The United States is sadly losing the battle against addiction. According to statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US recorded its highest number of drug overdose deaths in a 12-month period up to April 2021, passing 100,000 for the first time – a 29% year-on-year …
Read More »More states sue Biden’s White House over Covid-19 vaccine mandate
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed this week, include attorney generals for the states of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia. The lawsuit blasts the Biden administration for “playing statutory shell games with the courts” and “straining to justify an unjustifiable and unprecedented attempt to …
Read More »Multiple states slap Biden with ANOTHER vaccine mandate lawsuit
Ten states, including one led by a Democratic governor, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court in St. Louis, claiming that the mandate violates multiple constitutional amendments. Missouri is the lead plaintiff and is joined in the case by Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, …
Read More »G20 leaders endorse deal on minimum corporate tax that could make rich states richer, but leave poor ones in the dust
“We call on the OECD-G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting to swiftly develop the model rules and multilateral instruments as agreed in the Detailed Implementation Plan, with a view to ensure that the new rules will come into effect at global level in 2023,” the draft conclusions …
Read More »US states placing orders to begin vaccinating children, White House says, as regulators poised to approve Pfizer jab for kids 5-11
“States have now placed their initial orders of vaccine for kids. And upon FDA authorization of the vaccine, millions of doses will be shipped immediately to tens of thousands of pediatricians, family doctors, children’s hospitals, community health centers, rural health clinics, and pharmacies – providers parents and kids know and …
Read More »Vax-A-Million fail? Vaccine lotteries across 19 states had near ‘zero’ effect on immunization rates, new study finds
Published in the JAMA medical journal on Friday, the pre-print study by researchers at the University of Colorado Denver showed that the links between vaccine lottery announcements and inoculation rates were “very small in magnitude” and “statistically indistinguishable from zero.” “No statistically significant association was detected between a cash-drawing announcement and …
Read More »New ‘United States of Al’ features Kabul airport chaos, but were producers influenced by the US Marine Corps?
The sitcom centres on Al, an interpreter from Afghanistan who relocates to Columbus, Ohio and moves in with the family of Riley, a Marine Corps veteran he worked with in Afghanistan. OMG, Culture Clash! The low-brow nature of this premise is epitomised by the third episode, when Al becomes unnerved …
Read More »Amid fresh tensions with NATO states, Belarus to purchase $1bn worth of Russian arms, including S-400 missile defense – Lukashenko
“We are holding talks and are planning S-400 deliveries,” Lukashenko told journalists, on Sunday, as he attended the Zapad-2021 drills held jointly, on a quadrennial basis, by Russia and Belarus. The Belarusian president also said that security was a major issue on the agenda of his talks with Russia’s President …
Read More »20 US states sue Biden admin over guidance allowing biological males on women’s sports teams
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by attorneys general from 20 Republican-run states, led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slattery. The suit claims that an executive order issued by Biden in January, along with two directives issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Education, amounted …
Read More »Biden’s attempt to penalize red states for fighting mask mandates under the guise of ‘civil rights’ will only deepen divisions
Earlier this month, Joe Biden announced he would be targeting Republican-led states over mask mandates. Though different methods had been discussed when considering exactly what legal technicalities it was looking to use to do this, Biden’s administration eventually revealed it would be investigating several states for “civil rights” abuses. The …
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