation
The suspension of her medical license was due to four complaints from strangers related to spreading “misinformation” online and prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine
September 26, 2022, it withdrew six accusations that Nass was spreading misinformation; then, on September 30, 2022, it withdrew more factual allegations related to misinformation
At an October 11, 2022, hearing to defend herself, Nass introduced 286 pages of emails and letters from her patients and others, attesting to her competency as a physician
Thanks, Fauci: Test Scores Show Historic COVID Setbacks For Children Across All States
New national test results show that the pandemic spared no part of the country as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children.
The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis.
Across the country, math scores saw their largest decreases ever. Reading scores dropped to 1992 levels. Nearly four in 10 eighth graders failed to grasp basic math concepts. Not a single state saw a notable improvement in their average test scores, with some simply treading water at best.
Those are the findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — known as the “nation’s report card” — which tested hundreds of thousands of fourth and eighth graders across the country this year. It was the first time the test had been given since 2019, and it’s seen as the first nationally representative study of the pandemic’s impact on learning.
“It is a serious wakeup call for us all,” Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the Education Department, said in an interview. “In NAEP, when we experience a 1- or 2-point decline, we’re talking about it as a significant impact on a student’s achievement. In math, we experienced an 8-point decline — historic for this assessment.”
Researchers usually think of a 10-point gain or drop as equivalent to roughly a year of learning.
The Big Lie: Pfizer Scandal Blown Wide Open, Never Even Tested mRNA Shots For Transmission Of Virus
The premise behind COVID shot mandates and vaccine passports was that by taking the shot, you would protect others, as it would prevent infection and spread of COVID-19
> In early October 2022, during a COVID hearing in the European Parliament, Dutch member Rob Roos questioned Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, about whether Pfizer had in fact tested and confirmed that their mRNA jab would prevent transmission prior to its rollout
> Small admitted that Pfizer never tested whether their jab would prevent transmission because they had to “move at the speed of science to understand what is happening in the market … and we had to do everything at risk”
> We’ve known for well over two years that the shots were never tested for transmission interruption. In October 2020, Peter Doshi, associate editor of The BMJ, highlighted that trials were not designed to reveal whether the vaccines would prevent transmission. Yet everyone in government and media insisted they would do just that
> It was never about science or protecting others. It was always about following a predetermined narrative that sought to get experimental mRNA technology into as many people as possible
Do You Really Understand Your Risk of Dying From COVID?
Polls taken in 2020 and 2021 revealed Americans were wildly confused and misinformed about their true risk of dying from COVID
Based on a new preprint analysis by professor John Ioannidis, there’s no reason for anyone to live in fear anymore, regardless of your age, as your risk of dying from COVID is — and always was — minuscule across the board
Before the COVID jabs were rolled out, if you were 19 or younger, your risk of dying of COVID was 0.0003%; only 3 per 1 million infected with COVID at this age ended up dying. Between ages 60 and 69, the infection fatality rate was 0.501%, i.e., 1 out of 200 infected died
Emerging evidence suggests the shots are causing immune deficiency in some people, thereby actually raising their risk of dying from SARS-CoV-2 infection, even with the now-milder strains
The real-world risk of dying from COVID-19 based on published data from the Irish census bureau and the central statistics office for 2020 and 2021 is as follows: For people under 70, the death rate was 0.014%; under 50 years of age, it was 0.002%, which equates to a 1 in 50,000 risk, or about the same as dying from fire or smoke inhalation. Under 25 years of age, the mortality rate was 0.00018%, or 1 in 500,000 risk of dying from COVID
Another Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Turns Negative Within Months
The effectiveness of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines turns negative against severe COVID-19 months after administration, according to a new study.
A single dose of the Pfizer vaccine was pegged at minus 121 percent effectiveness on day 84 and minus 85 percent effectiveness on day 98. A second Pfizer dose held up better, but still dipped below 50 percent at day 98, researchers concluded.
A single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine turned negative at day 70 and a second dose turned negative at day 84, according to the paper, which was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Negative effectiveness means that a vaccinated person is more likely to experience a condition than an unvaccinated person.
Pfizer and AstraZeneca didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Military Officers Injured After Taking COVID-19 Vaccine Call for End to Pentagon’s Vaccine Mandate
In March, Lt. Col. William P. Anton, along with several other service members, submitted a 100-page report to members of the U.S. House and Senate. The report included statements from various military pilots and other injured service members concerned about the Department of Defense (DoD) vaccine mandate and its alleged negative effects on their health and the nation’s security.
Having served in the military for more than 20 years, Anton said that he is “shocked and frustrated to have only received lukewarm responses from a couple of senators and their staffers.”
“For the most part, there hasn’t really been any action,” Anton told The Epoch Times, using a pseudonym for fear of reprisals.
“Injuries to my fellow service members are happening right before our eyes and we know the solution [stopping the mandate], but no one is doing anything about it,” Anton said.
As more injuries come to light, Anton said he’s disappointed in senior military and civilian leadership.
COVID-19 and Vaccine Can Cause Psychosis, Music Therapy Might Help
In April 2020, a group of doctors at Strasbourg University Hospital in France published a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on a study of 58 ICU patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection during the one-month period from March 3 to April 3, 2020. Out of the 58 ICU patients, 40 showed agitation, while 26 of the 40 agitated patients had confusion according to the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU.
CANCEL CULTURE
Decades of Student Progress Wiped Out; National Math and Reading Scores at Historic Lows: Report
National math test scores in fourth and eighth grades showed the biggest drop since a national testing program began in 1990, and the reading level for the same grades reverted to a level from three decades ago.
Eighth-grade math performance has dropped eight points since 2019, and about a third of students in both grades can’t read at the minimum required level, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report.
NAEP, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” is the only national and continuing assessment program administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Department of Education. The Nation’s Report Card is the gold standard for measuring student academic achievements. The results released on Oct. 24 were based on tests administered in the spring.
GOOD NEWS
Good Guy with a Gun Stops Texas Hospital Attack
A Methodist Health System officer shot and injured a gunman in the Methodist Dallas Medical Center Saturday, ending a threat that had already resulted in two deaths.
ABC News reported an individual shot and killed two hospital employees around 11 a.m. Saturday, prompting reports of an active shooter in the facility.
Methodist Health System-affiliated police responded and an officer found the suspect and shot and injured him.
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