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    The push towards accepting satanism in the mainstream is surreal these days..

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    Quote Posted by s7e6e (here)
    The push towards accepting satanism in the mainstream is surreal these days..
    The bad is good attitude is unreal!

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    Head Of Denmark's Medicine Agency Faints During Conference Announcing AstraZeneca Discontinuation
    Jeez!!! I've never seen anyone go down quite like that.

    (...I wonder if it was on live TV...?)

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    Quote Posted by Constance (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

    (...I wonder if it was on live TV...?)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56744474
    ...During the press conference the head of Denmark's Medicines Agency, Tanja Erichsen, fainted and was taken to hospital as a precaution. The agency later tweeted that she had recovered...
    I guess so...
    Yes, the BBC showed the video. (For a short while!!)


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    The Ontario Premiere just finished speaking live - Ontario will be locked down with the stay at home order for another 2 weeks.

    It was odd though, as if he was trying to make things sound bad without having the stats to back it. Almost like the orders are from "a level above him" and he has to do what he is told. That is the feeling that I got from it. You know when someone is talking to you and they just don't come across as being truthful? It was like I could feel his stress because he was uncomfortable saying what he had to say. But maybe he is always sort of like that? Anyone else care to share an opinion on this?

    What is new from the last few weeks?
    - He said police will be stopping vehicles in order to ask them why they are out of their homes, where are they going and they have to show I.D. This is a push because police usually need probably cause and this crosses the line for Canadians (similar as in the U.S.) you don't have to give info like your name unless you have broken the law. I am sure most people will cooperate, but some will stand hard for their rights.

    - He spoke about closing the borders to the provinces on our east and west borders. (Except to essential things.) He seemed to be asking (pleading?) with the National Government to bring stricter international border regulations.

    - He was asking the Canadian government to provide Ontario with more vaccines - because that is what the problem is apparently.

    - Essential businesses have to operate at 25% capacity. (But I thought we were already doing that.)

    - He exclaimed that many people are arriving into Ontario through airlines and that we have to test them because they are bringing covid into our province. (But we already have this in place.)

    - But they are going to close down golf courses. I mean come on - you know how many people congregate on those fairways. (yeah, sarcasm) Geeez, why not let people walk through a field with their friend? They stop, hit a ball and walk some more. Crazy.

    - He said he saw a lot of people going into public parks and that has to stop. But he also said that it was ok to go outside and get exercise and walk your dog and stuff like that. So, I don't know where he was going with that.


    There were a few other things, but really it felt like they are trying to make something out of nothing.

    They said that they are stopping more surgeries and opening more beds in the hospitals.


    There are 700 people in ICU in the hospitals in Ontario with covid (apparently, but it does not say the age of the people). The population in Ontario is around 14.5 million.

    So, this is a critical situation? I think he used the word "inferno" or "like a wild fire". *sigh*
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    US Postal Service is using its 'law enforcement arm' to covertly track
    Americans' social media posts and flag 'inflammatory' messages
    to government agencies ahead of protests


    today the Daily News reported and updated the following:
    • A leaked bulletin details how the 'law enforcement arm' of the USPS collected data as part of the Internet Covert Operations Program or iCOP
    • Analysts are said to have looked through posts on Facebook, Parler and Telegram flagging 'inflammatory' messages to government agencies
    • An alleged member of the right wing Proud Boys is named, among others who did not appear to have posted anything threatening in the memo
    • It is unclear why the US Postal Inspection Service is putting resources into surveillance or how iCOP is funded; the USPS was hit hard by the pandemic
    • One law professor said: 'I don't understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues'
    • The US Postal Inspection Service said it 'has federal law enforcement officers, Postal Inspectors, who enforce approximately 200 federal laws'
    • It adds that iCOP 'assesses threats to Postal Service employees and its infrastructure by monitoring publicly available open source information'


    "The United States Postal Service is using its law enforcement arm to track Americans' social media posts ahead of protests, according to a report Wednesday.

    A leaked bulletin first reported by Yahoo News details how the US Postal Inspection Service collected data as part of the Internet Covert Operations Program or iCOP.

    Analysts are said to have looked through posts on Facebook, Parler and Telegram before flagging 'inflammatory' messages to other government agencies.

    An alleged member of the right wing Proud Boys is named, among others who did not appear to have posted anything threatening.

    It is unclear exactly why the USPIS is putting resources into surveillance or how iCOP is funded. The USPS was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. In August last year it reported losing $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June.

    University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone told Yahoo: 'I don't understand why the government would go to the Postal Service for examining the internet for security issues.'

    Rachel Levinson-Waldman, deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice's liberty and national security program called the tracking 'bizarre'.

    DailyMail.com has contacted the US Postal Inspection Service for comment. "

    article here:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...er_dailymailus


    the image above depicts an internal bulletin labeled: Situational Awareness Bulletin from Analysts with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Internet Covert Operations Program (ICOP) which reported having:

    "monitored significant activity regarding planned protests occurring Internationally AND Domestically ... "

    complete with accompanying screenshots of actual event web pages and "Analysis" breakdown report.



    Analysts are said to have looked through posts on Facebook, Parler and
    Telegram before flagging 'inflammatory' messages to government agencies

    the article continued by saying:

    "Levinson-Waldman added: 'If the individuals they're monitoring are carrying out or planning criminal activity, that should be the purview of the FBI.

    'If they're simply engaging in lawfully protected speech,
    even if it's odious or objectionable, then monitoring them
    on that basis raises serious constitutional concerns.
    '


    "The US Postal Inspection Service said in a statement to Yahoo: 'The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the primary law enforcement, crime prevention, and security arm of the U.S. Postal Service.'

    'As such, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has federal law enforcement officers, Postal Inspectors, who enforce approximately 200 federal laws to achieve the agency's mission: protect the U.S. Postal Service and its employees, infrastructure, and customers; enforce the laws that defend the nation's mail system from illegal or dangerous use; and ensure public trust in the mail."

    source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...er_dailymailus
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    **UPDATE ** posted wrong one initially .. thanks for the tip!!!

    for us in the United States, today, April 21 is the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of England



    from Newsweekl:

    "Queen Elizabeth II marks her 95th birthday today—just 12 days after the death of Prince Philip, her husband of 73 years.

    The world mourned on Saturday as the Duke of Edinburgh's coffin was carried into St. George's Chapel for his final journey.

    However, while Elizabeth had her family by her side then, she begins a new era of her reign in isolation amid COVID restrictions.

    The world's longest-reigning monarch today marks 95 years of her life without the man she called her "strength and stay."



    The Queen will spend the day at Windsor Castle, where she has been living during the pandemic.

    Socializing indoors in Britain is still not allowed but friends and family can gather in groups of six outdoors.

    Prince Charles will not be with her as he has already traveled to Wales, where he will process the aftermath of his father's death surrounded by the breathtaking countryside of Carmarthenshire."

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    today the New York Times Reports:

    G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them)

    "As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests."


    April 21, 2021

    "Republican legislators in Oklahoma and Iowa have passed bills granting immunity to drivers whose vehicles strike and injure protesters in public streets.

    A Republican proposal in Indiana would bar anyone convicted of unlawful assembly from holding state employment, including elected office. A Minnesota bill would prohibit those convicted of unlawful protesting from receiving student loans, unemployment benefits or housing assistance.

    And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed sweeping legislation this week that toughened existing laws governing public disorder and created a harsh new level of infractions — a bill he’s called “the strongest anti-looting, anti-rioting, pro-law-enforcement piece of legislation in the country.”

    The measures are part of a wave of new anti-protest legislation, sponsored and supported by Republicans, in the 11 months since Black Lives Matter protests swept the country following the death of George Floyd. The Minneapolis police officer who killed Mr. Floyd, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on Tuesday on murder and manslaughter charges, a cathartic end to weeks of tension.

    But while Democrats seized on Mr. Floyd’s death last May to highlight racism in policing and other forms of social injustice, Republicans responded to a summer of protests by proposing a raft of punitive new measures governing the right to lawfully assemble. G.O.P. lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills during the 2021 legislative session — more than twice as many proposals as in any other year, according to Elly Page, a senior legal adviser at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, which tracks legislation limiting the right to protest."

    Some, like Mr. DeSantis, are labeling them “anti-riot” bills, conflating the right to peaceful protest with the rioting and looting that sometimes resulted from such protests.


    Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has used the term “anti-riot” bills for legislation that limits the right to protest.Credit...Phil Sears/Associated Press


    The laws carry forward the hyperbolic message Republicans have been pushing in the 11 months since Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice swept the country: that Democrats are tolerant of violent and criminal actions from those who protest against racial injustice. And the legislation underscores the extent to which support for law enforcement personnel and opposition to protests have become part of the bedrock of G.O.P. orthodoxy and a likely pillar of the platform the party will take into next year’s midterms.

    “This is consistent with the general trend of legislators’ responding to powerful and persuasive protests by seeking to silence them rather than engaging with the message of the protests,” said Vera Eidelman, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union. “If anything, the lesson from the last year, and decades, is not that we need to give more tools to police and prosecutors, it’s that they abuse the tools they already have.”

    Laws already exist to punish rioting, and civil rights advocates worry that the new bills violate rights of lawful assembly and free speech protected under the First Amendment. The overwhelming majority of last summer’s nationwide Black Lives Matter protests were peaceful — more than 96 percent involved no property damage or police injuries, according to The Washington Post, which also found that police officers or counterprotesters often instigated violence.

    Most of the protests held across Florida last summer were also peaceful, though a few in Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville produced some episodes of violence, including the burning of a police car and a sporting goods store. Still, as they embraced the bill that Mr. DeSantis signed into law, Republican leaders expressed scorn for cities that trim police budgets and tolerate protesters who disrupt business and traffic.

    “We weren’t going to allow Florida to become Seattle,” said Chris Sprowls, a Republican who is the speaker of the Florida House, mentioning cities where protests lasted for months last year and demonstrators frequently clashed with the police. “We were not going to allow Florida to become Portland.”

    George Floyd death: Protests erupt across U.S.


    The Florida law imposes harsher penalties for existing public disorder crimes, turning misdemeanor offenses into felonies, creating new felony offenses and preventing defendants from being released on bail until they have appeared before a judge. A survey conducted in January by Ryan D. Tyson, a Republican pollster, found broad support in the state for harsher penalties against protesters “who damage personal and business property or assault law enforcement.”

    But the law goes farther. If a local government chooses to decrease its law enforcement budget — to “defund the police,” as Mr. DeSantis put it — the measure provides a new mechanism for a prosecutor or a city or county commissioner to appeal the reduction to the state.

    The law also increases penalties for taking down monuments, including Confederate ones, making the offense a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. It makes it easier for anyone who injures a protester, such as by driving into a crowd, to escape civil liability."

    full article here


    this is proposed legislation that is coming in response to the protests

    so how it works is that when legislators WANT "something"?

    they need support and a catalyst to achieve it

    KNOWING that it is highly UNLIKELY that the masses will fulfill OUR response-ability to OVERSEE OUR public servants

    when as a people we FAIL to assert OUR will

    we can be certain that there will ALWAYS be those ready to assert THEIRS instead

    ALWAYS

    everyone must come to their own conclusions in this matter and then choose what their response (or lack thereof) will be

    for me? this would be ONE instance that MY personal view is:

    Yes! MAKE THEM STOP THE DESTRUCTION IMMEDIATELY


    However ..............

    a higher, prevalent BASIC FOUNDATIONAL belief i hold as a cornerstone to my Being and GUIDE to action and choice is:

    EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO CHOOSE


    even choices i personally disagree with ..

    and this bill would seek to curtail the rights of people to CHOOSE protest their views at least in this manner

    so though i am ALL for it?

    i cannot in good conscience FAIL to champion the right of expression of people to choose

    THAT right of choice supersedes ALL..
    what i personally "like" or "dislike"? "agree with "? or "disagree" with? is irrelevant

    the RIGHT of People to CHOOSE is paramount instead and i defer to that

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    Scoop: Caitlyn Jenner makes it official for California governor


    AXIOM reported today:

    Former Olympic decathlete and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner on Friday officially announced her bid for governor of California.

    The big picture:

    Jenner, a longtime Republican, is seeking to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election, hoping her celebrity status and name recognition can yield an upset in the nation's most populous state.
    • But in deep-blue California, she's decidedly not branding herself as a Trump Republican even as she's counting on some of the former president's advisers to drive her strategy.

    She's assembled a team

    of prominent GOP operatives including Tony Fabrizio, the top pollster on Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns, Ryan Erwin, founder of RedRock Strategies, and Tyler Deaton, president of Allegiance Strategies.
    • She's also hired Steven Cheung, a former Trump White House and campaign communications hand who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful 2003 recall campaign.
    • Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale, a personal friend of Jenner’s, has helped her assemble her team but doesn’t plan to take an official title on the campaign.
    • The campaign's website and WinRed donation page are set to go live today.

    Jenner said in a statement

    that "Sacramento needs an honest leader with a clear vision" and that "for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people."
    • The statement decries California's taxes as "too high" and criticizes an "over-restrictive lockdown" response to the COVID pandemic including on in-person schooling.
    • "This is Gavin Newsom’s California, where he orders us to stay home but goes out to dinner with his lobbyist friends."

    A campaign adviser tells Axios

    that Jenner has greater name ID than Newsom and can command the kind of earned media that "will go to every possible demographic you could think of."

    Jenner, a trans woman, "is very socially liberal,” the adviser said. "She's running as someone that's socially liberal and fiscally conservative."

    Don't forget:

    Jenner publicly voiced support for Trump until 2018, when he rolled back federal guidelines allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice. "My hope in him ... was misplaced," she wrote.

    "
    • Certainly she has not seen eye-to-eye with [Trump] on a lot of things," the adviser said. "I think that Caitlyn will talk to anyone, Democrat or Republican. Donald Trump is not going to be the deciding factor for the state of California."

    The big picture:

    Jenner's team is convinced that the race is "totally winnable," but recent polling shows the scale of the challenge.
    • A statewide survey this month had support for recalling Newsom at just 40 percent.
    • That's just one of two contests Jenner would have to win—if a majority votes to recall Newsom, voters then select from the huge group of candidates vying to replace him.

    article here:
    https://www.axios.com/caitlyn-jenner...ed2a9399f.html



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    JUST IN - Fireball lights up the sky over southern France.



    the tweet does not seem to embed .. here is the direct link to see the video. it is not even a minute but absolutely extraordinary ...

    https://twitter.com/SergeZaka/status...91934171664385

    i found a Youtube



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    Quote Posted by iota (here)
    JUST IN - Fireball lights up the sky over southern France.



    the tweet does not seem to embed .. here is the direct link to see the video. it is not even a minute but absolutely extraordinary ...

    https://twitter.com/SergeZaka/status...91934171664385

    i found a Youtube



    (may they soon go the way of Myspace with cohort Google)
    I saw a slightly smaller one here in Perth (western Australia) on Friday night about midnight, very bright. We have been placed into lockdown until Monday, but we shall see: the Vax uptake is poor here, they want to build back the fear

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    Quote Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
    Quote Posted by iota (here)
    JUST IN - Fireball lights up the sky over southern France.



    the tweet does not seem to embed .. here is the direct link to see the video. it is not even a minute but absolutely extraordinary ...

    https://twitter.com/SergeZaka/status...91934171664385

    i found a Youtube



    (may they soon go the way of Myspace with cohort Google)
    I saw a slightly smaller one here in Perth (western Australia) on Friday night about midnight, very bright. We have been placed into lockdown until Monday, but we shall see: the Vax uptake is poor here, they want to build back the fear
    sorry about lockdown status .. your country has a good half dozen very, very good mates of mine ... sigh ...

    maybe it was the Lyrid meteor shower?





    2021 Lyrid meteor shower



    The Lyrids are an Earth Day meteor shower, peaking on the morning of April 22. Also, try the next morning, April 23.


    "The annual Lyrid meteor shower always brings an end to the meteor drought, which happens each year between January and mid-April. There are no major meteor showers during that time, as you can see by looking at EarthSky’s meteor shower guide. The Lyrids are active each year from about April 16 to 25. In 2021, we expect the shower to peak in the predawn hours on Thursday, April 22. The following morning (April 23) might be good too, if you’re game.

    By April, after the months of meteor drought, many meteor-watchers are itching to get going! So – though they produce only 10 to 15 meteors per hour at their peak – the Lyrids are always welcome.

    No matter where you are on Earth, the best time to watch is typically between midnight and dawn. Or this year, in 2021, the moon was new on April 12. That means that – during the week or so the Lyrids will be at their best – your best viewing will likely come between moonset and dawn. By April 19, for example, a fairly bright moon will be back in the evening sky, but it’ll set before the peak predawn hours. Find out the moon’s setting time in your sky via TimeandDate. Keep reading to find three solid tips for watching the 2021 Lyrids"


    Lyrid meteors radiate from near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. You don’t need to identify Vega or Lyra in order to watch the Lyrid meteor shower. The meteors radiate from there, but will appear unexpectedly, in any and all parts of the sky.




    Tip #1: Learn about this shower’s radiant point. If you trace the paths of all the Lyrid meteors backward, they seem to radiate from the constellation Lyra the Harp, near the brilliant star Vega. This is only a chance alignment, for these meteors burn up in the atmosphere about 60 miles (100 km) up. Meanwhile, Vega lies trillions of times farther away at 25 light-years.

    Yet it’s from Vega’s constellation Lyra that the Lyrid meteor shower takes its name."

    full article here:
    https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essen...-meteor-shower

    here is awesome vid captured a while back over Perth


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    Yes, could be, I always welcome seeing meteors, it is like a festive reminder of the universe.

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    Hollywood actor Zachary Horwitz attends a screening of “Tresspassers” in 2018 at the FrightFest horror film festival in London. He appeared in the film under the screen name Zach Avery.(Zuma Press)

    A rising actor, fake HBO deals and one of Hollywood’s most audacious Ponzi schemes


    By MICHAEL FINNEGAN | LOS ANGELES TIMES EXCLUSIVE

    "The promise of easy money brought Jim Russell to a bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

    Russell, a steel company executive from Las Vegas, had come to meet Zachary Horwitz, a low-level actor seeking investors for his film company.

    Horwitz made it sound simple: He would use Russell’s money to buy the rights to cheap movies — “Slasher Party,” “Satanic Panic” and the like — and then resell them to HBO for distribution in Latin America. He’d pay Russell back in six months with a 15% profit.

    Russell had already wired Horwitz more than half a million dollars after a friend vouched for the 30-year-old actor.

    Now, Horwitz was offering a chance to invest much more.

    At dinner that night in 2017, Russell was intrigued but nervous. What would happen if HBO declined to buy the rights to a film, he asked.

    “HBO has never backed out,” Horwitz replied, according to Russell.
    Over the next two years, Russell and his partners made $80 million in loans to the actor’s company. They thought they were financing scores of deals to buy and sell film rights.

    In reality, they’d been lured into what federal investigators describe as one of the most audacious Ponzi schemes in Hollywood history.

    Horwitz collected $690 million from investors for movie deals authorities say were fictitious. The HBO and Netflix contracts he used to convince Russell and others that his business was legitimate were forgeries, the government says.

    For years, Horwitz kept the con going by using loans from one group of investors to repay what he’d borrowed from another, according to a federal criminal complaint. The investors are now trying to recover $235 million that he never repaid.

    The alleged scam opened a money spigot that enabled the actor to live like a studio boss in a lavish Westside home with a screening room, prosecutors say. Horwitz traveled by private jet.

    His April 6 arrest on a fraud charge followed a century-old Hollywood tradition of accused swindlers running get-rich-quick schemes that exploit investors’ attraction to the glamour of a movie business they know little about.

    Hundreds of emails, text messages and other documents filed in court in Los Angeles and Chicago reveal the vast scale of Horwitz’s operation and show how it ultimately spun out of control. Lawyers for Horwitz, 34, did not respond to requests for comment.

    His alleged victims include three of his close friends from college, who roped in parents, grandparents, siblings, in-laws and others, some of whom lost their retirement savings, said Brian Michael, the friends’ attorney.

    “It’s been financially catastrophic and emotionally devastating,” he said.

    The financial collapse came just as Horwitz’s acting career — under the screen name Zach Avery — was taking off. He starred last year in “Last Moment of Clarity” with Brian Cox, who plays the patriarch Logan Roy on the HBO series “Succession.” He also has a leading role in the upcoming thriller “Gateway,” a feature film with Olivia Munn and Bruce Dern.

    Two filmmakers said producers sometimes “attached” Horwitz to a cast regardless of talent.

    In a scene from “Trespassers,” a 2018 horror film shot in Malibu, Horwitz writhes on the deck of a swimming pool with a thick dagger plunged into his belly. The director, Orson Oblowitz, was unimpressed by his acting, but he also said he wondered whether the actor’s arrest might bestow “a new cult status” on the movie.

    “It’s mind-blowing,” he said. “This dude does not strike me as a criminal mastermind. I am amazed.”

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    John Kerry with Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif s


    Leaked Audio reveal that Former Secretary of State
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    Hours ago, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called for Kerry's resignation in a floor speech, one of several senators to do so Monday.


    this has sent reverberations throughout the Democratic party of implications of treason to the Highest levels since this occurred during the Obama administration where Biden was Vice President.

    the litany of misdeeds are outlined in the video



    JUST BY WAY OF REMINDER



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    NOW They’re CUTTING You OFF!
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    From the email update
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    "There's been a lot of debate about shot passports but now they're coming.

    In the video above, I explain how we now have a decree on medical passports from the president of the European Commission, a former Bilderberg member, who without a vote just decided herself that Americans will need a shot to travel to the European Union in 2021.

    Also, I cover Fauci flip flopping again and major data from Texas and Florida which are outperforming lockdown states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York.

    As well as how hundreds of US scientists could be compromised by China and how Bill Gates is moving into New York City financially at a time American cities are decaying.

    Then on Luke Uncensored, I break down what's going on in India and how high shot rates can be correlated with high cases. Plus I go over the importance of a certain vitamin that is essential for your health."
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