Is Fake News Killing Covid-19 Patients?

Paul Collier January 4, 2022

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is accusing the Federal Government of failing to deliver potentially life-saving Covid-19 therapies in the form of an antibiotic called Monoclonal.

The initial emergence of the antibiotic as a potential effective therapy for Covid-19 patients came at a time when the DNC and its Corporate allies found tremendous advantage in continuing to hold Americans in a state of lockdown emergency.

News of an effective Covid-19 treatment could hamper those efforts, so all early claims of the antibiotic being an effective treatment were deleted from the Internet, along with many of the people that shared such dangerous thoughts. Now, the antibiotic is still continuing to show effectiveness at reducing serious illness and death in Covid-19 significantly, yet the Feds appear still basing their approach on the early fake news reports created by CNN, Washington Post, etc, that all sought to stigmatize the treatment and downplay its effectiveness.

To be sure, there was also plenty of agit prop on the other side proclaiming the drug to be far more effective than it actually appears to be, and these more extreme claims were the strawmen the DNC-controlled media used to disparage anyone advocating for the drug as a treatment, even anyone who might have directly benefited from the treatment.

This tactic, the use-the-nuts tactic, is one often used by the DNC, find the most extreme, insane version of the enemy and hold that up as the totality of the enemy you are seeking to vilify.

Feds Being ‘Scarce’ with Monoclonal Antibody Distribution Is ‘Leading to People Dying’

From www.breitbart.com
2022-01-04 03:57:24
Ian Hanchett
Excerpt:

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said that the federal government hasn’t given Florida the monoclonal antibody treatments it needs and governors can’t get supplies on their own due to the federal government taking control of the supply and the lack of monoclonal antibody treatments “is absolutely leading to people dying.”

DeSantis stated, [relevant remarks begin around 2:15] “I think with the monoclonals, that is absolutely leading to people dying. Because we saw when we put in our sites this summer in Florida to deal with the Delta wave, we kept tens of thousands of people out of the hospital. We saved thousands of lives by providing that treatment. So, that should have been replicated in all these other states, but instead, what Biden and his cronies have done, they’ve seized control of all the monoclonal antibodies. So, yes, when we were in the pinch, I bought some myself. None of the governors now are able…

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Did Ted Cruz Prematurely Whisper Impeachment?

Paul Collier January 4, 2022

Newsweek is putting on their shock face and writing agit prop pieces in preparation for what appears to be a GOP-led Impeachment Run for the 2022 Elections, if Ted Cruz is an effective barometer.

Ted Cruz made statements recently in a discussion on his eponymous show, Verdict with Ted Cruz. He claimed the GOP has multiple grounds to impeach President Joe Biden, tipping, perhaps, the GOP hand as to what narratives they may be deploying in the 2022 election. The strategy, if that’s what is chosen, might not work out as the GOP hopes if it results in what I think it might, galvanizing the broken left to defend their figurehead while not really adding to the already highly galvanized GOP, and even independents, who might not even be as motived to support another round of Impeachments as they would just simply stopping the DNC agenda.

Perhaps Ted Cruz is merely floating a narrative for testing, but, if the left were smart, they would continue to pounce on this and offer, whether the GOP chooses the impeachment narrative or not, their own narrative, vote DNC or the GOP will sack Joe and kill our dream.

Never mind that the DNC dream is anti-American at its heart and billionaire-enabling at its core, they own the cultural and social means of production, so their emotional sales pitches will hit the heart for the plumbline of their false promises has been chased out of the public square.

Perhaps, Ted, discretion is the better part of whatever you thought you were doing. If the GOP were smart, they would focus on Biden’s failures, the DNC Congress’ boondoggle bills that have tanked our economy, and, above all else, assault the CRT, in the schools, in the corporate board rooms. Make the Chief Diversity and Equity Officer the bull School Hall Monitor, the face of the DNC.

Let impeachment wait until you can approach the full team, from Biden to Pelosi to Schumer, move to remove them all, quickly, in one fell swoop, or don’t move at all. Should the GOP not heed this advice, I would rate this move a win for the DNC and a loss for we Americans, but one that yet can still be overcome, not just at the ballot but at the home, among fellow Americans, as we build our own structures to allow us to thrive, without bending our knee to the anti-American DNC.

Ted Cruz Claims ‘Multiple Grounds’ for Joe Biden’s Impeachment Under a GOP House

From www.newsweek.com
2022-01-04 11:25:35

Excerpt:

Texas Senator Ted Cruz believes there are “multiple grounds” for impeachment against President Joe Biden in 2022.

Cruz, along with Michael Knowles and Liz Wheeler, discussed former President Donald Trump‘s impeachment and the future of Biden’s presidency during the show Verdict with Ted Cruz, on December 31, 2021.

Knowles joked that he expects the Democrats to attempt to impeach Trump again and went as far as to say even if he died the Democrats would find a way to impeach him.

He then asked Cruz whether a Republican House of Representatives would ever impeach Biden. Cruz said he believed there was a chance it could happen and argued the Democrats had “crossed the line” with the attempted impeachments of Trump.

He added that if the Republicans took back the House of Representatives, impeachment could follow against Biden in 2022.

Cruz said: “I do think there is a chance of that, whether it is justified or not, as we talked about when Verdict launched, the Democrats weaponized…

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CNBC Headline Suggest Corpos Be Exposed For Funding Election-Questioning GOP

Paul Collier January 4, 2022

This CNBC headline and story is an example of deceptively using a news report format to push an opinion, subliminally making the opinion an assumed fact by the naive news reader. The headline attempts to stigmatize GOP “election objectors” to the point of shaming any individual or corporation that might contribute to these American citizens and current members of the United States government.

The headline itself borders on sedition itself, at least in tone, yet uses that tone to attempt to stigmatize questioning a mass-mailer election result to the point of seeking to market assassinate any individual or company that might dare offer capital to support them in the resistance to the anti-American CCP-acolyte, the Democrat National Corporation and all its Silicon Valley ‘allies.’

Corporations, groups gave over $8 million to GOP election objectors after Jan. 6 riot: Study

From www.cnbc.com
2022-01-03 14:00:01

Excerpt:

Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.

Shannon Stapelton | REUTERS

Since the deadly Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers who objected to the results of the 2020 presidential election received over $8 million in campaign donations from corporations and trade groups, according to a new study first shared with CNBC.

More than 140 Republicans in the House and Senate continued to object to the results of the election in which President Joe Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump, even after the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol. Trump, who was then the president, urged his supporters at a rally that day to march on Congress as lawmakers were in the process of confirming Biden’s electoral victory.

Data compiled by watchdog group Accountable.US shows a handful of corporations that chose to…

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Joe Must Go Is What the Democrats Are Saying About 2024

Paul Collier January 3, 2022

The most popular President of all-time has found himself looking up in the approval polls, and now the word from inside the beltway is the most popular President in the history of the world is now going to face challengers in the 2024 primary for a number of reasons that range from, “He’s not insane lefty loon enough” to “I knew Joe Biden, and that’s not Joe Biden, it must be some kind of meat puppet.”
Ok, so I am paraphrasing liberally, but the gist is real the choir of leftist sycophants and sheep has somehow found itself out of harmony, and now factions are forming and spoiling to be the head of the snake the DNC is currently building. That means Joe gets primaried, and it couldn’t happen to a less aware guy, the most popular President in the history of the world, Joe “reads everything on the teleprompter” Biden.

Progressives Let Loose on Joe Biden’s Age and Issues, Say There Will Be a Challenger in 2024 – RedState

From redstate.com
2022-01-03 07:30:30

Excerpt:

There’s been a lot of quiet speculation on the left about Joe Biden’s ability to run again, much less whether or not he would stand a chance given how unpopular he is at this point.

As we previously noted, even reliable Democratic media organs like CNN were throwing up thoughts about who might run in 2024, “if” Joe Biden “decided” not to run. Their choices showed the problem of just how weak the Democratic bench is. Kamala Harris also showed that she hadn’t been advised on the issue of whether Biden was running again when she said last month they hadn’t even talked about it. That, despite White House Press Psaki saying in November that Biden was running again. As we noted, polls indicate he would not fare well against President Donald Trump and most Americans doubted his mental fitness and almost two-thirds thought him too old for the office.

Now some of that speculation is getting louder and just a bit more pointed when it comes to Joe Biden’s issues….

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Public University Pays Professors to Make Lessons Woke

Freedomist Editor January 3, 2022

A public-funded university, the University of Memphis, is using those same public funds to pay college professors as much as $3,000 a class to pollute their teaching with anti-American wokism designed by privileged white professors and funded and enforced by billionaires and their international, unaccountable corporations for the purpose of destroying the Bill of Rights values of Americans so that corporations can more easily directly control us.

Of course, the DNC, the party, the new nation these collaborators and co-seditionists are ultimately building, is fully welcoming of an international corporate tyranny that forces DNC values on all Americans, in every part of every life where corporations control our sustainability.

Wokism, CRT, Social Justice, whatever you want to call the vehicle of power the DNC and its corporate collaborators is using, is a direct assault on the very notion of due process, rule of law, of a government bounded by the rights of its citizens, of a government OF the people, the whole people, equally, not diminished according to identity.
Wokism demands guilt first, with no hope of innocence, for no trial would be allowed, lest they platform undesirable opinions. Wokism, CRT, DNCism, is a direct assault on equality and justice, the very words it hides its racism and bigotry behind.

Wokism is violence and hate and sedition against the American way of life, a Bill of Rights Life, and the University of Memphis, funded by American tax dollars, is attempting to pay its professors to push that hatred and sedition into the hearts of our children, and it does so with impunity, in the land of the fleeing, it would seem.

But their time is short, for today’s technological reality of power heavily favors individuals and small-scall free associations. They hold on so desperately, using any debased morality code they can, so long as it keeps us from seeing the true reality of power.

It is better for our children to grow hating and shaming themselves for identities than to realize 3D printers and mesh networks and private currencies are making it possible for us to build right where we are, and to build in new places the power to reject the attempts by the DNC and its corporate collaborators to overthrow the American Republic and replace it with the DNC state, where children grow to hate their parents and desperately seek approval from strangers in authority.

Public University Offers Professors Cash To Go Woke

From freebeacon.com
2022-01-03 10:00:03
Matthew Foldi
Excerpt:

A public Tennessee university is offering professors financial incentives for “infusing” social justice into their classes.

The University of Memphis told faculty they could collect a $3,000 stipend for redesigning their curricula to align with the university’s commitment to “diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice,” according to an email sent to all faculty obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The offer is part of the university’s “Eradicating Systemic Racism and Promoting Social Justice Initiative.”

Interested faculty are asked to submit a copy of syllabi to be reworked as well as a 500-word “narrative” on their “diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy” and how the new lessons will “address disparities” in their subject area.

The University of Memphis’s offer is part of a growing trend on college campuses, where…

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SCOTUS to Decide if States Can Boycott Faith

Paul Collier December 23, 2021

The State of Maine would very much wish to continue to provide funding to secular private schools that serve districts that don’t have public schools. They would also very much wish to continue to not allow parents to choose faith based schools as an option, and thus allow those schools to receive funding as well.
Perhaps 5 years ago, and certainly past that, the whole myth of ‘secular’ being somehow the neutral, non-partisan approach to schooling our schools, but now, especially as we see the rapid deployment of the fruit of secularism, moral supremacist authoritarianism that violates that sacredness and sovereignty of the individual, we see the religious in the secular, the ideological that goes beyond our shared, limited ideology, a Constitutional Bill of Rights frame of understanding.
If the State of Main wishes to continue to fund its secular private schools, it will also have to fund the faith-based one, or shut the whole program down, or simply give the money to the families and let them decide for themselves, but such freedom of families to raise children as they choose would fundamentally undermine the authoritarian centralized structures the State of Maine would most assuredly wish to perpetuate.

The case that’s testing the Supreme Court’s boundaries on church and state

From thehill.com
2021-12-22 16:31:03

Excerpt:

If a state pays for a student’s secular education, must it also pay for students’ religious education? That’s the question presented in Carson v. Makin, a case currently being argued at the Supreme Court.

Maine, with a large area and small student population, pays for students to attend private, secular schools in districts that don’t have a public high school. Now, some religious schools are demanding taxpayer dollars for their students regardless of the provision in Maine’s constitution that prohibits public funding for religious education.

Both sides recognize the fundamental legal principle that government must be “neutral” (Thomas Jefferson used the term “impartial”) vis-à-vis different religions or between religion and no religion. The question is how to apply that principle.

Maine argues that it is willing to pay for any schools offering the same education available in public schools, a secular education with a proscribed curriculum. The state is “neutral” in who it pays for such a secular education, but it is not required to expand purchases with tax dollars to an essentially different product, a religious education.

After all, if any “education” qualifies, a student could argue that the state should pay for her sports car, something that provides an education of sorts. Or that he should be paid to learn exotic dancing or massage. If a state, in the name of neutrality, must expand its purchases beyond a specified secular education to include religious education, does that mean it must provide other forms of “education”? And will the court’s conservatives, who demand deference to states when convenient, ignore Maine’s interest in its constitutional requirement prohibiting funding of religion?

But there is a second, arguably even more important issue behind this case: If a law is found to be neutral, does that insulate it from challenge under the First Amendment?

Maine laws, for example, prohibit schools that receive public…

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College Professor Penalizes Student for Assuming God’s Gender

Paul Collier December 22, 2021

Gender benderism is now being extended to your religious right of expression, apparently, if American college professors in American universities funded by American taxpayer dollars (and a fair amount of Chinese Communist Party dollars as well) have their way.

A Loyola Marymount Professor has allegedly been forcing his yoga studies students to adopt the non-binary, super-binary, infinity-binary custom of announcing your pronouns to the universe in a show of approval of the new gender benderism way. When one student wrote a paper referring to “God” as He, the professor marked the student down for giving God a gender normative pronoun, never mind that it was a patriarchal-affirming one.

Loyola Marymount U. Student Reportedly Penalized for Referring to God as ‘He’ in an Assignment

From legalinsurrection.com
2021-12-22 17:00:07
Mike LaChance
Excerpt:

Loyola Marymount is a Catholic school and I sincerely hope students raise hell over this.

Campus Reform reports:

Students continue to speak against professors’ pronoun mandates

The California College Republicans issued a statement Monday “condemning” Cecilia González-Andrieu, a professor at Loyola Marymount University who allegedly penalized a student for referring to God as “He” in an assignment.

Yesterday’s announcement follows a semester of controversy at the Catholic university over pronoun usage.

Christopher Miller, a yoga studies professor, mandated his students include pronouns on their blog assignments, Fox News reported in November.

“The story coming out of the Yoga Department is just another link in a long train of abuses,” LMU GOP President Will Donahue said in a Dec. 1 statement. “I urge LMU to think deeply about the kind of school that they would like to be.”

Donahue told Campus Reform that the policy was “a violation of free…

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Manchin Bashes BBB and the DNC Brings Pitchforks to Meet Him

Freedomist Editor December 20, 2021

Joe Manchin’s decision to fell Biden’s Build Back Better Plan has led the MSM into war mode as they seek to assist the DNC in making Manchin pay for his treason to the party, which, to the DNC, is everything. Here is how the MSM on the left and the right are reporting on the news that Manchin is nixing the BBB as well as the stories now following Manchin since he made this announcement. White House issues blistering statement after Manchin, on Fox, says he’s a ‘no’ on BBB From www.dailykos.com 2021-12-20 14:02:21 Hunter Excerpt:

In a move that has the Biden White House coming very, very close to labeling him a liar, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News today to give what appeared to be a final shooting-down of Joe Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda, known as “Build Back Better.” “I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there. This is a no,” Manchin told Fox.
Manchin’s new stance appears to have taken the White House by complete surprise. They quickly released a scathing statement calling Manchin out. “Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances,” writes Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged…

Read Full Article Manchin Takes Dead Aim at Biden’s Agenda From freebeacon.com 2021-12-20 10:00:27 Washington Free Beacon Editors Excerpt:

There’s an old Appalachian Christmas tradition in which children throw their wish lists into a fireplace in hopes fairies will bring the embers to Santa Claus. President Joe Biden may want to consider giving it a try after Senator Joe Manchin’s Sunday morning announcement that he’s gifting the White House a lump of West Virginia coal for Christmas: a “no” vote on the multitrillion-dollar “Build Back Better” plan. Not a year into his presidency, Biden’s domestic agenda is dead.

Manchin told Fox News, where he broke the news, that he “tried everything humanly possible” to get to “yes” on the legislation, but Biden wouldn’t take his eminently reasonable advice to spend less money at a time of skyrocketing inflation. The White House released an obnoxious, and obnoxiously long, statement shortly after Manchin’s Fox appearance, accusing him of reneging on his word. Such a temper tantrum is not what one expects with the self-proclaimed adults in charge.

Read Full Article Peevish Pelosi Vows ‘Build Back Better’ 2.0 After Manchin Sticks Fork in Socialist Monstrosity – RedState From redstate.com 2021-12-20 10:45:25 Excerpt:

Now that Joe Manchin has put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats’ utopian scam, laughably misnomered “Build Back Better,” and the worst hissy fits have been hissed, Nancy Pelosi vowed late Sunday evening to revive the stinking carcass, slap some lipstick on it, and give it another shot. ASAP.

Once Manchin got infrastructure passed Build Back Better was doomed, even if Pelosi couldn’t admit it. https://t.co/xJy494n4D4
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 19, 2021
“Dose of optimism”? No. Not even close. Act of desperation. Pelosi, while a peevish bitter wench, is not stupid. Far from it. She is fully aware that the Biden presidency is not only on the line; it is on life support.

Nancy Pelosi Provides A Dose Of Optimism On Build Back Better https://t.co/v80AWjvAK2 pic.twitter.com/VSVdtwPkHG
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) December 20, 2021
In a statement provided to PolticusUSA, the ever-peevish Pelosi once again lied her head off about BBB, spewing…

Read Full Article Scarborough: Angry Democrats Pushing Manchin Into Arms of GOP From www.newsbusters.org 2021-12-20 09:52:00 Mark Finkelstein Excerpt:

Go ahead, Jen Psaki. Put out a furious, Biden-approved statement, accusing Joe Manchin of failing to “honor his prior commitments,” of breaking his “promise,” of—not to put too fine a point on it—lying. Bernie Sanders: enjoy your moment of accusing Manchin of not having the “guts” to stand up to powerful special interests. And Ilhan Omar, bask in the rosy glow of calling Manchin’s reasons for opposing Build Back Better “bull—-.” The three of you, and the other Democrats who are lashing out at Manchin, see how you enjoy life with Mitch McConnell back in the Senate Majority-Leader saddle. That was Joe Scarborough’s warning to Democrats on Monday’s Morning Joe:
“I’m sure they were angry, I’m sure they felt betrayed. I’m sure they’re completely exasperated with trying to nail him down…I was taken by those attacks, and attacks by other Democrats, which seem to invite Joe Manchin to become a Republican.”
Scarborough cited the example of “Jumpin” Jim…

Read Full Article STUDY: Four Times the Nets BURIED Unhinged Leftists Bullying Manchin (and Sinema) From www.newsbusters.org 2021-12-20 10:00:00 Scott Whitlock Excerpt:

Joe Manchin on Sunday likely doomed Joe Biden’s massive $2 trillion spending plan and the media reaction was predictably hyperbolic. There were audible gasps on ABC when the news that he would vote no broke. The New York Times on Monday’s front page accused him of “deserting” the President. Incendiary talk by liberal journalists has been amplified by real-world bullying of Manchin and his fellow moderate Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. So the question must be asked: Do journalists care about the safety of Manchin and Sinema? For the last few months, the two centrists have endured an escalating series of incidents in which leftist protesters follow them, yell in bathrooms, and show up at their homes. What has the response from ABC, CBS and NBC been? They’ve mostly buried the abuse. From October through November, MRC analysts looked at coverage (or lack of coverage) of bullying against Manchin and Sinema. Here’s what we found.

Read Full Article Schumer Explicitly Points To Manchin As Cause Of ‘Frustration’ From talkingpointsmemo.com 2021-12-20 14:58:34 Kate Riga Excerpt:

In a new letter to Senate colleagues, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fingered Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) as a cause of “deep discontent and frustration” but promised to at least force senators to vote on the record for both reconciliation and voting rights. “This session has also led to moments of deep discontent and frustration,” he wrote. “That frustration was evident in the past week as nearly all of us were disappointed by the decision to delay floor consideration of the Build Back Better Act because Senator Manchin could not come to an agreement with the president.” “However, neither that delay, nor other recent pronouncements, will deter us from continuing to try to find a way forward,” he added. In a Sunday interview that rocked the political world, Manchin appeared on Fox News to announce his opposition to the current version of the reconciliation bill. Manchin cited his usual smorgasbord of factors that have…

Read Full Article Stocks sink amid virus concerns, Manchin’s blow to Build Back Better From finance.yahoo.com 2021-12-20 15:33:07 Excerpt:

Stocks fell on Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week of trading, with investors considering renewed virus-related restrictions overseas and prospects that a significant social policy bill may be scuttled. The S&P 500, Dow Nasdaq each dropped more than 1%. Treasury yields fell as investors piled into safe haven assets, and the benchmark 10-year yield held below 1.4%. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked more than 20% to hover above 25. U.S. crude oil prices sank 3% to trade below $69 per barrel as restrictions mounted in Europe, stoking jitters around energy demand. Countries from Germany to Ireland imposed curfews or travel restrictions in recent days given the rapidly spreading new variant. And the Netherlands over the weekend announced a nationwide lockdown of non-essential stores, bars and restaurants until Jan. 14. As of this weekend, the Omicron variant had been reported in about 89 countries, with cases doubling every 1.5 to 3 days. Renewed fears over the…

Read Full Article Manchin Praises Himself For Not Giving in to “Pressure” from Dems on BBB Plan From www.politicususa.com 2021-12-20 16:20:48 Alan Ryland Excerpt:

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) hit back at Democrats, saying they had miscalculated in their efforts to court his vote on the Build Back Better plan, a landmark social spending bill that appears to have died in the Senate since he withdrew himself from negotiations. “They figured surely to God we can move one person. We surely can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protestors to make that person uncomfortable enough that they’ll just say, ‘OK I’ll vote for anything,’” he said during a radio interview with West Virginia MetroNews’ Hoppy Kercheval. “Well, guess what? I’m from West Virginia. I’m not from where they’re from and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive, period,” Manchin added. Manchin did not blame President Joe Biden for the failed negotiations. “They know the real reason, what happened. … It’s staff-driven. I understand it’s staff. It is…

Read Full Article Joe Manchin May Become an Independent From www.breitbart.com 2021-12-20 17:45:00 Wendell Husebø Excerpt:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) may reportedly become an independent after the Biden administration on Sunday accused the senator of disloyalty.
Following Manchin’s vocal opposition to Biden’s $1.9 trillion Build Back Better bill, the White House accused Manchin of breaching “his commitments to the President.”

The accusation may result in Manchin becoming an independent, though he would still caucus with Democrats, Axios reported. Manchin is from West Virginia, a red state that Biden lost in 2020 by nearly 40 points. “I’m from West Virginia,” he said Monday. “I’m not from where they’re [Democrats] from, and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive, period.”
For months Joe Biden tried to work out a deal with Manchin to enact the spending package in the 50/50 split Senate. Manchin maintained throughout the negotiations he opposed major provisions in the package. In October, leaks indicated Manchin wanted to leave…

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Typhoon Rai Devastates Philippines with Death Toll Rising

Parker Davis December 20, 2021

The Philippines has been hit by a massive typhoon named Rai. The typhoon struck the Philippines this past Thursday, December 16th and rescue and recovery efforts have been ongoing ever since. So far, the death toll has gone past 375, with the final toll expected to be much higher.

Here are a couple of YouTube videos and news blurbs that have covered this still emerging story.

Philippines Super Typhoon Rai death toll surges

From www.bbc.co.uk
2021-12-20 13:03:15

Excerpt:

At least 375 people are now known to have died after a powerful storm struck the Philippines on Thursday, police say.

Super Typhoon Rai – with winds of about 195km/h (120mph) – sent some 400,000 people running for safety when it hit the country’s south-eastern islands.

At least 500 people were injured and 56 others have been reported missing by local police.

Rescue teams have described scenes of “complete carnage”.

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Philippines Grapples With Typhoon Aftermath As Death Count Tops 300

From www.ndtv.com
2021-12-20 14:26:50

Excerpt:

More than 300 people have been in killed by a powerful typhoon in the Philippines that destroyed homes, flooded towns, severed power and communications lines and displaced hundreds of thousands in its central and southern regions.

Military airplanes and naval vessels were dispatched on Monday to carry aid to areas devastated by Typhoon Rai, as the country grappled with the strongest of 15 such storms to hit the archipelago this year.

“We are still assessing the damage, but it is huge,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters on Monday. “The first thing we are doing is address the food and water (supplies) and medical care of the injured.”

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Typhoon Rai: 208 deaths confirmed after 168mph ‘carnage’ storm in Philippines | World | News

From www.express.co.uk
2021-12-20 12:18:00

Excerpt:

The death toll in the Philippines has surpassed 200 on Monday following a 168mph typhoon — the country’s strongest storm this year — on Thursday. Described as “complete carnage”, it caused widespread flooding and landslides that impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents.

The horrific typhoon, which hit the southern and central regions of the Philippines, also destroyed homes and infrastructure.

According to the government, more than 300,000 residents had to evacuate their homes, and a total of about 780,000 people were affected in one way or another.

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Search and rescue efforts continue in Philippines after Typhoon Rai

From www.csmonitor.com
2021-12-19 21:31:00
Jim Gomez
Excerpt:

The death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has reached at least 146. Search and rescue efforts continued across the region, three days after super Typhoon Rai struck. On Sunday, the governor of an island province especially hard-hit by the typhoon said there may be even greater devastation that has yet to be reported.

Gov. Arthur Yap of Bohol province in the central Philippines said 72 people died there, 10 others were missing and 13 injured, and suggested the fatalities may still considerably increase because only 33 of 48 mayors were able to report back to him due to downed communications. Officials were trying to confirm a sizable number of deaths caused by landslides and extensive flooding elsewhere.

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Typhoon Rai death toll tops 200 as Philippines grapple with dozens still missing – National

From globalnews.ca
2021-12-20 05:39:05

Excerpt:

The death toll rose to more than 200 following the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year, with 52 people still missing and several central towns and provinces grappling with downed communications and power outages and pleading for food and water, officials said Monday.

At its strongest, the typhoon packed sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph) before it blew out Friday into the South China Sea.

At least 208 people were killed, 52 remained missing and 239 were injured, according to the national police. The toll was expected to increase because several towns and villages remained out of reach due to downed communications, power outages and clogged roads, although massive clean-up and repair efforts were underway with the improved weather.

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Drone Swarms Rising Threat to US Navy, Carriers

Paul Collier December 20, 2021

According to newly released US Government documents, the United States Navy dealt with multiple drone swarm assaults on Destroyers over the course of several weeks. The report does not suggest this is an isolated incident, only that it is one that has been revealed.

The age of the carrier itself is under assault with the rise of drones, so seeing this type of activity already happening back in 2019 suggests that the age of the carrier might be over sooner than even i previously imagined.

The ramifications of the loss of carrier advantage for the United States is significant, and one we have already explored and will continue to explore on this site. One immediate outcome is global trade instability and a rise, a significant rise in the cost of exporting goods and services for everyone.

The day that a US Carrier is felled by a drone assault from a non-super-power is the day that world trade comes dramatically to a halt and the necessity for geo-proximal sustainable reliance will emerge.

New Documents Reveal U.S. Navy ‘Ghostbusters’ Battled Drones Harassing Destroyers

From www.forbes.com
2021-12-20 13:13:38
David Hambling, Contributor
Excerpt:

I previously reported how swarms of small drones harassed U.S. Navy destroyers on multiple occasions during a 2019 exercise off Los Angeles. The Navy never discovered where the drones came from, who was operating them, or why they were buzzing Navy vessels. New documents released to The War Zone in response to a Freedom of Information Act request show the drone incursions continued for weeks, and the Navy deployed a variety of weapons to counter them.

Some key details were redacted in the released documents, so the outcome of the encounters is not known. But they do reveal that efforts to counter the drones included special ‘Ghostbuster’ units, machine-guns and even the destroyer’s 5-inch guns.

The drones were observed by Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation (SNOOPIE)…

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