CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: HATRED OF TRUTH ON FULL DISPLAY
We expect partisan bias in confirmation hearings, especially when the current president’s nominations represent a major reversal of Democrat wokeness, whose policies have caused grave anguish among moral, religious and health-conscious Americans in the past decades. But the level of antagonism rose to new levels in the hearings on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as both Democrats and Republicans joined together in attacking Kennedy’s former criticism of vaccine effectiveness and safety and the obvious implications of a conspiracy between big government and Big Pharma. None were mollified by Kennedy’s desperate flip-flop as he now claims to “support all vaccines” including the evil “childhood vaccination schedule” which is responsible for so many SIDS deaths and autism. They sensed, correctly, that given his devastating former arguments, he was just trying to get nominated. The Democrat Senators tried to get him to convert his flip-flopping into an under-oath vow that they could hold him to, and, in addition, force him to discredit everything he has written documenting in minute detail the evils of vaccines and the falsification of evidence in vaccine trials. Some republican senators joined in to make sure he disavowed any notion of conspiracy involved, and none defended his past skepticism about vaccine claims. When that happens with such awkward unanimity you know how effective the mainstream medical and media conspiracy to deny core truths has been over the years equating vaccines with “motherhood and apple pie,” and demonizing any hint of conspiracy, despite its obvious existence since the beginning of time.
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Confirmation Hearings: Hatred of Truth on Full Display
"I’ve had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning," Cassidy said in a statement posted to X before the vote. "I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes."
Last week, Cassidy - a physician, looked like he was a 'no,' grilling RFK over his vaccine stance and demanding that Kennedy renounce his anti-vaccine activism. Kennedy declined, prompting intense discussions between the two over the weekend.
"This can be interpreted as a warning shot to US enterprises with a high-dependency on China's market," Lynn Song, chief economist for Greater China at ING Bank in Hong Kong, told clients, adding, "There is still hope that tariffs could get quickly unwound or pushed back after face-to-face talks."
Song noted that Beijing's counter was "fairly muted retaliation" because levies on US energy account for a small share of China's imports.
"Well, that was always the goal was to reform it, but now we have rank insubordination," Rubio told Fox News, in comments just one day after President Trump announced that Rubio would serve as the acting head of USAID - which itself came after Elon Musk's DOGE team descended upon the agency and revealed that "USAID is a ball of worms. There is no apple. And when there is no apple you just need to get rid of the whole thing. That's why it's got to go. It's beyond repair."
Driscoll told FBI workers in a separate message to the FBI workforce that the request encompasses thousands of employees across the country, including himself, “who have supported these investigative efforts.”
Bove warned that “additional personnel actions” could follow, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said.
In what is a carbon copy of Trump's tariff-delaying deal with Mexico, moments ago Canada's outgoing PM, Justin Trudeau, said that he too had bent the knee, i.e. had a "good call" with Trump, and that US tariffs on Canada would be paused for 30 days after Canada - just like Mexico - agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border as part of a $1.3 billion border plan which "reinforces the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl".
The minority of voters supporting the right are overwhelmingly coming from the Democratic core that opposed Trump in the last election. In other words, it is an issue appealing to the very margin voters that will be needed in the midterm election. That makes this a perfect wedge issue either as a court fight or, if unsuccessful, a fight for a constitutional amendment.
Apparently the Trump administration is directly over the target, as Democrats are absolutely freaking out over DOGE's 'hostile takeover' of USAID, which on Monday was folded into the State Department under Marco Rubio.
In a nutshell, USAID has been a deep state slush fund used for unmitigated malarkey around the world, and was essentially a money laundering operation that has funded radical organizations linked to terrorists, censorship operations, EcoHealth Alliance, and a laundry list of other anti-American activities.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a bill into law on Jan. 23 that allows provincial and national authorities to “expropriate land in the public interest” for various reasons, “subject to just and equitable compensation being paid.”
The expropriation law aims to address racial disparities in land ownership. Thirty years after the apartheid system was abandoned, most farmland remains owned by white people.
Just hours after Trump unveiled double-digit tariffs on the three largest US trading partners, Canada and Mexico announced their own plans for retaliatory tariffs on the US. Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late on Saturday that Canada will respond by placing 25% counter-tariffs on C$155 billion ($107 billion) worth of American-made products, with items including beer, wine, bourbon, fruits, fruit juices, vegetables, clothes, perfume, household appliances, plastic, and lumber subject to tariffs. Hilariously, Canada is going especially hard after alcohol produced in Republican states...
DOGE moves into the Treasury, triggering their longest-serving, highest-ranked career official to quit in a huff, and they find that department has essentially been auto-paying everyone, according to Elon Musk.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that Contec CMS8000 devices, a widely used healthcare patient monitoring device, include a backdoor that quietly sends patient data to a remote IP address and downloads and executes files on the device.
Contec is a China-based company that specializes in healthcare technology, offering a range of medical devices including patient monitoring systems, diagnostic equipment, and laboratory instruments.
The key and strategic southern port city of Odessa has throughout the nearly three-year long war with Russia remained in Ukrainian hands. This has been one of the country's sole large shipping lifelines on the Black Sea and to the outside world.
This latest, third round of exchanges included 183 Palestinians set free who were held in Israeli prisons. They returned to Gaza Strip and the West bank to scenes of jubilation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is the largest recipient of money from Big Pharma, asked Kennedy if healthcare was a human right and then refused to let the HHS nominee answer his question with anything other than a “yes” or “no” answer.
Sanders would not let Kennedy differentiate between unalienable rights like free speech and man-made “rights” that create ever-increasing obligations to the government.
Since President Donald Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, illegal alien encounters at the southern US border have plummeted an average of 94% during his first 9 days, compared to President Biden's last 19 days in office.
“Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine”
To the ordinary reader, the headline says pretty clearly that Kennedy asked his lawyer to revoke the polio vaccine. The headline makes the shocking accusation that Kennedy is in favor of banning the polio vaccine. There is no other way of interpreting it.
But it is flagrantly false and a gross distortion of the truth. There is not one polio vaccine; there are six different polio vaccines that are used worldwide. Moreover, Aaron Siri, the lawyer in question, does not represent Kennedy in his petition.
During his trial in 2007, prosecutors noted that Polanco had a history of entering the U.S. illegally multiple times and had a habit of hiding behind fake names and false documents.
John Fitzpatrick, the instructor of the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project which helped get Polanco released, insisted that the parole board “did its job” reasonably by releasing the violent killer.
The Trump administration will impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China starting on Feb. 1 over the countries’ roles in facilitating the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Jan. 31.
"No one should be fooled here. As secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy will have the power to undercut vaccines and vaccine manufacturing across our country," Warren concluded, after rattling off a list of ways in which he could influence his own lawsuits as head of HHS. "Kennedy can kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it. Kids might die but Robert Kennedy can keep cashing in," she continued.
To which Kennedy replied: "I support vaccines," and accused her of asking him not to sue drug companies.
Kan reported Tuesday that "senior White House officials conveyed a message to their Israeli counterparts indicating that President Trump intends to pull thousands of US troops from Syria."
Multiple FBI agents assigned to assist ICE with illegal alien deportations in Chicago last weekend, called in sick with the “Blue Flu,” according to an FBI whistleblower.
On January 22, Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the FBI; U.S. Marshal’s Service; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to assist ICE with deportations.
"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze.
It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo.
Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction.
The President's EO's on federal funding remain in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is about to drop the hammer on retired Gen. Mark Milley, Trump's former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and one of the president's favorite rhetorical punching bags. In addition to pulling Milley's security clearance and yanking his personal security detail, Hegseth will also ask the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate his conduct, and the probe could end in Milley receiving a demotion, Fox News reported Tuesday.
"An update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study, the drones flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones are hobbyist and recreational drones that enjoy flying drones," Leavitt said during her press conference.
She concluded on the drone subject: "This was not the enemy."
“Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200. I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage,” Melugin urged.
He continued, “The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week, bouncing between 1,200-1,400 illegal crossings daily, but the numbers have been falling off a cliff since Trump took office.”
