PFIZER’S RESPONSE TO PROJECT VERITAS’S STING FAILS TO CONVINCE

Instapundit--Their statement isn’t going to convince anyone on the fence.

PFIZER’S RESPONSE TO PROJECT VERITAS’S STING FAILS TO CONVINCE:

"There’s a lot of doublespeak and hiding behind language there. While Pfizer insists it performs no gain-of-function research, it goes on to admit that in a “limited number of cases,” the company engineers the COVID-19 virus to “enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.”...

...It’s obfuscatory and confusing at best, and given Pfizer’s history of misleading the public, there’s no reason to take the company’s word for anything.

True.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

25 states hit Biden admin with lawsuit over climate action targeting Americans' retirement savings | Fox Business

25 states hit Biden admin with lawsuit over climate action targeting Americans' retirement savings | Fox Business: 

The lawsuit — led by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and joined by 24 other states including Louisiana, Texas and Virginia — challenges a Department of Labor (DOL) rule unveiled in November and which is set to go into effect on Jan. 30. The rule would open the door for fiduciaries to factor so-called environment, social and governance (ESG) considerations into Americans' retirement accounts, an action the states argued could significantly harm the financial interests of customers.

Tucker Carlson: Shame on NBC News

Excellent! Tax dollars/tuition should never be used to support extreme leftist propaganda!-----Texas bill would ban public universities from financially supporting nonprofit media | The College Fix

Texas bill would ban public universities from financially supporting nonprofit media | The College Fix

• ‘It shouldn’t be coming at the cost of the taxpayer’

Legislation introduced by a Republican Texas state lawmaker seeks to prevent public colleges and universities in the state from providing funding for nonprofit media organizations...

• In a Jan. 10 tweet, Patterson said of The Texas Tribune, a major nonprofit media organization in the state: “And if you’re wondering why the @TexasTribune writes their articles using the radical far left code of conduct.” 
• He then cited donors of the news outlet, which includes left-leaning organizations such as the ACLU of Texas and Equality Texas...

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GDP report reveals ominous Great Depression warning sign not seen since 1932 | Fox Business

GDP report reveals ominous Great Depression warning sign not seen since 1932 | Fox Business: 

The latest numbers from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the U.S. economy grew by 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, and 2.1 percent for 2022. While the White House was quick to take credit for the state of the nation’s economy, they might want to think twice. This latest report should have alarm bells ringing, not trumpets sounding.

That’s because economic growth is slowing down. Even the areas which contributed positively to gross domestic product (GDP) are not necessarily signs of prosperity. For example, business investment grew at only 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter, but that was almost entirely inventory growth. Nonresidential investment, a key driver of future economic growth, was up just 0.7 percent.

Lune-nutz!---America, let's talk..."

 

No new NG powered furnaces, hot water heaters, stove/ovens, NG gas electricity back-up for your homes!-----Gas Stove Ban Backlash Has Progressives Gaslighting America

Gas Stove Ban Backlash Has Progressives Gaslighting America

• Progressives might not be coming for your existing stove, but they are trying to stop any new installations.

"..."I'd laugh my a** off about all the dipsticks freaking out about the imaginary war on gas stoves, but sadly, it's an indication of just how dumb and easily led so many people are," wrote one former journalist on Twitter. 

That echoed a common theme: conservatives are engaged in their latest unsubstantiated freak-out regarding some "reasonable" policy...

• Do your own evaluation, but don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking this crusade is imaginary.

Might be funny if wasn't so deadly to our country!

 

China, Mexico, Biden!-----Fentanyl's deathly grip on America: 1,500 deaths a week, cities turned into wastelands | Daily Mail Online

Fentanyl's deathly grip on America: 1,500 deaths a week, cities turned into wastelands | Daily Mail Online

• Cheap synthetic opioid flooding US street drug supply is dragging down life expectancy, turning our cities into Zombielands
• Fentanyl kills nearly 1,500 Americans every week, according to CDC data
• The highly potent opioid has fueled a drug overdose crisis in the last decade

"Fentanyl - which is 100 times more potent than morphine - started off as a cheap and potent alternative to heroin and was used by only the most hardcore drug addicts in the US, who mainly injected it or smoked it through a pipe...

#1 This day 1964-----The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show

About that antarctic iceberg

About that antarctic iceberg
"You may have seen the news that a huge iceberg calved off of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica...

• What makes this particular event interesting to me is how careful both the scientists and the media have been in noting that this event was not linked to climate change in the least. 
• It was quite noticeable, given how every drop of water melting anywhere in the world is usually interpreted as a signal of doom.
• Literally every single news story I checked–and it was quite a lot of them–prominently noted that the event had nothing to do with climate change...

APStylebook, protecting your wokeness.

 

Paul Pelosi sold Google shares prior to DOJ antitrust suit | Fox Business

Paul Pelosi sold Google shares prior to DOJ antitrust suit | Fox Business: 

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of former House Speaker and current Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sold 30,000 shares of Google stock a month prior to the Dept. of Justice's announcement of an antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, according to a financial disclosure filed with the House of Representatives.

The media ignored a very fateful event in the waning days of the Obama administration

The media ignored a very fateful event in the waning days of the Obama administration

"...less than two weeks prior to former President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Obama administration chose to give the “green light” to lift the moratorium on federal funding for gain-of-function (GOF) research, or research intended to increase the lethality or the transmissibility of a pathogen.
...Obama appeared throughout his presidency (at least publicly) to be leery of the risks associated with GOF research...

And in October 2014, his administration announced a pause on all funding of GOF research, during which they would conduct an assessment of its “potential risks and benefits.”...
This stunning announcement received little or no press coverage. 

By that time, the media’s obsession with taking down Trump and painting him as an agent of Russia was dominating the news cycle.

• The NIH’s decision to start funding GOF research again suddenly should have set off national alarms, especially since it ran counter to warnings from the scientific community. In a November 2015 report on GOF published in the science journal Nature, scientists concluded that “building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains [is] too risky to pursue, as increased pathogenicity in mammalian models cannot be excluded.”
• The recommendation to end the moratorium also flew in the face of what Obama’s Homeland Security adviser, Lisa Monaco , considered “one of the gravest risks for the new administration”: the emergence of an “infectious disease.” 
• The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology similarly sent a letter to Obama just days after Trump’s victory warning him of the very real threat of biological attack. The 16-page letter explicitly warned that the “modification of pathogens to overcome existing immunity or to be resistant to available drugs.” In other words, GOF posed a serious threat to national security...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 28

History for January 28 - On-This-Day.com

William Seward Burroughs 1857

• 1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. He was succeeded by his 9 year-old son, Edward VI.
• 1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay.
• 1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
• 1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion.
• 1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.
• 1994 - In Los Angeles, Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg declared a mistrial in the case of Lyle Menendez in the murder of his parents. Lyle, and his brother Erik, were both retried later and were found guilty. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Bill Gates invests in company to 'reduce methane emissions' from cow farts and burps to fight climate change - TheBlaze

Bill Gates invests in company to 'reduce methane emissions' from cow farts and burps to fight climate change - TheBlaze: 

Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures was announced as the lead investor in a seeding round for company Rumin8, which is targeting methane emissions from livestock in an effort to stop climate change.

The way we were------Why the British army used heavy artillery to kill thousands of Londoners...

"Between 1940 and 1944, tens of thousands of people living in London and other British cities were killed by artillery shells fired by their own army, in an effort to prevent them fleeing their homes.

How lockdowns, social distancing and other measures to combat Covid-19 might have killed millions!

Ivermectin efficacy finally proven in ‘gold-standard’ RCT – Prof Colleen Aldous

Ivermectin efficacy finally proven in ‘gold-standard’ RCT – Prof Colleen Aldous

"Ivermectin and its use as a treatment for COVID-19 was catapulted to centre stage when the pandemic erased all rhyme and reason in 2020. 

However, even as the totality of evidence demonstrated Ivermectin’s efficacy, mainstream media and governments across the world dismissed its use based on the absence of randomised control trials. 

Further to that, virtually anything related to Ivermectin that made mainstream media was negative coverage of a drug that could’ve saved countless lives. 

Now, at last, a large randomised control study on Ivermectin efficacy for preventing and treating COVID-19 has been released, as discussed in this article by Professor Colleen Aldous, one of the drug’s fiercest advocates...

Seattle Is Running Out of Morgue Space Due to the Fentanyl Crisis

Seattle Is Running Out of Morgue Space Due to the Fentanyl Crisis

"...For Seattle, it includes those things and a fentanyl crisis that is claiming lives at an alarming rate. 

The rate is so high that the King County Coroner is running out of places to store the bodies.
According to a report from KTTH, during a recent meeting of the board of the Seattle & King County Department of Public Health, Director Dr. Faisal Khan stated, “The Medical Examiner’s Office is now struggling with the issue of storing bodies because the fentanyl-related death toll continues to climb. Obviously, they have finite space in the coolers they use and that space is now being exceeded on a regular basis.”...

Google sued for monopolizing ad technology, using 'anticompetitive practices,' DOJ lawsuit claims - TheBlaze

Google sued for monopolizing ad technology, using 'anticompetitive practices,' DOJ lawsuit claims - TheBlaze: 

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and eight states filed a lawsuit against Google accusing the technology giant of abusing its monopoly over online advertising, the New York Times reported.

Woman reportedly fired for following ‘transphobic’ Twitter accounts speaks out

URGENT: A big New Zealand study reveals high rates of kidney injury after the Pfizer jab

URGENT: A big New Zealand study reveals high rates of kidney injury after the Pfizer jab Alex Berenson

• 1,800 more cases than expected followed the shots, one for every 2,200 completed vaccinations; the finding is more evidence that the jabs may cause cardiovascular damage

"Drawing on a national database of over four million people, researchers in New Zealand have found a strong association between Pfizer’s mRNA Covid shot and kidney injuries...

Lunch video-----This New Car Feature Will Kill Thousands

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Speaker McCarthy lays down the law when reporter tries gotcha question to defend Schiff, Swalwell - TheBlaze

Speaker McCarthy lays down the law when reporter tries gotcha question to defend Schiff, Swalwell - TheBlaze: 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy shut down a reporter on Tuesday who suggested that his decision to boot Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee was hypocritical.

"Trickle ...what??