Daily News Roundup

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Rush Limbaugh: The True Story of Thanksgiving
Rush Limbaugh tells the true story of Thanksgiving every year. Before he reads the true Thanksgiving story, Rush explains how the modern multicultural Thanksgiving is taught. The video is from 2015.
Watch the 14:21 minute video.

Metzgar: How The Civil War Gave Us Today’s Thanksgiving, And What It Can Teach Us
Our Thanksgiving celebration originated in our nation’s worst period of turmoil and bloodshed: the Civil War. Its lessons can help us today. Thankfully, the roots of our Thanksgiving celebration—like the discipline of thanksgiving itself—go deeper than happy feelings over food and football. Most of us know the story of the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by that tiny band of Separatists at Plymouth in 1621. However, we may not realize that our modern Thanksgiving celebration originated in our nation’s worst period of turmoil and bloodshed: the Civil War. In that story, there are lessons that can help us today. Read more at The Federalist.

NOTABLE QUOTE

Dr. Lee Merritt discusses how Nazi doctors came to put the state over their patients: “If you don’t study history you are deemed to repeat it. And I think it’s a little bit more than that. I think the problem we have is that we don’t see ourself in this history.”

Gabriel Powell contributor to The Federalist:  . . . a Marine who has requested an exemption can still choose to receive a vaccine. Simmons points out the palpable irony of the situation: Marines who “took an oath to protect and defend our country from enemies foreign and domestic and fight for the freedoms of the Constitution” are now being denied one of its most cherished rights, “religious liberty.”

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. contributor to American Thinker: instead of transparency, we see this, “FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data.” Is this, “part of the FDA’s commitment to transparency” as the FDA itself claims? This is the same FDA that took only 108 days to review Pfizer’s clinical trial data, deeming it safe and effective enough for FDA approval. But for the public, the FDA needs 20,000 days to “review” the same data before public release.

Evita Duffy contributor to The Federalist: Any able-bodied man over 16 years old had a moral obligation to defend Kenosha against vandals, looters, and arsonists attacking while police stood down.

Citizen Free Press: On Friday, the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) voted to soften the language used to refer to sex offenders in the state board’s standards and guidelines. The board voted 10-6 to change the term sex offenders to “adults who commit sexual offenses” in its Standards and Guidelines for the Assessment, Evaluation, Treatment and Behavioral Monitoring of Adult Sex Offenders.

JANUARY 6

Fairbanks: January 6 Protester Sends Letter From Jail, Begs for Help, Says ‘Police Repeatedly Tried to Incite a Riot’
It’s no longer amusing. Apparently, I’m being “pushy”, and showing a “lack of trust” in my lawyers by wanting to see the charges and evidence against me with my own eyes. I’m on my 3rd defense attorney now and trying for a new one. None have filed any motions on my behalf, and they keep telling me to stay in jail quietly while the Prosecutors take the time they need to build a case against me! I’ve been wearing the same contact lenses since January 7th. My eyes hurt.  My money’s gone, and my career as a traveling welder might be over.  The Democrat’s dream for our country is a reality now.  Meanwhile, the guards here strut around in their “Black Lives Matter” face masks, being abusive, and shoving their racist propaganda down our throats; papers and magazines that openly  say that “white people” are devils, and dogs, and that we’re lower than swine… claiming black men are gods. This racist, religious, cult propaganda is shoveled at us daily… but it was a 3  month battle for me to get a Bible! And they call US racist for wanting a fair election?!?
Read more at The Gateway Pundit.

GOP

Hochman: 21 House Republicans Wave the Pink and Blue Flag
Why are they supporting legislation that could arm the transgender movement’s already robust efforts to silence dissent with the full force of the civil-rights bureaucracy? […] Now, powerful activist groups are mounting a final push to make sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) a federally protected class under civil-rights law, stamping gender ideology with the legitimating imprimatur of the American legal regime. With all of the anti-discrimination protections afforded to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, and disability, such legislation would elevate transgenderism to the place of a fixed category with a positive right to affirmation in the public square. But perhaps more worryingly, it could arm the transgender movement’s already extraordinary efforts to silence dissent with the full force of the civil-rights bureaucracy. So why do 21 House Republicans want to help make it happen? […] The Fairness For All Act (FFAA), an all-Republican bill that would make SOGI a federally protected class in return for certain “right to discriminate” carve-outs for dissenting religious institutions, was originally introduced in 2019 by Representative Chris Stewart of Utah. Stewart, whose district went for Donald Trump by 16 points in 2020 — up two from 14 points in 2016 — reintroduced the bill at the outset of the 2021 congressional session with the backing of such well-known Republicans as Elise Stefanik, Nancy Mace, and Burgess Owens. This is the full list of the FFAA’s co-sponsors: . . .
Read more at National Review.

FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL

Atlas: I Watched The Nation’s ‘Top Scientists’ Lie About COVID And Get Away With It
After watching this debacle on TV, I knew full well what was coming later that day. The media would latch on to this and create even more public panic. This is an excerpt from the author’s new book, “A Plague Upon Our House,” which releases December 7 and is available now for preorder. [CDC Director Robert] Redfield’s congressional testimony on September 23 immediately caught my attention. I watched in disbelief as Redfield told Congress that “more than 90 percent of the population”—more than three hundred million people in the US—remains susceptible to the illness. The statement was based on incomplete and outdated data, as well as an apparent lack of understanding of the literature, and it struck me as one of the most erroneous and fear-inducing proclamations of any public health official to that moment. Approximately two hundred thousand Americans had already died from COVID; the last thing the public needed was an exaggeration of the future risks, implying to some that ten times that number could still die.
Read more at The Federalist.

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATE

Mercola: How Covid-19 Jab Benefits Are Exaggerated</strong
In a November 12, 2021, blog post,1 Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., reviews how the benefits of the COVID-19 shots have been exaggerated by the drug companies and misrepresented to the public by an uncritical media. She has previously given many lectures on how the drug companies conflated absolute and relative risks for statin drugs.2 Demasi was a respected Australian science presenter at ABC television until she produced a Catalyst report on the dangers of Wi-Fi and cellphones. In the wake of the controversy it raised, she and 11 of her staff members were axed and the episode retracted.3 That was 2016. Today, Demasi is one of the few professional journalists seeking and publishing the truth about COVID-19. In her post, Demasi highlights one of the most commonly used tricks in the book — conflating absolute and relative risk reduction. As noted by Demasi, AstraZeneca and Australia’s health minister, Greg Hunt, claimed the AstraZeneca injection offered “100% protection” against COVID-19 death. How did they get this number? Demasi explains:4 “In the trial5 of 23,848 subjects … there was one death in the placebo group and no deaths in the vaccinated group. One less death out of a total of one, indeed was a relative reduction of 100%, but the absolute reduction was 0.01%.” Similarly, Pfizer’s COVID shot was said to be 95% effective against the infection, but this too is the relative risk reduction, not the absolute reduction. The absolute risk reduction for Pfizer’s shot was a meager 0.84%.
Read more at NOQ Report.

GOVERNMENT HAS SEIZED CONTROL OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

Marik: Doctors, Not Administrators, Should Be Treating Patients
Before COVID-19, physicians routinely treated patients based on our best clinical judgment. But politics have corrupted the practice of medicine, and today hospitals tie physicians’ hands while their patients needlessly suffer and die. Patients at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital where I work are dying because they are unjustifiably and unlawfully being denied safe and effective treatments that their attending physician determines to be medically appropriate. This same scene is playing out in hospitals across the country. It must stop. […]  As the pandemic wore on, we pooled our experience treating patients on the frontlines, and based on emerging data from academic studies, including peer-reviewed randomized-controlled trials (RCTs), we expanded our treatment protocol to employ various FDA-approved medicines. This includes fluvoxamine, methylprednisolone, ascorbic acid, thiamine, heparin, vitamin D, zinc, melatonin, and ivermectin.  I’ve used this treatment protocol to reduce COVID-19 deaths in my intensive care unit by up to 50 percent. And one of my colleagues, Dr. Joseph Varon, a renowned critical care specialist, has used this protocol at his hospitals in Houston since the beginning of the pandemic and has consistently maintained a mortality rate for COVID-19 patients between 4.4 percent and 7 percent. By comparison, the average nationwide mortality in hospitals is around 23 percent. Yet Sentara Norfolk Hospital System has now prohibited the use of several medicines in this treatment protocol, . . .[…]  The prohibition is also illegal. Virginia law states . . .
Read more at American Greatness.

Kulldorff and Battacharya: Top Medical News Site Lies About Doctors Who Noticed Lockdowns Didn’t Work
Politicians and journalists will sometimes mischaracterize their opponents’ views and then argue against those phantoms rather than real views. It is a cheap but effective political and journalistic trick. Medical news sources have adopted this tactic during the pandemic, with disastrous consequences for public trust in public health and medicine. The latest example comes from Medpage Today, a medical news site popular among doctors. Many physicians get their pandemic information from Medpage Today. Once trusted sources that provided the latest medical information from a variety of perspectives, medical news sites like Medpage Today have turned into political mouthpieces for governments that imposed unsuccessful lockdown policies resulting in more than 750,000 U.S. Covid deaths and enormous collateral damage.
Read more The Federalist.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

Smith: What Biden’s Nomination of Omarova Tells Us
Not long ago, who would have believed that an American president would nominate a communist for an important U.S. Treasury job?  Not a “I’ve seen the light” repentant communist, like Whittaker Chambers, but a person who must believe that the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union was fake, like the moon landings that tinfoil-hatters swear never happened. Joe Biden is the president and Saule Omarova is the communist — or communist sympathizer, depending on reports.  Then again, Omarova disavows being a Bolshevik.  Easier to slip through the confirmation process with a disavowal, possibly.  In any event, Omarova isn’t exactly a small government, free-market sort.  Her positions are radical.  Marxism (aka communism) isn’t a dirty word among Democrats and progressives nowadays.  […]  Whether it’s Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia, Romania, Nazi Germany, or the aforementioned American cities, wherever leftists promise heaven-on-earth, they inevitably deliver some form of hell. Rule # 1 for the Left: Don’t ever permit facts and reality to interfere with the quest for a perfected world. A century of communist failure, peoples consigned to gray, wretched existences, and mass murder (estimated in the 100-million range) are denied or rationalized away or simply memory-holed. Communism is a testament to the human capacity to invest in the most cockeyed beliefs.  It’s a pseudo-religion that disdains facts, evidence, and reality; it feeds conceits.  Zealously held fanciful beliefs fuel dangerous delusions. […]  Why is an Omarova nomination possible today?
Read more at American Thinker.

Shaw: The Disturbing And Shocking Plan To Replace Kamala Harris
I received this gossip directly from a Washington insider, It will be difficult to confirm until it happens, if it happens. I hesitated before sharing it with you. I still have doubts over the wisdom of writing about it, but it points to cogs currently in motion behind closed doors.[…] The suspicion of an impasse between the Biden and Harris camps came to the fore with gossip/information I received last week. The bad blood between them stems from Jill Biden, wife of the President, who, I heard, hates Kamala Harris. It goes back to when Harris accused Biden of being a racist during the televised Democrat presidential debates.
That hurt for two reasons. Biden has a troubling past over race issues based on his incriminating comments throughout the years and his close friendships with Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. Given the racial climate of left-wing politics, Jill Biden knew this could have seriously damaged her husband’s chances of reaching the White House, a goal she was as determined to achieve as her husband. Jill Biden also knew that Harris had intimately attached herself to the radical wing of the Democrat Party and that this could have swung the decision against her husband, particularly if her husband’s past became a major issue.
[…]  One of the things that scares them as much as it does the Republicans is that President Harris would promote a member of the Squad to become the next House leader, replacing a probably retiring Nancy Pelosi. So, behind the scenes, the cabal is plotting a succession acceptable to them. It begins with the premise that Harris must go before Biden does. Two names were mulled over.
Read more at American Thinker.

Lee: House Dems demand Senate ignore parliamentarian and allow ‘pathway to citizenship’ under reconciliation rules
A group of House Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., penned a letter urging the Senate’s Democratic leadership to ignore the Senate Parliamentarian ruling that a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants cannot be included in a budget reconciliation bill. “We do understand that the Senate Parliamentarian has issued a memorandum dismissing — despite evidence to the contrary — the budgetary impact of providing a pathway to citizenship,” the read the letter, which was dated Monday and signed by Ocasio-Cortez and 89 House Democrats, reads. “But the role of the Parliamentarian is an advisory one, and the Parliamentarian’s opinion is not binding.”
Read more at Fox News.

Simonson: Border Crossings Are at an All-Time High. The Homeland Security Department Is Prioritizing ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.’
As patrol agents are overwhelmed with an all-time high number of crossings at the southern border, the Department of Homeland Security is prioritizing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in the 2022 fiscal year, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. In a November report that outlined initiatives for agencies such as Customs and Border Protection, DHS listed compliance with federal regulations as first among six “priorities.” The second was “diversity, equity, and inclusion”—above “customer experience” and “cybersecurity.” The department sent the report to staff members following a town hall-like meeting, during which agency heads emphasized to staff the importance of DEI efforts. That ranking concerned at least one senior DHS official, who criticized leadership for focusing on left-wing political initiatives while the southern border “remains a shit show.”
Read more at The Washington Free Beacon.

BANNONS WAR ROOM: AIRED 11/22/2021

‘Hunting Down Of Physicians’ Underway Right Now
Watch the 8:17 minute interview wit Dr. Robert Malone inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology at Rumble.

Episode 1,430 – Waukesha Terrorism And Austria Totalitarianism
Dr. Naomi Wolf is interviewed about the mandated COVID vaccinations. We have to look at the possibility of a massive crime against humanity.
Start the video at the 30:49 minute mark at Rumble.

A CHURCH IN CRISIS

Olohan: Catholic University Celebrates Painting of George Floyd as Jesus Christ, Releases Report on Racism
Paintings depicting George Floyd as Jesus Christ hang in both The Catholic University of America’s campus ministry office and its law school, The Daily Signal has learned.  Catholic University appeared to shrug off responsibility for the painting Monday, telling The Daily Signal that artist Kelly Latimore’s painting “Mama” depicts “the Virgin Mary supporting the body of the dead Christ”—although the artist has indicated repeatedly that his painting depicts both Floyd and Jesus. […]  “It is just another symptom of the liberalization and secularization of our campus,” a junior at Catholic University tells The Daily Signal.
Read more at The Daily Signal.

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