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Arizona Sheriff Describes How the Border Has Changed Under Biden

The effort to curb illegal immigration in his Arizona border jurisdiction has deteriorated dramatically since President Joe Biden took office, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels says.

“When President Biden declared the southwest border a nonemergency, it stopped the physical barrier going up, it stopped all infrastructure completion, it stopped the subterraneal technology, it froze that construction on-site,” Dannels said in an interview with The Daily Signal. 

Dannels described “cables out of the ground, trenches, bridges not done, roadways not done.” The wall project is  “environmentally in disarray, it’s physically in disarray,” the border sheriff added.

“And what’s going to happen after our monsoon season, which is in July, it’s going to wipe out most of what’s even been done there,” Dannels said.

After being sworn in Jan. 20, Biden signed an executive order halting construction of President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

“It’s not reasonable to take tax dollars and stop a project we did,” Dannels said. 

“If President Biden doesn’t want to build one more inch of fence or physical barrier or subterraneal technology, lighting, that’s his choice. But you got to fix what you started. You got to finish what you started, or come up with a reasonable conclusion,” he told The Daily Signal.

The number of border crossings is only increasing. 

Approximately 178,622 illegal immigrants were detained along the border in April by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the highest number in over 20 years. 

Dannels said Cochise County residents are concerned about what is happening along the 83 miles of border that his jurisdiction shares with Mexico. 

“Our physical barrier that was being built by President Trump has been halted [at] the southwest border. The infrastructure, all that’s in disarray, [with] cables sticking out of the ground, holes in the fence,” Dannels said, adding: 

That’s just not a good way to reasonably conclude a project under a former administration. And then you look at—which I think is probably the worst—is the messaging here. What message have we sent to those that want to come into our country and harm us, from the cartels to those that promote drugs? … Look at 9/11. That’s a date we should never, ever forget, but unfortunately, time is forgetting that. And that’s sad.

Dannels, first elected Cochise sheriff as a Republican in 2012 and reelected in 2016 and 2020, has served in law enforcement for 36 years. 

That career began in 1984 after a stint in the Army. He rose through the ranks of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office to the position of deputy commander after working specialty assignments and leadership roles. The state’s governor recognized his efforts to improve highway and community safety, according to his official bio. 

Dannels said he has seen firsthand the effects of the crisis at the border. 

Now, “220 people a day are dying of drug overdoses,” the sheriff said, citing a national figure. 

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COVID Vaccines Are ‘Not a Safe Product’: Top Doc with Thousands of NLM Publications, Citations

“There are over 4,000 dead Americans… over 10,000 dead people in Europe that die on days one, two, and three after the vaccine.”

World-renowned Professor of Medicine and board-certified cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough says his refusal to recommend the COVID vaccine to his patients is “[b]ased on safety data.”

Dr. Peter McCullough

Dr. McCullough is a practicing internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at Texas A & M College of Medicine, Baylor Dallas campus. Having thousands of publications and citations in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) database, McCullough is founder and current president of the Cardiorenal Society of America, editor-in-chief of Cardiorenal Medicine, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, and senior associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple specialty journals and has served as member or chair of data safety monitoring boards of 24 randomized clinical trials, according to his resume.

His resume also reveals that since the outset of the COVID pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID disaster, publishing “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine (subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine). He has 40 peer-reviewed publications on the COVID infection.

Screenshot from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) website on June 1, 2021

On May 19, Dr. McCullough discussed the American people’s hesitancy toward getting vaccinated in light of the vaccine’s lethality during an interview with author John Leake in Dallas, Texas.

“The tension that Americans are feeling right now—as they’re trying to keep their jobs and go to work—is they know they can die of the vaccine. That’s the problem,” said McCullough.

“If the vaccine was like water—and you just got it, no side effects—who wouldn’t take it?”

Screenshot from Banned.Video taken June 1, 2021

McCullough was questioning why government leaders are pushing for a “needle in every arm” (here, here), even for COVID-recovered patients. And he balked at the fact that children under 18 in North Carolina no longer require parental consent to receive the vaccine.

“There are over 4,000 dead Americans,” emphasized Dr. McCullough, adding, “There [are] over 10,000 dead people in Europe that die on days one, two, and three after the vaccine.”

“Why are we pushing this in a way where people’s jobs and their education and their livelihood decide on a decision that’s potentially fatal?” He asked.

Citing blood clots, strokes, and immediate death, Dr. McCullough bases his refusal to vaccinate his patients on the data.

“Based on the safety data now, I can no longer recommend it. I can’t recommend it. It’s past all the thresholds to being a safe product. It’s not a safe product. None of them are,” he stated.

McCullough noted that the vaccines are not only deadly but are also now defunct because they only target the original COVID spike protein, which is now “extinct.” “Patients are getting vaccinated to something that doesn’t even exist anymore. That Wuhan spike protein is gone,” said Dr. McCullough, warning that mass vaccination might now counterproductively lead to the production of “superbugs.”

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Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

Also read: “100 Times More Vaccine Injuries Occur Than Are Reported: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services“; “First Man To Receive Pfizer’s COVID Vax Dies“

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Parents ‘furious’ at NYC private school over graphic sex ed videos shown to 1st graders

Parents of children at an elite private school in New York City are speaking out against videos on masturbation and gender identity being shown to their first-graders.

According to the New York Post, parents of first-grade students at Dalton School, which costs $55,000 a year, were outraged when they learned that “health and wellness” educator Justine Ang Fonte — who had previously led an explicit “porn literacy” workshop at another prestigious prep school in the city — had shown 6 year olds a cartoon video in which “touching themselves” for pleasure was explained. 

“Hey, how come sometimes my penis gets big sometimes and points in the air?” a boy in the cartoon inquires, which then prompts an explanation about erections. 

The boy nods his head and says that he touches his penis “because it feels good.”

A young girl in the cartoon video subsequently adds: “Sometimes, when I’m in my bath or when Mom puts me to bed, I like to touch my vulva too.”

The children were also reportedly taught lessons about giving “consent,” which included giving permission before their relative can hug them.

The health education lessons also included topics on “gender identity,” a nebulous phrase used by transgender activists to describe an internal feeling about their gender apart from their biological sex. 

Mothers who spoke with the New York Post about their disgust did so anonymously for fear of social repercussions. 

“Kids have no less than five classes on gender identity — this is pure indoctrination,” one Dalton mother told the NY Post. 

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Israeli scientists extend lives of mice by 23%, say same may be possible for humans

A new study in which scientists extended the lifespan of laboratory mice by 23% through a special protein may pave the way for humans to celebrate 120th birthdays, its authors said.

Israeli scientists have boosted the supply of SIRT6 protein – which “controls the rate of healthy aging,”but usually declines in the system with age – in 250 mice and achieved some incredible results. The life expectancy of their test subjects not only increased by 23%, but they were also more youthful and less susceptible to cancer compared to ordinary mice, a peer-reviewed paper, recently published in the Nature Communications journal, has revealed.

“The changes we saw in mice may be translatable to humans, and if so that would be exciting,” Prof. Haim Cohen of Bar-Ilan University, who spearheaded the research, told the Times of Israel newspaper.

If humans receive an equivalent protein boost their average life expectancy could reach almost 120 years, he said. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN estimated the average life expectancy was 72.6 years.

Cohen’s lab is currently looking for ways to safely increase the levels of SIRT6 protein in people. The mice were genetically modified, but humans would require drugs to achieve the same effect.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce warns worker shortage getting worse

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a new plan to address the ‘crisis’ shortage of workers that is says it holding back economic recovery from the pandemic.

The Chamber on Tuesday unveiled its ‘America Works’ program to mobilize government and industry resources to boost the number of qualified job seekers across the country.

‘This is Operation Warp Speed for jobs,’ Suzanne Clark, the Chamber’s president and CEO, told Axios. ‘As we stand on the cusp of what could be a great American resurgence, a worker shortage is holding back job creators across the country.’ 

The Chamber says that there are now just 1.4 workers available for each new opening, down from 4 in 2012, as a huge wave of Millennials was hitting the workforce, and half the 2.8 average over the past 20 years.  

The Chamber says that there are now just 1.4 workers available for each new opening
In May, the Chamber surveyed state and local chambers of commerce leaders about workforce challenges in their area, with 90% citing lack of workers as the main challenge

The worker shortage is perplexing because some 8 million fewer Americans are still out of work after their jobs were eliminated in the pandemic, suggesting that many may have dropped out of the workforce.

Republicans have blamed federal supplements to unemployment benefits as overly lavish, saying workers have little incentive to seek work. 

Most Republican governors are now rejecting the extra $300 monthly federal supplement to state unemployment aid. 

Others blame mass workforce dislocation from the pandemic, pointing out that many Americans moved or sought to switch industries during the chaos.

According to the Chamber, the worker shortage is most dire in the government sector, including public education, with just 0.16 workers available per opening.

Private schools and health services are also hard-hit, with a worker availability ratio of just 0.88, while professional and business services also have fewer workers available than there are jobs, according to the Chamber.

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Rand Paul Has Won Every Single Round Against Fauci

Time has proven Rand Paul had his thumb on the pulse of the science of the virus, and understood the unintended consequences of government interventions better than public health officials.

With most sporting events canceled for much of the past year, audiences have tuned into a new kind of sparring to fill the void: political debates. And two opponents have quickly risen to the top of their weight classes—Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The two have paired off for numerous rounds in a feud that’s representative of the one the rest of the country has been having—how should the government respond to the coronavirus.

In each of these exchanges, the mainstream media and many on the left have rushed to condemn Rand for his views and back Fauci’s various stances. But with hindsight on our side, we can now look back on these debates and determine which of their perspectives history has proven correct.

Here’s a look back at some of their most memorable moments in the ring.

Last summer, Rand Paul outraged the left by simply stating that classrooms should remain open to public school students.

“There’s a great deal of evidence that’s actually good—good evidence—that kids aren’t transmitting this—it’s rare—and that kids are staying healthy, and that yes we can open our schools,” he said in a committee hearing.

Fauci vehemently disagreed, alleging that children could spread the disease as easily as adults and advocating federal regulations around reopening schools.

But a mere six months later, Fauci was singing Rand’s tune—walking back his earlier comments.

“If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all,” Fauci stated. “Not like one would have suspected.”

Well, Rand Paul suspected.

To be clear, the science didn’t change over those six months. The politics did. Data always showed it was relatively safe to send kids to school.

In March, the two doctors duked it out again, this time over the question of whether or not Americans should continue to wear masks post-vaccination.

“You’re telling everyone to wear a mask,” Paul said. “If we’re not spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater? You have the vaccine and you’re wearing two masks, isn’t that theater?”

“Here we go again with the theater,” Fauci responded.

Yet the official narrative on masking post-vaccines changed only a couple days later as politicians realized their security theater was discouraging Americans from taking the vaccine.

In a video, Fauci all but admitted his mask mandates were for show stating, “I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at schools and universities across Florida.

DeSantis, a Republican, signed the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” on Tuesday morning in Jacksonville, saying that in schools, “girls are going to play girls’ sports, and boys are going to play boys’ sports.”

The Florida state Legislature passed a measure in April that prevents transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, saying that it would be unfair and argued that biological males possess significant physical advantages over females.

“We believe in the state of Florida protecting the fairness and integrity of women’s athletics,” said DeSantis in Jacksonville alongside several female athletes at the Trinity Christian Academy.

State Sen. Kelli Stargel, a Republican who sponsored the legislation, noted that “we all know that men are stronger than women.”

“I’ve always heard as a kid, ‘You run like a girl,’” she said, referring to a video showing Selina Soule, a Connecticut track athlete who filed a lawsuit over biologically male transgender athletes competing in high school girls’ sports.

“And when you’re looking at that video,” Stargel said, “it’s evident the woman, the transgender woman who competed, or self-identified woman, ran very differently than the others in the competition. It’s physiologically different. Men are stronger, they have bigger lung capacity, stronger muscles.”

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Former FDA Chief Says ‘Lab Leaks Happen All the Time’ Amid Probe Into COVID Origins

Last week, US President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and to report their findings to him within 90 days.

Accidental lab leaks happen “all the time,” former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said.

“It’s important to understand what the possibility is that this came out of a lab so we can focus more international attention on trying to get better inventories around these labs, what they’re doing, better security, make sure they’re properly built,” Gottlieb told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday amid reports that an accident occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

According to Gottlieb, China is able to provide “exculpatory” evidence proving that COVID did not leak from a lab, but has so far refused to do so. 

He also said that lab security is generally weak in countries around the world: “These kinds of lab leaks happen all the time, actually,” he said.

“Even here in the United States, we’ve had mishaps, and in China, the last six known outbreaks of SARS-1 have been out of labs, including the last known outbreak, which was a pretty extensive outbreak that China initially wouldn’t disclose that it came out of a lab.”

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Washington Post Becomes Latest Media Outlet to Walk Back “Debunked Conspiracy Theory” Wuhan Lab Leak Coverage

The Washington Post has become the latest media outlet to reverse its earlier insistence that the Wuhan lab leak theory was a “debunked conspiracy theory.”

The newspaper published an article in February 2020 by Paulina Firozi labeling the explanation a “debunked conspiracy theory” but has now been forced to issue a retraction.

“Earlier versions of this story and its headline inaccurately characterized comments by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) regarding the origins of the coronavirus,” states the retraction. “The term “debunked” and the Post’s use of “conspiracy theory” have been removed because, then as now, there was no determination about the origins of the virus.”

The correction was made after independent journalist Michael Tracey “reported that journalist @paulina_milla had flagrantly mischaracterized a key expert she quoted in the article.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis: Cruise Lines Not Immune From Vaccine Passport Ban

The governor of the Sunshine State vows to enforce the state’s law on vaccine passports. One America’s Taylor Tinsley has the latest.

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