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One guy cost taxpayers $550 million
One contracting officer for USAID (good riddance), has been convicted of accepting bribes to push contracts worth $550 million to specific businesses. The scheme spanned a decade and was tied to at least 14 USAID contracts that cost U.S. taxpayers over $550 million, according to the statement. 57-year-old Roderick Watson of Woodstock, Maryland, admitted to bribery… Continue reading
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The FDA hates babies
Yep, they’ve approved another one for newborns. This one for RSV. And it’s got an over 11% adverse reaction rate. FDA Greenlights Merck’s RSV Shot for Newborns — Clinical Trials Showed 11.71% Rate of Serious Adverse Events, Including Death The clinical trial results posted on the government website http://ClinicalTrials.gov included serious neurological adverse reactions that… Continue reading
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Another windfarm project gone and good riddance
A French windmill company has bowed out of the game now the the Biden bucks (aka taxpayer money) for destroying the environment using windmills has dried up. In a filing published Tuesday, France-based EDF Renewables requested that New Jersey state regulators cancel an existing power supply contract related to its Atlantic Shores 1 wind project, a… Continue reading
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These folks put illegals over the rights of citizens
The guy FAFO’d during the BLM riots but sued and won. So that gives you an idea about him. The woman is basically a professional protestor—been doing it since the 1980s. And they paint themselves as being morally superior. No empathy or care for the person in front of them. Their ideology trumps the cares… Continue reading
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Since when is a union also a ‘grassroots’ organization?
Saturday the 14th is gonna be interesting. A bunch of well-paid (by our tax dollars) NGOs are going to stage a nation-wide protest called ‘No Kings’. Because apparently they think that Trump thinks he’s a king or something. Even though the date and the parade are to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army… Continue reading
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Adding another shot to the childhood schedule
As if there aren’t enough already. The FDA just approved yet another shot to be given to babies. Of course there wasn’t a placebo trial, the new shot (which requires four doses, BTW) was compared to another shot for the same thing (Invasive meningococcal disease) that is being given to older children. And even though… Continue reading
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SCOTUS–Discrimination is discrimination
In a totally surprising ruling by the US Supreme Court, they removed the ‘higher bar’ of proof of discrimination if someone is in in the ‘majority’. A heterosexual woman was demoted, a position she had applied for was filled by a lesbian with lesser qualifications, and her previous position was given to a gay man.… Continue reading
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