Little noticed interview explains vaccines are powerless at stopping delta variant
Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appeared on CNN in August and admitted that COVID-19 vaccines cannot prevent the transmission of COVID-19, citing the delta variant.
Walensky said that the controversial vaccines are working “exceptionally well” at keeping people from experiencing severe illness and death after they contract COVID-19, but admits, “what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” She then urged the vaccinated to go back to wear masks.
Specifically, those who are vaccinated should “continue to wear a mask” indoors if they are in the presence of people who are unable to be vaccinated or are immunosuppressed or “a little bit, uh, frail” or have a high risk comorbidity like obesity.
The CDC has been criticized for being partisan and authoritarian throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, first with masks and now with vaccines. Recently, National File examined available CDC data and found that the federal agency’s own numbers suggest children are more likely to die from drug overdose, suicide, and influenza than COVID-19.
On August 26, 2021, the definition of “vaccine” on the CDC website was “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease.” The definition of “vaccination” at that time was “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.”
As of yesterday, the new definition of “vaccine” on the CDC website is “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.” The definition of “vaccination” describes “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.”
China military planes reportedly landed at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. This is after Biden abandoned the base in its hasty surrender of the country.
For the first time since Joe Biden and General Milley withdrew all US forces from Bagram Air Base and left the Taliban with billions in US military weapons, the lights at Bagram were turned on last night.
Local witnessed several military planes, reportedly from China, landing and taking off from the base last night.
There have been multiple reports of military planes arriving at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, just hours after images emerged showing that power was restored to the base for the first time since US forces evacuated the stronghold in July.
Images circulating on social media appear to show the airbase’s floodlights blazing in the distance, amid reports that several military planes have taken off and landed at the base in recent hours.
Several sources suggest that the aircraft are Chinese, given the Taliban are not thought to possess the expertise needed to power the base or maintain and fly several military aircraft.
The Taliban rejected rumors China was at the former US base:
#Taliban rejected d rumors that any #Chinese security forces or plane hav arrivd in #Bagram_airbase. Taliban's reaction to rumors came after last night residents of #Bagram district claimed d base's floodlights lit up after weeks& some Chinese planes with personnel landed. (AT-B)
There are other reports of China meeting with the Taliban.
Sources in Afghanistan say that Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who the FBI wants for coordinating terrorist attacks against U.S. and Coalition Forces, has met several times with China’s Intelligence Chief, Chen Wenqing, in Kabul. https://t.co/IVt6iGh0zH
President Joe Biden said on Saturday he was going to “work like hell” to get both an infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill passed through Congress and plans to travel more to bolster support with Americans.
Biden visited the Capitol on Friday to try to end a fight between moderates and left-leaning progressives in his Democratic Party that has threatened the two bills that make up the core of his domestic agenda.
The president on Saturday acknowledged criticism that he had not done more to gin up support for the bills by traveling around the country. He said there were many reasons for that, including his focus on hurricane and storm damage during recent trips, among other things.
Biden said he would be traveling to make “the case why it’s so important” to pass the bills and to make clear what is in them.
He said the bills were designed to make life easier for ordinary Americans by making child care affordable, for example.
“There’s nothing in any of these pieces of legislation that’s radical, that is unreasonable,” Biden said. “I’m going to try to sell what I think the people, the American people, will buy.”
Biden expressed confidence that both bills would get passed but declined to set a deadline, such as the November Thanksgiving holiday, for when that would happen.
“I believe I can get this done,” Biden said.
Moderate Democratic lawmakers wanted an immediate vote on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill in the House of Representatives that has already passed the Senate, while progressives want to wait until there is agreement on a sweeping $3.5 trillion bill to bolster social spending and fight climate change.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic lawmakers in a letter on Saturday that the House must approve the infrastructure bill “well before” Oct. 31, when highway funding legislation is set to expire. She said talks are continuing over the social spending bill. “We will and must pass both bills soon.”
Biden, a former senator who is deeply familiar with the legislative process, told his caucus on Friday that they could delay a vote on the smaller bill and sharply scale back the larger one to around $2 trillion.
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said the president and his team would continue to engage with members of the House and Senate throughout the weekend. “And he looks forward to not only welcoming members to the White House next week, but also traveling the country to make the case for his bold and ambitious agenda,” she said.
Meanwhile the president said on Saturday he hoped Republicans would not use a filibuster in the Senate to block efforts to raise the debt ceiling.
“That would be totally unconscionable,” he said.
The Treasury Department estimates that it has until about Oct. 18 for the government’s $28.4 trillion borrowing limit to be raised by Congress or risk a debt default that could lead to potentially catastrophic economic consequences.
Former President Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, arguing the company improperly suspended him after receiving pressure from members of Congress.
Twitter “exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate,” the Friday filing read, Bloomberg reported.
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The filing also claims that Twitter improperly censored his content while he was on the platform by branding his tweets with tags like “misleading information” and other partisan labels.
While Trump is banned from Twitter, the Taliban still have an active Twitter account.
The filing also argues that Twitter had selectively enforced its policies, noting that the Taliban appeared on the platform in August.
“Over the weeks that followed, Twitter allowed the Taliban to tweet regularly about their military conquests and victories across Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Twitter account is active to this day,” the filing states.
Drivers heading south on U.S. Route 183 in Austin, Texas, have become familiar with a billboard urging city police officers to relocate to Spokane, Washington, to become deputy sheriffs and collect a $15,000 bonus.
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has targeted Texas’ capital city, already in a personnel crunch as the homicide rate reached a record high, along with other jurisdictions that recently slashed police budgets.
Amid the “defund the police” movement in 2020, the Austin City Council cut the police budget by about one-third and eventually lost 150 officers. In August, shortly before the city reached its all-time record for annual homicides, the council restored the funding.
“Austin is an incredibly fast-growing city. So we have more people coming in. We are losing about 15 police officers a month,” Lars Trautman, national director of the Right on Crime program for the Austin-based think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, told The Daily Signal.
“And now we have a giant billboard go up along one of our highways from the Spokane Sheriff’s Department trying to lure our police officers away,” Trautman said. “It’s certainly not something that Austin residents like to see on their drive to work in the morning.”
The Austin City Council restored the police budget and then some, largely to comply with a new Texas law that withholds state aid to jurisdictions that defund their police forces.
But the Austin Police Department still struggles with a personnel shortage.
The council’s budget cut last year brought the number of officers from 1,949 to 1,809. However, as of Thursday, the Austin Police Department employed 1,612 officers, a police spokesman told The Daily Signal.
The council voted 9-2 late Thursday night to confirm department veteran Joseph Chacon, who is white, as the city’s new police chief over the objections of NAACP leaders and other activists who favored one of two black candidates from the Los Angeles and Dallas forces.
Chacon, previously an assistant chief, had served as interim chief for about six months when City Manager Spencer Cronk appointed him to the post on a permanent basis last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
The newspaper reported that the council’s vote to confirm Chacon as chief came a day after he announced that the department no longer would respond to some calls due to limited staffing, including burglary in cases where the intruder has left the scene, plus auto theft, vandalism, and other thefts.
Homicide at 37-Year High
The homicide rate this year in Austin, with a population topping 950,000, is the highest recorded in the 61 years such data has been available.
As of Sept. 12, 60 homicides had occurred so far in 2021, more than in any full calendar year on record, according to statistics compiled by KVUE-TV, Austin’s ABC affiliate, and the Austin American-Statesman newspaper using a combination of local and FBI crime data.
The number of homicides in Austin is the highest since 1984, which saw 59 murders the entire calendar year. It’s also up significantly from 48 homicides in 2020, 39 in 2019, and 35 in 2018.
From June 2020 through April 2021, Austin’s homicide rate increased by 44% from the same period a year earlier, according to data from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a national group that provides legal defense for police.
During that same period, police retirements increased by 65% and resignations increased by 63%.
Crime began to spike across the nation in the wake of protests and riots that followed the death of a black man in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020.
Beyond funding, a drop in society’s support of police also prompted departures by officers, said Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
Johnson notes that Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, a Democrat, who has jurisdiction over Austin, prioritizes prosecutions of police officers.
“Violent crimes, homicides, nonfatal shootings, [and] carjackings have gone up in cities that target their police,” Johnson told The Daily Signal. “Restoring funding doesn’t restore a police department. Many of the officers leave these departments for self-preservation.”
‘Recruiting in Full Swing’
Correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Trautman said, but studies show that police forces deter homicide.
“When you have a city like Austin, which cut their budget by a third in the course of one year and has an ongoing officer shortage, certainly … common sense and research would suggest that might be related to the homicide spike we are seeing here,” Trautman said.
The 11-member Austin City Council unanimously voted last year to cut $21.5 million from the police budget and shift another $128 million to other city departments, which led to dissolving some police units and canceling cadet classes.
Mayor Steve Adler, also a member of the council, supported the budget cut. Council races officially are nonpartisan, but Adler and the other current council members are Democrats.
After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation in June to penalize municipalities that cut police funding, the Austin City Council responded by voting for a $443 million police budget for fiscal year 2022, up 43% from $309.7 million in fiscal 2021.
More than 20 other major cities across the United States cut their police budgets last year, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Baltimore.
The nation’s police forces, including the Austin Police Department, are working on recruitment.
“Across the nation, recruiting law enforcement officers is very competitive, and APD’s recruiting efforts stretch from coast to coast. We are currently advertising and recruiting in several major metropolitan areas around the country,” the Austin police spokesman said in an email to The Daily Signal, adding:
APD has always been at the forefront of recruiting and training the most highly qualified applicants in the nation. Our recruiting efforts are in full swing for cadet classes starting in 2022. APD currently has an officer retention program focused on officers who are eligible for full retirement and is currently exploring additional officer retention programs.
Dismissing Spike in Crime
But pouring money back into the city’s police department is unfortunate, said Kathy Mitchell, policy coordinator for Just Liberty, an Austin activist group that advocated cutting the police budget.
Higher crime rates, Mitchell argues, have little do with fewer police officers.
“Certain crimes have increased nationwide. They’ve increased in cities that cut their budgets. They’ve increased in cities that did not cut their budgets,” Mitchell, also a member of the city’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force, told The Daily Signal.
“They’ve increased in cities that have very high police-to-population staffing ratios, and they’ve increased in cities that do not,” she said. “It is very clear that there is no relationship [between] how many police a city has and what they did in the last budget cycle to what is happening to certain crimes right now.”
In June, KVUE reported that violent crime in Austin has far outpaced the population, which has grown by 4% in the past five years, beginning in 2017.
Murder saw a 200% increase over five years, KVUE found. Aggravated assaults were up by 36% over the five years and car thefts by 77%. Only burglaries were down, by 9%.
Austin is spending about $30 million on efforts to “reimagine” police.
Last summer, the task force issued an interim report that says: “Police do not and cannot prevent crime from happening. In 2019, fewer than half of crimes in the U.S. were reported, and fewer than half of those reported were solved.”
The co-chairs of Austin’s task force are Paula X. Rojas of the group Communities of Color and Brion Oaks, who is Austin’s chief equity officer.
“Only 32.5% of household property crimes were reported and only 17.2% of property crimes reported were cleared,” the task force report says, adding:
Police do not spend most of their time addressing violent crime. Less than 1% of calls APD responds to are related to violent crime. Even then, there is often little they can do by the time they arrive.
‘Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth’
The money cut from Austin’s police budget went to hire paramedics and buy ambulances and to open another shelter for victims of domestic violence, Mitchell said.
The 911 dispatch operation and the forensic lab were separated temporarily from the police department, but were reconnected after the council restored funding, she said.
“The actual cuts last summer were not large. There was a rebucketing of divisions,” Mitchell said, adding that a temporary closure of the police academy and routine retirements led to staffing issues more than budget cuts did.
“There is an enormous amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth in this town because for a very short time, thanks to lawsuits and complaints and huge attrition problems at the police academy, the city closed it temporarily,” she said. “Is that a reason to panic? Absolutely not.”
The council’s increase in the police budget creates a new baseline, because the state law—passed by a Republican Legislature and signed by a Republican governor—prevents cities and other jurisdictions in Texas from decreasing funding for police departments as circumstances change.
“This has become a very strange fight where conservatives who once believed in smaller government and less spending are doubling down on the very, most expensive kind of staffing to do the maximum number of things,” Mitchell said. “This is a very strange place for the GOP to have ended up.”
A top diplomat under President Trump has sounded the alarm on China’s pursuit for global dominance. On Friday, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Freedom Sam Brownback warned China is using its One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative in Africa to leverage its economic power in order to phase America out of the international stage. Brownback added U.S. lawmakers need to move fast to secure America’s position as top superpower.
China began pumping billions of dollars into Africa’s infrastructure beginning as early as the year 2000, before the Chinese Communist Party head, Xi Jingping, officially announced the initiative in 2013. The program aimed to bolster China’s relationships with several countries including Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya.
Additionally, the CCP’s funds helped develop infrastructure projects such as transportation networks, port facilities and telecommunications infrastructure.
“They want that model of authoritarian control to expand around the world and they’re playing big in Africa. That hurts us if you get more countries going to this authoritarian model,” said Brownback. “Plus, there’s just the raw resource issue that China has been after for decades now in Africa, tying up these raw resources for their global economic dominance that they seek.”
Chinese leaders touted the One Belt One Road initiative as a path towards establishing strong economic partnerships. However, Brownback argued China aims to exploit the region’s natural resources and lay down its authoritarian roots in the region, hoping to spread its influence throughout the world.
Experts have suggested the initiative has lost traction amid commodity prices plaguing African countries’ economies before the pandemic, and the near total halt of economic activity once COVID-19 struck their communities. Researchers say this is hindering African leaders’ abilities to pay off their debts to China.
Studies have predicted this could buy time for other superpowers to undermine China’s influence. Brownback stressed America needs to take steps to challenge China’s role in the region and promote religious, economic and personal freedom in Africa.
In the meantime, the former ambassador said he believes the American public will welcome this approach, as long as policy makers promote these ideals without acting as state builders.
VAERS data released Friday by the CDC included a total of 752,803 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 15,937 deaths and 105,758 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and Sept. 24, 2021.
Data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that between Dec. 14, 2020 and Sept. 24, 2021, a total of 752,803 adverse events following COVID vaccines were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The data included a total of 15,937 reports of deaths — an increase of 551 over the previous week.
Of the 7,215 U.S. deaths reported as of Sept. 24, 11% occurred within 24 hours of vaccination, 16% occurred within 48 hours of vaccination and 29% occurred in people who experienced an onset of symptoms within 48 hours of being vaccinated.
In the U.S., 388.2 million COVID vaccine doses had been administered as of Sept. 24. This includes: 223 million doses of Pfizer, 151 million doses of Moderna and 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
The data come directly from reports submitted to VAERS, the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S.
Every Friday, VAERS makes public all vaccine injury reports received as of a specified date, usually about a week prior to the release date. Reports submitted to VAERS require further investigation before a causal relationship can be confirmed. Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
This week’s U.S. data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:
20,907 total adverse events, including 1,256 rated as serious and 21 reported deaths. Two of the 21 deaths were suicides.The most recent deaths involve a 17-year-old male (VAERS I.D. 1689212) with cancer who was vaccinated April 17, tested positive for COVID on July 20, was hospitalized and passed away Aug. 29; and a 16-year-old female (VAERS I.D. 1694568) who died from a pulmonary embolism nine days after receiving her first Pfizer dose.
Other recent reported deaths include two patients [VAERS I.D. 1655100] who died after their second dose of Pfizer, including a 13-year-old female, a 15-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1498080) who previously had COVID, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in May 2021 and died four days after receiving his second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine when he collapsed on the soccer field and went into ventricular tachycardia; and a 13-year-old girl (VAERS I.D. 1505250) who died after suffering a heart condition after receiving her first dose of Pfizer.
CDC issues ‘urgent’ alert for pregnant women to get COVID vaccines, despite thousands of reported adverse events
The CDC on Wednesday issued its strongest guidance to date urging pregnant women and those who recently gave birth to be vaccinated against COVID. A total of 161 pregnant women have died of COVID, the CDC said, including 22 deaths in August.
“CDC strongly recommends COVID-19 vaccination either before or during pregnancy because the benefits of vaccination outweigh known or potential risks,” the agency said in a health alert. To date, only 31% of pregnant people have been vaccinated, the CDC said.
The CDC said COVID during pregnancy can cause preterm birth or sick babies that require intensive care. “Other adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as stillbirth, have been reported,” the CDC said.
However, as of Sept 24, CDC VAERS data show 3,823 pregnant women have reported adverse events related to COVID vaccines, including 1,144 reports of miscarriage or premature birth — a far greater number than the statistics the CDC used to justify its “urgent” recommendation that pregnant woman get vaccinated.
Woman injured by COVID vaccine pleads with health agencies for help, as Pfizer pressures local news agency to kill story
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, 40-year-old Kristi Dobbs said she’s spent nine months pleading with U.S. health agencies to research the neurological injuries she developed after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, only to be ignored after she provided the National Institutes of Health (NIH) blood samples for research.
#TheDefender Exclusive Interview: Kristi Dobbs recounted how she’s spent 9 months pleading w/health agencies to research neurological injuries she developed after Pfizer’s vaccine + how she is trying to get word out about vaccine’s potential risks.https://t.co/WFyuobbEFF
Dobbs received her first and only dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine on Jan. 18, and has been unable to work and care for her family since. Dobbs has seen 16 different medical providers and tried 22 different medications to address more than 20 different symptoms — none of which she had prior to getting vaccinated.
Dobbs symptoms include full-body paresthesia, internal tremors/vibrations, fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain and weakness, pelvic pain, irregular menstrual cycles, skin rashes, tinnitus, temperature regulation issues, swollen lymph nodes, loss of appetite, weight loss, dizziness/balance issues, blood pressure regulation issues, neck pain, headaches, heart palpitations, convulsions at night and insomnia.
Although NIH officials acknowledged in communications to Dobbs they were aware of neurological injuries being reported in people after receiving COVID vaccines, they have not published the data they’ve collected to the scientific community as promised, so that people like Dobbs can find effective treatments.
Dobbs said she and others who developed neurological injuries after a COVID vaccine shared their experiences with a reporter in hope of raising awareness. But the story never ran because, according to the reporter, a “higher up” at Pfizer pressured the news agency to drop it.
Pfizer submits data for 5- to 11-year-olds to FDA
Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday submitted initial trial data for their COVID vaccine in children ages 5 to 11, and said they would make a formal request to U.S. regulators for emergency use in the coming weeks — though they had previously targeted submitting the application as early as the end of September.
If Pfizer does not finish its application until mid-October, the FDA may not make its decision until sometime between Halloween and Thanksgiving, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was rapidly authorized for the 12-15 age group roughly a month after the companies filed for authorization. If the same timeline is followed for this application younger children could start receiving their shots as soon as late October, Reuters reported.
Tennis pro ends season due to COVID vaccine injury
Professional tennis player Jeremy Chardy — formerly ranked 25th in the world — said his 2021 season is over thanks to a “series of problems” he experienced after getting a COVID vaccine between the Olympics and U.S. open.
Chardy, 34, said since receiving his vaccine he suddenly couldn’t train or play, and needs more time to care for himself to ensure he doesn’t have health problems returning to the court too soon.
Chardy told AFP he was suffering from movement-limiting pain — which caused violent pains all over his body as soon as he made any physical effort. Chardy said he regrets taking the vaccine, but he couldn’t have known.
NBA players stand firm against COVID vaccines
A few high-profile NBA players who are part of the remaining 10% of players who have not received a COVID vaccine are making headlines as they defend their position not to get vaccinated.
Pro tennis player Jeremy Chardy says his 2021 season is over thanks to a "series of problems" he experienced after getting Pfizer’s vaccine. Orlando Magic's @JJudahIsaac stands firm on why (including he had COVID) he's not getting vaccine.https://t.co/ZuuLyWIzZP
On Monday, at Orlando Magic Media Day, Jonathan Isaac, who has already had COVID, answered questions about his decision not to get the vaccine — a decision that potentially could lead to missing games based on the NBA’s protocols in various cities.
Isaac said he is not anti-vax, anti-science or anti-medicine, but he is uncomfortable with taking the vaccine at this time, and it is his belief that every person should have the right to make their own choice about whether or not to get the vaccine — without bullying, being pressured or forced to do so.
Bradley Beal, a guard for the Washington Wizards, and Andrew Wiggins, a forward for the Golden State Warriors, said they also had not received COVID vaccines.
Beals, who has already had COVID, cited personal reasons for his refusal but questioned reporters on breakthrough cases, natural immunity and the vaccine’s inability to prevent COVID. Wiggins said his decision not to get vaccinated is a private matter.
Breakthrough COVID cases surge as Harvard moves classes online and Broadway’s ‘Aladdin’ canceled
A Broadway performance of Disney’s “Aladdin” was canceled Wednesday due to COVID breakthrough cases within the company, producers said — just one night after the show had resumed for the first time since the pandemic shut-down.
All of New York’s 41 Broadway theaters require eligible audiences, crews, performers and other staff to be vaccinated against COVID, according to the Broadway League’s policy.
Harvard Business School is pivoting back to remote learning as the first semester of 2021 begins, due to a “steady rise” in breakthrough COVID cases. Harvard University said on its website 95% of students and 96% of employees are vaccinated.
Several states are reporting a rise in breakthrough cases, including Massachusetts — which reported 4,378 new COVID cases in fully vaccinated individuals between Sept. 18 and Sept. 25 — Oregon, which said 23% of new cases ending Sept. 18 occurred in the fully vaccinated and Indiana, which reported more than 33,851 breakthrough cases since vaccines were authorized for emergency use in Dec. 14, 2020.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show as of Sept. 20, 19,136 patients were hospitalized or died despite being fully vaccinated — a number the agency acknowledges is an undercount of all SARS-CoV-2 infections among fully vaccinated persons.
In collaboration with its supporters and partners, Gab is reportedly developing an infrastructure that will soon support a parallel society where Christians can be free to live out Biblical values.
In contrast to traditional media, technology can serve a parallel society on the web. Independent thinkers and Christian entrepreneurs like Gab CEO Andrew Torba believe that this is possible for people of faith.
“Many of you don’t know that I lived and worked in Silicon Valley as a Christian entrepreneur before starting Gab in 2016, wrote Torba on September 27. “Few Christians can truly understand what it means to live in the nihilistic hellhole of a post-truth, post-morality, and post-Christian world until they have lived in San Francisco among the most narcissistic, empty, and sociopathic people in Silicon Valley.”
After witnessing how a group of people in Silicon Valley undermine free speech and Christian values, he said that one of his greatest fears is that there will eventually be no place for people to talk and learn about the Gospel online.
“I couldn’t stand by and watch that happen,” he declared.
Therefore, Torba introduced the concept of a “parallel” world; one that has parallel economies, parallel infrastructures, parallel societies, and now, parallel technologies.
In light of the fact that it is the digital era in which information is exchanged efficiently via technology, Torba and his team have gone to work. Earlier this week, he announced that his team installed a new storage system with 600 terabytes of capacity in one of Gab’s own data centers.
“We do not have the luxury of being hosted in the cloud by Amazon, Microsoft, or Google web services. We had no choice but to build our own and invest millions of dollars in time and hardware to maintain and grow our servers,” he explained.
While the CEO acknowledged that a lot of time and money were spent behind the scenes to make Gab possible, he said that it was well worth it. This is because on Gab, he sees Christians thrive, and that the Gospel is being spread.
“Gabbers are starting businesses, holding virtual Bible studies, starting groups to connect and fellowship with one another, praying for one another, and many are even embracing the love and saving grace of Jesus Christ for the first time in their lives,” he reported.
The Gab network also allows users to spot and support Christian entrepreneurs, authors, news outlets, and artists. Additionally, Gab Ads have shown to be very helpful for Christian entertainment production businesses like Revelation Media.
Although it is simple to declare one’s disinterest in Netflix and other media sources as well as entertainment created by evil-minded individuals, Torba pointed out that something must be done to fill that vacuum. So, with that in mind, he recommended Revelation Media as one of the many Christian solutions working in the direction of a parallel society.
“This is why Gab’s infrastructure must be preserved and expanded at all costs,” he continued. “Not only is it powering the real time flow of information, but it’s also powering the creation of a parallel Christian economy where Christians can discover parallel goods, services, and entertainment being provided or sold by other Christians.”
He said that Christian’s great-grandchildren would one day discover the truth about the “Great Spiritual War” and how their predecessors set the groundwork for a parallel Christian civilization.
“It’s really amazing to see. A parallel Christian society is forming-and it’s growing quickly,” he proclaimed.
President Joe Biden argued Saturday that his radical left multitrillion-dollar spending agenda was not radical, as Democrat infighting stalled progress of his proposed legislation.
“There’s nothing in any of these pieces of legislation that is radical, that is unreasonable, that is when you look at it individually,” Biden said.
Biden’s agenda includes a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion entitlement spending bill that would also dramatically raise taxes to help pay for entitlements, such as free universal pre-K, government subsidized child and elder care, two years of free college, and more spending on food stamps.
The president spoke to reporters as he left the White House Saturday morning for another weekend at his home in Delaware.
Biden exited the White House with a cup of coffee and a newspaper but pulled down his mask to talk to reporters.
US President Joe Biden speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2021. – Biden is traveling to Wilmington, Delaware, for the weekend. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Pressed on if he's confident on getting his infrastructure agenda passed, Pres. Biden tells @maryaliceparks: "I believe that I can get this done. I believe that when the American people are aware what's in it we can get it done." https://t.co/p4waKPeGPApic.twitter.com/fXNywIJ0ow
The president criticized the news reports that reported that he “vowed” to get the bills through.
“Biden is going to work like hell to make sure we get both of these passed, and I think we will get them passed,” he said, referring to himself in the third person.
The president said he would campaign on his stalled agenda across the country in the upcoming week.
“I believe that I can get this done. I believe that when the American people are aware what’s in it, we can get it done,” he said.
On the delay in the vote on his infrastructure agenda, Pres. Biden says, "everybody's frustrated—It's part of being in government, being frustrated," adding: "I think we will get them passed." https://t.co/2Bq0ki4Rgppic.twitter.com/5iX3oF2ytw
The president also complained about news reports that pointed out his failure to sell his agenda on the road.
“Well, for a few little things, like we had hurricanes and floods, and we had little things like … anyway, a lot of going on,” he said.
Biden insisted he was “not” frustrated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) failure to get his agenda across the finish line but conceded that the infighting in his party was taking a toll.
“Everybody’s frustrated. It’s part of being in government, being frustrated,” he added.
Biden alluded to Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) — two moderate senators who remain opposed to his massive spending agenda.
“We can bring the moderates and progressives together very easy if we had two more votes,” he said. “Two. Two people.”
A Georgia neighborhood was terrorized by a person claiming to be a white male member of the Ku Klux Klan. However, police now say that the person making racially motivated threats to burn down houses in the neighborhood and kill people is actually a black woman.
Last December, residents of the Brookmont subdivision of Douglasville began receiving racially charged letters in their mailboxes. The handwritten notes claimed to be from a 6-foot tall, white male with a long, red beard, who was a member of the KKK.
“The notes threatened to burn their houses down and kill them and said that they didn’t belong in the neighborhood,” said Detective Nathan Shumaker.
The notes – which used the N-word and talked about hanging people – were received by at least seven black residents in the suburb about 25 miles from Atlanta, according to WGCL-TV.
The Douglasville Police Department said the investigation started by detectives going “door-to-door to check doorbell cameras and gather whatever information they could from the residents.” They also handed out flyers to residents about the racially motivated threats.
The letters – which were delivered in the middle of the night – stopped in January, but picked up again in February and March.
An alarmed resident alerted local media to the story, and the letters stopped again until the final letter was delivered on Sept. 6.
Detectives Andre Futch and Shumaker determined that the letters had “similar handwriting, tone and verbiage with some distinctive letters that were consistent throughout.”
On Sept. 6, law enforcement found evidence linking the terroristic letters to the home of Terresha Lucas – a 30-year-old black female. The detectives gathered enough evidence to obtain a search warrant. During the search, detectives found other evidence that tied the suspect to the threatening notes, Shumaker said.
Lucas was charged with eight counts of making terroristic threats. The motive behind the hate hoax was not immediately released by authorities.
Police Chief Dr. Gary Sparks commended the detectives, “Our investigators had the drive to stick with this case and see it all to the end. That’s what we’re all about and this reflects the professionalism and integrity of the department.”
“They stayed with it and put in a lot of hours. Even when some people went to the media, which could have hampered our investigation, we still stuck with it to the end,” Sparks added.
This is the second hate hoax incident near Atlanta to garner national headlines in as many weeks.
Last week, a black former Emory University employee was arrested and suspected of writing the N-word and drawing swastikas on the university’s autism center.
Another race hate hoax was exposed this week in Missouri, where racist graffiti was painted in a high school bathroom that ignited a student walkout. However, the school district revealed that the culprit was a black student.
In May, a “person of color” created an Instagram account that spewed hateful, racist messages. The incendiary posts sparked a school walkout in Minnesota, but later was revealed to be “a hoax sent under false pretense.”
In April, racist and anti-Semitic graffiti featuring references to the Klu Klux Klan was found at Michigan’s Albion College, which prompted students and staff members to walk out of the school. The perpetrator, who is black, admitted to writing the racist messages.
