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White House Admits: Joe Biden Didn’t Visit Tree of Life Synagogue After Massacre Like He’d Claimed

Eleven people died and several more were injured during the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting, carried out by a white supremacist, Robert Bowers, in 2018. The tragedy has often been portrayed as one of the worst anti-Semitic crimes in the history of America.

US President Joe Biden has been proven wrong once again.

The White House admitted on Friday that the president didn’t visit the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the wake of 2018 mass shooting that left 11 congregants dead.

Biden made the claim on Thursday, as he was speaking to Jewish leaders in a virtual event ahead of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur holidays.

“I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,” the president said during a 16-minute address as he was decrying acts of anti-Semitism.

However, Tree of Life executive director Barb Feige told the New York Post shortly after the event that Biden hadn’t made a personal visit to the tragedy-struck synagogue, neither before nor after taking office.

The synagogue’s rabbi Jeffrey Myers, however, told CNN that Biden called him almost a year after the tragedy:

“President Biden kindly called me on my cell phone as I was sitting in Dulles Airport awaiting a return flight to Pittsburgh after I testified before Congress in July 2019,” Myers said in a statement, adding that the conversation “meant a great deal” to him.

After Biden’s faulty claims got scrutinised by the media, the White House admitted to the New York Post that the president was referring to “a call he had with the Tree of Life rabbi in 2019.”

Former President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania meanwhile paid a personal visit to the Pittsburgh synagogue three days after the shooting that took lives of 11 people, including Holocaust survivors, and left six more injured. The first family’s procession to the crime scene included Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and then- Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin.

Joe Biden has visibly struggled with his memory during the Thursday speech. The president had trouble recalling the names of the hymn “On Eagle’s Wings” and “Hava Nagilia” – a traditional Jewish song – as he was reminiscing about his daughter’s wedding to a Jewish doctor, which he joked was “the dream of every Catholic father”.

“My mind is going blank now, what’s the song that is played where everybody is on the chair? I can’t remember it,” the president told rabbis during the address.

Joe Biden’s mental soundness has long been a matter of public scrutiny due to his old age and a string of public gaffes and dubious statements in the past. Just last month Biden raised many eyebrows in the wake of the chaotic US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, when he claimed that al-Qaeda* was “gone” from the country after 20 years of America’s military presence. The statement was later debunked by his own officials.

Insane packed crowd at US college game triggers Aussie footy fans

As Australian sporting fans continue to endure Covid-19 lockdowns, a viral video of a football stadium in the US packed with spectators has shown exactly what we’re missing out on.

With Australia’s domestic football and competitions tiptoeing their way around the country in biosecure bubbles and games often being held in front of no crowd at all, Aussie fanatics are desperate to get back to attending live sporting events.

Fans around the world were left stunned at footage of the capacity crowd at the American football college game between Virginia Tech University and the University of North Carolina on Saturday (AEST).

Last year’s college football season was heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US and crowds were either significantly reduced or banned altogether as the country dealt with rising case numbers. Even the popular tailgating gatherings were not allowed by several colleges.

But with the new college football season getting underway this week, full capacity crowds have been permitted for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Virginia Tech’s fans made the most of the chance and came out in force to support their team in the first home game of the season, sparking wild scenes at Lane Stadium.

The arena has a capacity of 66,000 and it’s safe to say every square metre of the grandstands was full and absolutely rocking.

In wild scenes usually only seen in movies, swathes of local fans decked out in orange were jumping up and down like crazy, cheering on the Hokies.

Both teams ran out onto the field with Metallica’s hit song “Enter Sandman” blaring through the Stadium’s sound system, adding to the electric atmosphere.

The insane crowd must have helped as well, since Virginia claimed an upset win over North Caroline 17-10.

Footage of the raucous crowd quickly went viral on social media and was shared by many Australian athletes and fans lamenting the fact such huge crowds are not impossible here.

Richmond Tigers coach Damien Hardwick tweeted: “Can’t wait to get the Tiger Army Back in 2022”, while retired Australian fast bowler Chadd Sayers described the vision as “spine-tingling”.

“This has been on my bucket list for a while, for obvious reasons,” cricket journalist Melinda Farrell wrote.

“Looking forward to the day when travel becomes easier.”

NRL.com senior reporter Brad Walter added: “If you miss the atmosphere of big events and being part of a heaving mass of humanity, this has to be our ambition for the start of next season.”

However, Australian basketball great Andrew Bogut was skeptical of the huge crowd, pointing out the US state of Virginia continues to record very high numbers of Covid-19 cases.

Interestingly, fans at the football game were required to wear masks in Lane Stadium but not at their seats.

The scenes are a far cry from crowds are allowed at sporting events in Australia at the moment.

Fans are allowed to attend matches in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Tasmania, but crowds are not possible in NSW and Victoria as those states deal with the outbreak and rising case numbers.

This year’s Australian F1 Grand Prix was cancelled, while both the AFL and NRL grand finals have been moved from their usual venues due to the Covid-19 outbreaks in Sydney in Melbourne.

AFL viewers were bemused by the sight of the goalposts at Optus Stadium in Perth being sprayed with disinfectant after Friday night’s AFL semi-final between Geelong and GWS.

Joe Rogan vs. Anthony Fauci

When it comes to taking advice on coronavirus mitigation, the American people would do far better to listen to comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan than National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Why? Rogan has common sense. Fauci is a power-monger and media whore whose flip-flopping scientific advisements are a) hardly scientific at all and b) oddly targeted toward clamping freedoms on those of conservative persuasion but not liberal. In other words: more non-science.

“If someone has an ideological or physiological reason for not getting vaccinated,” Rogan said, on the heels of refunding ticket costs to fans who didn’t want to obey New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s command to get vaccinated as a condition of entering places of entertainment, “I don’t want to force them to get vaccinated to see a [f—-ing] stupid comedy show. And now they say that everybody has to be vaccinated, and I want everybody to know that you can get your money back.”

Fauci, meanwhile, is out and about insisting on the need — surprise! — for a third shot and oh, yeah, by the way, guess what, little kids going to school should get vaccinated, too. Should? Wait — make that “must.”

His words, on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday: “I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea. We’ve done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis. So this would not be something new requiring vaccinations for children to come to school.”

That’s a different song than Fauci was singing in May when the good doctor’s view was this: “I’m not so sure we should be requiring children at all. We should be encouraging them.” He also at the time assured hesitant parents — don’t worry about it, the vaccine’s been around for almost a year and has presented “no long-term effects that anyone could notice.”

What a hoot.

How could anyone notice long-term effects when the vaccine’s only been around — at the time Fauci made those remarks — for only about a year? Shh. 

This is the same Fauci that at one time said not to wear a face mask, only later to advise wearing a face mask, only later to advise wearing two face masks, only later to advise goggles and eye shields, only later to change his tone and verbiage from that of advisory to one of mandatory.

“Theoretically,” Fauci said in July 2020, “you should protect all the mucosal surfaces. So if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it.”

Theoretically — Fauci’s not an elected official, sworn by office to protect and uphold the limits government provisions of the Constitution, along with the concept of individualism, not collectivism, that marks American politics and culture. But on that, it’s theory, schmeory. Fauci says — so Americans must do. So go the messages in the media and from Big Government mouths.

Rogan, on the other hand, has been pretty consistent with his calls for self-determination.

“I am not an anti-vac person,” he said, earlier this year. “In fact, I said I believe [the vaccines] are safe, and I encourage many people to take them. I just said that if you’re a young, healthy person, you don’t need it.”

Rogan’s also criticized the government-pharmaceutical industrial complex for “moving one step closer to dictatorship” on the whole coronavirus clamp-down, vaccine mandate, vaccine passport, technological contact tracing movement that’s sweeping the nation, nay, the globe.

“You can’t enter New York City unless you have your papers,” Rogan railed earlier this month. “You can’t go here unless you have that. You can’t get on a plane unless you do what I say.”

And in Fauci’s world, the response to that is: So? Which is to say, in Fauci’s world, the underlying but prevailing attitude is: We know best. 

These are dangerous times for America because the face-off is coming — individualism versus collectivism. Truly, the face-off is here. In one corner stands Rogan, waving a banner emblazoned with the words “Independent Thinking;” in the other stands Fauci, flapping a flag that blares the single word, “Obey.” 

If the vaccines work, if the face masks work, if the science is what the scientists have been saying for the past year-plus, what do the face-mask wearing and vaccinated have to fear? And if they don’t work, meaning, if they don’t put a stop to the spread of the coronavirus and the variants, which truly is what the data show, then the bureaucrats need to stop lying. Americans aren’t lab rats. American children aren’t guinea pigs. American citizens are thinking, rational, independent individuals with the God-given right to guide their own health care choices, as well as those for their own children.

Rogan is right. Following Fauci, especially blindly, is folly. Time for more American citizens to stand up and say enough’s enough. Freedom and individualism are far too precious to let go to life-long bureaucrats and their friends in the global community.

The knockout round for “God-given” cannot come from the likes of a coronavirus.

GoDaddy cuts service from Texas pro-life group’s website used to report violators of abortion law

Web hosting provider GoDaddy cut service to a website belonging to the pro-life group Texas Right to Life, telling the group late Thursday it had 24 hours to find new hosting services for its whistleblower tip website, prolifewhistleblower.com.

The group built the website to solicit anonymous tips on people who break a new Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The Supreme Court declined this week to block the law from taking effect.

What is the background?

As Texas Right to Life noted on its online tip website, the Texas law is unique:

The Texas Heartbeat Act is unique because it calls upon private citizens to hold abortion providers and their enablers accountable. Any person can sue any abortion provider who kills an unborn child after six weeks of gestation—and any person can sue anyone who aids or abets these illegal abortions. All of these individuals must pay damages to the person who sued them of at least $10,000 for each illegal abortion that they perform or assist.

In response, social media activists flooded the website with fake tips, the New York Times reported. When that failed to take down the website, Gizmodo’s Shoshana Wodinsky suggested activists target the host of the website, GoDaddy.

“Unfortunately, overloading the site with pictures of everyone’s favorite ogre wasn’t enough to knock it from the web, nor were the multiple denial-of-service attacks that slammed the site on the eve before the bill was set to go into action,” Wodinsky wrote. “But there is another route people can take: pleading with the site’s hosting provider.“

And that is exactly what happened.

What did GoDaddy say?

The web hosting company told the New York Times it had given Texas Right to Life 24 hours to find a new web hosting provider, alleging the pro-life advocacy group had violated GoDaddy’s terms of service.

“We have informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have 24 hours to move to another provider for violating our terms of service,” Dan Race, a GoDaddy spokesman, said late Thursday.

Specifically, GoDaddy said the website violated section 5.2 of its terms of service, which reads:

You will not collect or harvest (or permit anyone else to collect or harvest) any User Content (as defined below) or any non-public or personally identifiable information about another User or any other person or entity without their express prior written consent.

Despite GoDaddy’s decision, the whistleblower tip website is still live as of Saturday morning.

The website, however, is now being hosted by Epik, another web hosting service, according to registration information for prolifewhistleblower.com.

Weak Jobs Report Could Cool Fed’s Tapering Plans

Friday’s lackluster non-farm payrolls report, which showed American employers adding far fewer jobs in August than expected, is likely to cool enthusiasm among Federal Reserve policymakers for a quick roll-back of stimulus, some experts believe.

The Labor Department’s jobs report, released Sept. 3, shows that non-farm payroll employment rose by 235,000 in August, down from an upwardly revised 1.05 million jobs added in July and far below the FactSet-provided consensus forecasts of 750,000.

“While revisions were favorable, it’s a big surprise and very disappointing,” economist Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College, Cambridge University, said on Twitter. “Some will point to the #DeltaVariant impact. Others will add the malfunctioning of the labor market in matching workers to #jobs. Look for more talk of stagflationary winds,” he added, referring to a scenario in which growth slows while inflation remains stubbornly high.

The disappointing jobs report is a major data point for investors fixated on clues for when the Federal Reserve will initiate the much-anticipated rollback of its massive $120 billion in monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage securities, one of the crisis support measures the central bank deployed last year to help lift the economy from the pandemic recession.

Some experts argue the weak print in Friday’s non-farm payrolls data weakens the case that enough progress has been made in the labor market recovery and is likely to draw out the timeline for a Fed decision on trimming asset purchases, known as tapering.

“This latest employment snapshot interrupts the process of substantial further progress as called for by the Federal Reserve as it considers dialing back on boosting the economy,” Bankrate senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.

“The immediate question for the central bank is when to begin dialing back on monthly asset purchases as a prelude to an eventual increase in benchmark interest rates.”

“This jobs report appears to give Federal Reserve officials some more time to decide or begin,” Hamrick added.

The labor market is the key touchstone for the Fed, with Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell hinting at the Jackson Hole Symposium last week that reaching full employment was a pre-requisite for the central bank to start tapering asset purchases.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, on July 15, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Fed’s bond-buying program, along with dropping the benchmark interest rate to near zero, has led to a sharp expansion of the money supply, boosting the economic recovery, buoying markets, and contributing to inflationary pressures.

Speaking at the Jackson Hole symposium last week, Powell acknowledged a “sharp run-up in inflation,” though pointed to signs that upward price pressures were moderating.

At the same time, he struck a dovish tone, saying the central bank would continue buying bonds at the current pace until “we see substantial further progress” toward the Fed’s dual goals of price stability and maximum employment. While Powell said the “substantial further progress” test had been met for inflation and there had been “clear progress” toward the maximum employment objective, the Fed chief expressed concern around labor market recovery in the face of rising CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus infections.

Powell said that if further signs confirm the strength of the labor market recovery, this could make it “appropriate to start reducing the pace of asset purchases this year,” with some analysts predicting a possible announcement as soon as during the Fed’s next policy meeting over Sept. 21–22.

Friday’s disappointing jobs report has now prompted a revaluation of tapering expectations.

Wells Fargo analysts wrote in a note (pdf) that the downbeat non-farm payrolls number means the door is “fully closed” on a September taper announcement.

“It strikes us as highly unlikely the FOMC will announce a taper of its asset purchases at its September 21–22 meeting. Today’s miss on nonfarm payroll growth will disappoint top Fed officials who have signaled that it would take a couple more reports of 500K–1M jobs per month in order for ‘substantial further progress’ to be achieved,” they wrote.

“However, not all is lost. The monthly job numbers have been very volatile throughout the re-opening process, and it is quite possible August’s miss will be offset by stronger numbers in September,” they added, predicting that Fed officials will announce a taper at their December 14–15 meeting.

Another factor of possible concern to Fed officials is that Friday’s non-farm payrolls report showed unemployment rising for black workers, teenagers, and those with some college or an associate degree.

While the national unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in August from 5.4 percent in July, the decline in unemployment was not universal across all groups surveyed for the report. From July to August, the unemployment rate rose for blacks (from 8.2 percent to 8.8 percent), teenagers aged 16–19 (from 9.6 percent to 11.2 percent), and those with some college or an associate degree (from 5.0 percent to 5.1 percent), according to the report’s more granular breakdown.

While it’s normal for unemployment rates among all groups to see upward reversals amid a broader down trend, some economists expressed concern about the latest figures.

“The rise in Black unemployment in August is certainly troubling, considering their unemployment rates were already much higher than any other group,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on Twitter.

The uptick in black unemployment challenges the Federal Reserve’s goal that its “maximum employment” objective also be “broad and inclusive.” The figure creates tough optics for the Fed as it considers when to pull back on stimulus.

Donald Trump Says Biden Is Doing So Bad, Foreign Leaders Are Calling Him to Complain

I think it’s fair to say that President Joe Biden has already eclipsed former President Jimmy Carter as the worst U.S. president in modern history.

Biden has presided over America’s most crushing, consequential and, above all, preventable defeat in any of our lifetimes.

Moreover, as the dust begins to settle on the fiasco, the entire world has become cognizant of the lasting damage this stumbling, bumbling president has inflicted upon our once great nation.

In an interview with Breitbart News last week, former President Donald Trump said he’s received calls from foreign leaders who are horrified by Biden’s disastrous execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“They can’t believe it. Just like you can’t believe it. Just like any sane, rational person can’t believe it,” Trump said. “We were going to get out — but we were going to get out with dignity and with honor. We were going to get out with all of the people. And we were going to take all of the equipment.”

Breitbart asked Trump if he would prefer to run against Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. Referring to Biden’s now obvious cognitive decline, Trump said “there’s something wrong” with him.

“Biden is not an old man, by the way, but there’s something wrong. But he is not an old man — he’s going to be 79; that is not old. … But something is wrong. Something is going wrong there. I don’t like to predict that far forward. It’s such a long time, and I don’t know — things are happening left and right.”

Although the Biden administration and the establishment media have tried hard to conceal the president’s diminishing mental acuity, it’s become too obvious to hide.

Biden’s approval numbers had begun to fall even before his misadventures in Afghanistan. The border crisis, inflation rates we hadn’t seen in decades, the spike in energy prices and his handling of the pandemic had already begun to take their toll.

It was his utter failure in Afghanistan, however, that put him in negative territory. His net disapproval rating currently sits at 4.1 percent, according to Real Clear Politics — 45.2 percent of Americans approve of his performance, while 49.3 percent disapprove.

Breitbart asked Trump about Biden’s slowness to take calls from foreign leaders following the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15. It reportedly took over 24 hours for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to finally reach him.

“I would imagine Biden was not in a mood to take phone calls at that point because he was getting hammered,” Trump replied.

Trump also had harsh words for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the presidential palace amid the Taliban takeover, fearing a grisly death at the hands of the terrorists.

“I’ve always said Ghani was a crook and Ghani had total control over the U.S. Senate and, to a lesser extent, the House. That was his power. Once it became obvious we were leaving, I always said he would leave just prior to us, and I also said probably he’d take whatever he could take, and he took a lot of money. But Ghani was a total crook.”

Breitbart’s interview with Trump was conducted before explosive reports emerged about a July 23 phone call between Biden and Ghani.

According to a transcript and audio recording of the call, Biden urged Ghani — in what sounded dangerously like a quid pro quo — to convince the media that the Taliban was losing its fight for Afghanistan.

“There is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture,” Biden allegedly told Ghani.

During the Breitbart interview, Trump also explained why he believes the Afghan army surrendered so quickly to the Taliban.

“The soldiers were among the highest-paid soldiers in the world. You know who paid them? The U.S. taxpayer,” Trump said.

“When [former Secretary of Defense James] Mattis used to come up to me and say, ‘Sir, they’re fighting for the country,’ I would say, ‘No they’re fighting for a paycheck.’ … These were highly paid people, and that’s why they were doing it. Once the payments were going to stop, once we were leaving, they basically were going to stop fighting.”

Trump was asked about Harris’ decision to go ahead with a previously planned trip to Vietnam and other countries in the region in light of the crisis that had just erupted in Afghanistan.

His response? “It’s not a great time. She probably wants to get away. Who can blame her?”

“If you go by the polls, she hasn’t been doing too good,” Trump added. “She certainly hasn’t been doing too good.”

“If they gave her the border, which supposedly they did, that’s a disaster. … The border is a disaster. The border is looking great now because compared to Afghanistan, the border is being well run. But it’s the worst border we’ve ever had, and I gave you the best.”

Asked to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling forcing Biden to reinstate the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, Trump said it was “actually a favor to the Biden administration because it will make them look better.”

“It’s incredible. By us winning, it’s a favor to them because the news in the coming year won’t be as bad as it would have been otherwise.”

Trump has to be horrified by the reversal of nearly all of his administration’s policies and gains.

The phone calls he’s apparently received from foreign leaders are simply more evidence that the rest of the world is pretty horrified, too.

Joe Biden Says Life Does Not Begin At Conception In Refutation Of His Catholic Faith (Video)

“I respect those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception — I don’t agree but I respect that,” Biden said.

Joe Biden says that he does not believe that life begins at conception despite his Catholic faith. This comes amid outrage from the left due to the Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks.

Joe Biden, who claims to be a Catholic, just said that he doesn’t believe that life begins at conception during a press conference following a disappointing jobs report. When asked by a reporter what he would do to “protect abortion rights” in lieu of the Texas law that bans abortion after 6 weeks, Biden said he stands by Roe v. Wade and that the Department of Justice will move to force the Lone Star State to allow on-demand abortion, according to a report by the Gateway Pundit.

Biden said that the Texas abortion ban was “unAmerican,” adding that “I respect those who believe that life begins at the moment of conception — I don’t agree but I respect that.”

The new Texas law banning abortions after 6-weeks has caused widespread outrage among Democrats, liberal voters, and now, devil worshippers; who are arguing that the law violates their rights. In a September 2 Twitter post, the Satanic Temple said “Abortion laws in TX violate our religious rights and TST has taken legal action. If TX judges abide by the Constitution and legal precedent, then those who share our deeply held beliefs will be exempt from the state’s inappropriate efforts to restrict access to abortion services,” as National File reported.

Along with the devil worshippers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decried the Texas abortion ban, condemning the Supreme Court for their “cowardly decision to uphold a flagrantly unconstitutional assault on women’s rights and health.” Speaker Pelosi has also signaled her support for Congresswoman Judy Chu’s Women’s Health Protection Act to “enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America.”

Florida to Fine Any Individual or Business $5,000 Per Incident for Discriminating on Vaccination Status

Effective September 16th, the state of Florida will fine any individual or business that discriminates against vaccination status.

Florida is showing why its economy is growing and real estate is going up, up, up.

According to a local media outlet TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WJHG/WECP):

Florida will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools, and government agencies that require people to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

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Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill earlier this year that banned vaccine passports.  The fines will start on Sept. 16 if people are asked to show proof of a vaccine. Violators will have the chance to appeal but, once the fine is finalized, they will have 30 days to pay.

Two Top FDA Vax Researchers Quit After Biden Pushes Booster Shots

Not enough safety data.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Two of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, according to Endpoints News.
  • Doctors Marion Gruber and Phil Krause resigned after the Biden administration sidelined the FDA from major decision-making about Covid-19 vaccines.
  • The two could not support the White House’s expedited rollout of booster shots because the FDA has not determined whether booster shots are safe or effective.
  • Neither believed there was enough data to justify offering booster shots yet, notes The New York Times.
  • One former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA, notes Endpoints.
  • Dr. Gruber will leave in October, Dr. Krause in November.
ABOUT GRUBER & KRAUSE:
  • Dr. Gruber is director of FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review (OVRR) and 32-year veteran of the agency.
  • Dr. Krause is OVRR deputy director and has been at FDA for more than a decade.
  • FDA former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio on Twitter referred to doctors Gruber and Krause as “two giants” of the industry. “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service,” Luciana said.
  • “These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” said Former BARDA director Rick Bright. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”
WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
  • Associate professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health Jason L. Schwartz said, “This process has been the reverse of what we would normally expect in vaccine policy,” with the administration announcing plans based on a certain outcome before regulators can complete their review. “That has made it even more complicated and confusing for the public.”
BACKGROUND:
  • The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced on Aug 26 that it had found “Black substances…in syringes and a vial, with pink substances found in another syringe” within a lot of Moderna Inc.’s experimental mRNA vaccine, Reuters reports. 1.6 million vials were rejected.
COVID Vax Contaminated with ‘Foreign Material’ that ‘Reacts to Magnets’: Japanese Health Ministry

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.“

In Wake of SCOTUS Ruling, Another Conservative State’s Governor Makes a Major Pro-Life Announcement

The Supreme Court shocked the country on Wednesday when it allowed Texas’ new abortion law to go into effect while it is still being challenged in court.

The law bans all abortions of unborn children that take place after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which occurs at approximately six weeks into gestation, although exceptions can be made for medical emergencies.

Many pro-life activists have since pointed out that this law makes Texas the most pro-life state in America.

However, if one conservative governor is to be believed, the Lone Star State won’t hold that title for long.

“Following the Supreme Court’s decision to leave the pro-life TX law in place, I have directed the Unborn Child Advocate in my office to immediately review the new TX law and current South Dakota laws to make sure we have the strongest pro life laws on the books in SD,” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tweeted Thursday.

If Noem holds true to her word in topping the Texas law, it would be quite an achievement for the pro-life movement, especially given how unprecedented Texas’ law is.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down an attempt to stop the law from going into effect.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett all ruled in favor of allowing the law to go into effect.

Dissenting were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

One of the primary reasons the Supreme Court decided not to stop the law from going into effect was because the law does not rely on government enforcement.

Instead, the law calls upon private individuals to enforce it through lawsuits.

Citizens are allowed to sue anyone who facilitates or aids and abets an abortion for at least $10,000.

President Joe Biden described the law as a “bizarre scheme of outsourced enforcement” and on Thursday promised to “launch a whole-of-government effort” to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision.

However, if Noem gets her way, the president will have yet another pro-life law to take on.

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