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Net Zero Carbon = More Energy Tax = Higher Inflation = More Poverty. ***** Zelensky: “Americans are ridiculous, decadent, over-fed and I have contempt for them.” America responds with $50 billion more in free money.

***** China’s Army posts “Get ready for war!” message over US visit to Taiwan. It was posted by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 80th Group on their social network Weibo. The war message over the potential US visit to Taiwan reportedly generated over 300,000 thumbs-up in just 12 hours, creating “high morale among Chinese solderis” according to Global Times. ***** Robert F. Kennedy says Google is a vaccine company: “They can tell what you’re buying habits are. They can hear you cough, listening to Siri. All of these surveillance systems that are acting in the information systems and how we use them and what we purchase is all turned into sellable data.”

***** Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, says the COVID vaccine is 1,000 times more deadly than the smallpox vaccine, and the smallpox vaccine was deemed to be too dangerous to give to people.

“Instead of killing one person per million, you’re killing somewhere in the order of 1,000 people per million. And now, I may be off by a factor of two on that. But it’s somewhere on the order of half a million Americans have been killed by this vaccine,” said Kirsch in an interview with Greg Hunter.

House GOP ready to subpoena Hunter and James Biden, force FBI to address integrity issues

Rep. Jim Jordan said it is time "put in place the right kind of leadership at the Justice Department who will actually rein that institution in, get rid of the politics and focus on equal treatment under the law."

By John Solomon

Two senior Republicans likely to chair House investigative committees next year if the GOP wins control of Congress say they are prepared to compel testimony from Hunter and James Biden about their overseas business deals and to use the power of the purse to force the FBI to address long-simmering questions about its integrity.

Rep. James Comer (RKy.) told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show on Thursday night that if he wins the chairmanship of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next January, he will methodically look to compel testimony from President Joe Biden's son and brother.

"We're gonna ask them to testify, and when they say no, then we'll subpoena them," Comer said in a wide-ranging interview. "So that'll be probably the first subpoena issued by a Republican majority."

Comer stressed that the subpoena wasn't an effort at further political embarrassment of an alreadyunpopular president, but rather an attempt to address the legitimate national security and ethics questions surrounding the Biden family's dealings with companies in countries like Russia, China and Ukraine.

"It's not that we're picking on Hunter Biden for political reasons," he said. "We believe that Hunter Biden and his shady business dealings have compromised Joe Biden in some of the decisions that he's making, especially when you look at decisions he's made with respect to China, and with respect to Russia. So we consider this a priority for the American people."

He added: "We should consider this a national security risk, and we're not going to let up on it."

You can watch the full Comer interview in the player above.

Another key Republican, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, told "Just the News, Not Noise" he has specific information from FBI whistleblowers that agents and prosecutors have been engaged in political tampering with sensitive cases and that they have also been inflating statistics to make the domestic terrorism problem in the United States look worse than it is.

"They're juicing the numbers, plain and simple," Jordan said, describing the whistleblowers' allegations. "They set up this this office on domestic terrorism just a few months ago. This has been a big focus of the Democrats because they can't talk about everything else that they've done wrong, every policy decision they made that's been a disaster. So they've got this focus. And we've had whistleblowers now, multiple whistleblowers, come to us and tell us they're being pressured to catalog cases as domestic terrorism cases to, I think, fit this whole crazy political narrative that the Biden administration has."

Jordan, the likely chairman of the House Judiciary Committee next year should Republicans win in November, has repeatedly been rebuffed by FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland when seeking answers and evidence about alleged wrongdoing inside their agencies. But he said Republicans have a strategy to change that dynamic next year, using Congress' power of the purse through budget appropriations.

"We can continue to do the investigations, get the facts and the truth to the American people," he said. "We can look at the appropriations process, which is the legislature's job to get the executive branch of governments funded.

"And then hopefully, in two years, we can elect a Republican president. I think and hope it's going to be President Trump. I think he's going to run. I hope he does, and I want him to win. And then you put in place the right kind of leadership at the Justice Department, who will actually rein that institution in, get rid of the politics and focus on equal treatment under the law, the rule of law, the Constitution, and not all the political things that we see now."

On the Hunter Biden probe, Comer questioned why the FBI has taken four years to decide whether to charge Hunter Biden with crimes, promising Republicans will disclose the approximately 150 transactions (Continued on page 14)

CDC told Big Tech to censor COVID claims now debated by mainstream scientists, documents show

New FOIA docs give boost to legal challenges to federal involvement in social media content moderation.

By Greg Piper

The newly revealed scope of collaboration between the feds and Big Tech in stamping out purported COVID-19 misinformation and promoting government narratives has opened a new chapter in constitutional challenges to stateinfluenced censorship by private actors.

On Wednesday night, America First Legal (AFL) published the first 286-page batch of emails among CDC, Google, Twitter and Meta staffers, some of whom were former Hill and White House aides. The production was compelled through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, and typical of government document dumps, it's not text-searchable.

The emails show intimate cooperation was well underway by the time the White House a year ago acknowledged the effort, which included thinly veiled threats for not more aggressively removing content.

New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Jenin Younes told Just the News it incorporated "the revelations about the CDC emails" into a filing Thursday seeking to reopen its case against the feds on behalf of deplatformed users.

A federal court dismissed that litigation a month before a whistleblower leaked documents suggesting the Department of Homeland Security's since-scrapped Disinformation Governance Board planned to "operationalize" its relationship with social media companies to remove content. NCLA cited those documents in its initial motion to reopen in June. The document dump by AFL, led by former Trump White House senior advisor Stephen Miller, is also likely to help a lawsuit by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general against the feds for alleged collusion with Big Tech to censor information on COVID's origins, Hunter Biden's laptop and vote-by-mail security.

The feds filed a motion to dismiss two weeks ago for lack of legal standing and failure to state a claim. The AGs' responses aren't due until next week.

AFL's documents show the CDC shared specific tweets and Facebook and Instagram posts as examples of content to remove, including an interview with a former Pfizer vice president, Michael Yeadon, who advised against taking "top up" vaccines, meaning boosters.

The agency inserted its own COVID recommendations into Google's code, received $15 million in Facebook ad credits to promote its messaging, and even notified Facebook that Wyoming's public health messages were getting throttled as misinformation.

CDC digital media branch chief Carol Crawford, the sender on many of the emails, sent Facebook a suggested "quiz" that tells users to get vaccinated even if they have natural immunity, which a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found more effective than two-dose vaccination against symptomatic Omicron BA.2 infection.

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one, without noting that manufacturers and healthcare providers are required by law to report and the two account for most reports.

Twitter proactively asked the agency what to censor and requested holding off on a misinformation coordination meeting because its CEO was about to testify in Congress.

A Google News staffer told the CDC in June 2020 that the company's

efforts against COVID and election misinformation were "inevitably related."

The agency hosted regular "Be on the Lookout" meetings with tech companies, featuring slide presentations of messages to censor and "The Facts" to counter them, with instructions to limit the slides to "your trust and safety teams." Each page says "THIS INFORMATION IS NOT FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION."

Some of the specific content the feds wanted removed, and narratives they sought to promote, have subsequently become subjects of debate among mainstream scientists, including vaccine side effects on menstruation and fertility, optimal time between mRNA doses, and the effectiveness of masks against viral transmission.

The CDC's Crawford included a tweet by feminist COVID contrarian Naomi Wolf on the misinformation example list. "Unconfirmed, needs more investigation," Wolf tweeted, pointing to a Facebook group where women shared their "bleeding/ clotting after vaccination or that they bleed oddly being AROUND vaccinated women."

Several months later, the National Institutes of Health admitted vaccines have a "small" effect on menstrual cycles. A peerreviewed study this month in Science Advances found nearly as many women with "regular menstrual cycles" reported heavier bleeding within two weeks of vaccination (42%) as those who reported no change (44%).

The feds also highlighted claims about "shedding" as targets for removal. While some examples referred to transmitting the vaccines' allegedly poisonous ingredients, others weren't specific. Viral shedding can simply refer to actively infectious people, vaccinated or not.

University of Colorado medical researchers this spring found that vaccinated people shed in an unexpected way.

Their preprint study, not yet peer-reviewed, found that vaccinated healthcare workers shed vaccine-induced antibodies into their face masks, leading the researchers to

hypothesize "droplet/ aerosolized antibody transfer" was possible between people.

Most of the document dump is not meaningfully redacted, though about 20 pages have partial or full redactions under the FOIA exemption for internal government deliberations known as (b)(5), regarded by transparency groups left and right as the "most abused" exemption.

Those sections concern April 2021 CDC deliberations on the template for its social media paid ads, updating the "Prevention and Treatment tabs" in Google's Knowledgebase, Google's request to "discuss vaccines" at a scheduled agency meeting, and Facebook's proposed "I got a vaccine" frame for user profiles.

Other recent developments may put the feds on the defensive. Deplatformed journalist Emerald Robinson said Thursday that "excess death data" were missing from CDC databases.

A new preprint study by a Dutch researcher, not yet peer-reviewed, found Dutch vaccination and booster campaigns had no "mortality-reducing effect" but did find a "4sigma-significant mortality-enhancing effect during the two periods of high unexplained excess mortality" in the Netherlands.

Alito: U.S. seeing growing hostility to religious freedom

By The Center Square Staff

Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said there’s a “growing hostility to religion” in a keynote address he gave highlighting the unique protection of religion in the U.S. Constitution.

“The problem that looms is not just indifference to religion, it’s not just ignorance about religion,” he said at a 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome last week.

knew about all of it," he said. "And what we're seeing now —we've got the phone message where Joe Biden calls Hunter after this Chinese fiasco was starting to break, and he said, 'Look, you know, I think you're free and clear now. Everything's good.' So obviously Joe Biden was keeping up with that.

"Now we have text messages and phone messages that show that Joe Biden was communicating with many of Hunter's business associates. We're seeing call logs now, White House visitor logs that show that there were many, many communications between Joe Biden and Hunter's business associates."

Some Republicans are pressing for a special counsel to taker over the probe of the Biden family that has been led since 2018 by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware. But Comer said he's not ready to support that move.

"I want to see the House Republicans have a bite at the apple first," he said. "I've not been impressed with special counsels in the past. I'm not impressed with [Russia collusion special counsel John] Durham. I wasn't impressed with [Whitewater Independent Counsel] Ken Starr. I would like to see what we can do."

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that Hunter Biden and other family members made over the last decade that were flagged by U.S. banks.

Those alerts —known as Suspicious Activity Reports or SARS —will also be subpoenaed and made public so Americans can see what concerned the financial institutions while Joe Biden was still sitting as vice president.

"There's not as much digging required with this investigation, which makes it all the more peculiar that the FBI hasn't already done something with Hunter Biden," Comer said. "I mean, he had 150 suspicious activity reports filed from various banks. That means the bank was pretty confident that Hunter Biden was committing some type of criminal activity, but yet they did nothing. They knew Hunter Biden was influence-peddling in Ukraine, in Russia in the Middle East and China, but yet they did nothing."

Comer said his investigators have already gathered evidence that Joe Biden knew what his son and business associates were doing even as he professed on the campaign trail that he wasn't involved or aware. “There’s also growing hostility to religion or at least the traditional religious beliefs that are contrary to the new moral code that is ascendant in some sectors,” he said during his 37-minute remarks released on Thursday.

He said he wondered “what historians may say centuries from now about the contribution of the United States to world civilization. One thing I hope they will say is that our country, after a lot of fits and starts, and ups and downs, eventually showed the world that it is possible to have a stable and successful society in which people of diverse faiths live and work together harmoniously and productively while still retaining their own beliefs. This has been truly a historic accomplishment.” But “no human achievement is ever permanent,” he added, and “we can’t … assume that the religious liberty enjoyed today …will always endure. Religious liberty is fragile.” “Religious liberty is under attack because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power,” he said.

While some academics and politicians argue religion doesn’t deserve special protection, Alito argues it does. Hostility to religion in the U.S. threatens religious liberty, which in turn threatens other fundamental rights it protects.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the free exercise of religion, he reiterated, which “very often involves speech, a spoken or written prayer, the recitation of Scripture, a homily, a religious book or article. These are all forms of speech. They are also forms of religious exercise.” “If this sort of speech can be suppressed or punished, what is to stop the state from crushing other forms of expression?” he asked. and assemble in the U.S. in an era where the Supreme Court was tasked with ruling on cases brought by pastors, priests and rabbis who faced jail time if they didn’t close their churches and synagogues because of governorordered lockdowns. The Supreme Court consistently ruled that orders shutting down religious worship were unconstitutional.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Ninth Circuit received specific chastisement from the high court, which ruled that Newsom's mandates prohibiting religious assembly and worship were unconstitutional. As a result, the state of California and counties were forced to settle lawsuits, paying out millions of dollars to entities they had threatened with imprisonment and exorbitant fines.

After winning several of these religious freedom cases, Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver said, “Governor Gavin Newsom’s COVID restrictions intentionally discriminated against churches while providing preferential treatment to many secular businesses and gatherings. The Supreme Court intervened multiple times to provide relief. California may never again place discriminatory restrictions on churches and places of worship.” Pastor Rob McCoy of Calvary Chapel-God Speak in Thousand Oaks, California, argues the government doesn’t have the authority to shut down houses of worship at all. The rulings and settlements related to cases other than his implied that if restrictions were equally imposed on secular entities and houses of worship, the case for discrimination would be moot. Religious freedom isn’t about unequal treatment between a church and Walmart, for example, he argues, because the First Amendment specifically protects the free exercise of religion, not the free exercise to shop. Continue reading.