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Americans told to avoid travel within Israel, U.S. troops and warships moved to positions in the Middle East, and a warning from President Biden of a “sooner than later” attack has Washington on edge over a possible Iranian retaliation strike on the ally country this weekend, a move that could trigger a regional war. Western… […]
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‘Permanent contraception procedures’ soared after Dobbs decision: Research
April 13th, 2024 
Awake Goy Rates of people seeking permanent contraception spiked after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, new research shows. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University looked at rates of tubal ligations and vasectomies among 18- to 30-year-olds between 2019 and 2022 using the TriNetX platform and compared them with 2022… […]
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No Comments »Dear Colleagues: We Must Revive Sound Science
March 27th, 2024 Awake Goy SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Subject: A call to repair two years of immense damage to science, with important current implications – an open letter Quick links: Your comments/remarks/feedback in response to this letter: web form, email List of academicians, scientists, medical practitioners who supported some or many of the various official Covid-19 measures: Electronic […]
Russia extends journalist Evan Gershkovich’s detention after nearly a year
March 26th, 2024 Awake Goy A Moscow court on Tuesday extended the pretrial detention for The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich until the end of June. After hearing from prosecutors, Gershkovich’s detention was extended until June 30, according to state-run news outlet TASS. Gershkovich has already been detained for almost a year following his March 29, 2023, arrest in… […]
Posted in International, policy Tags: after, detention, extends, gershkovich, journalist, nearly, rússia No Comments »Energy Department goes all in on clean form of on-demand energy embraced by fossil fuel industry
March 22nd, 2024 Awake Goy Advances in oil and gas drilling have cut costs for a form of clean power that could help replace fossil fuels, according to the Department of Energy. Now the agency is going all in on geothermal energy, which uses heat from deep within the Earth to produce largely pollution-free electricity. The agency projects that geothermal… […]
Major health bills fail to make cut amid competing priorities
March 22nd, 2024 Awake Goy Major bipartisan health bills, including changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry and hospital payment reforms, were excluded from the $1.2 trillion government funding bill after members failed to come to a last-minute agreement. Lawmakers and aides said they were close to a bipartisan, bicameral agreement, but there were ultimately too many people involved… […]
Speaker Johnson, GOP face crunch time on Ukraine
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy The House returns to Washington on Tuesday facing heightened urgency to move more military help for Ukraine but with no formal deadline — and no clear strategy — for getting it passed. The lower chamber is scheduled to be in session for only four days before a two-week holiday recess, and Kyiv’s supporters, including top Democrats… […]
Controversial mine project sues over EPA veto
March 16th, 2024 Awake Goy Presented by Panasonic — {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Company behind Pebble Mine project sues over EPA rejection The company behind the controversial Alaskan Pebble Mine project sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday for blocking the project last year. © AP Photo/Al Grillo In a statement… […]
Rachel Levine Plays the Race Card on Climate Change
March 3rd, 2024 Awake Goy The 2020s are like a South Park episode. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, earlier this month took time away from encouraging pre-adolescent children to explore their gender identities through the wonders of endocrine-disrupting pharmaceuticals to lecture the public about how climate change might be racist. In a video posted on X, Levine said, “Black Americans are […]
Skepticism over Ukraine aid pervasive at CPAC
February 25th, 2024 Awake Goy National Harbor, Md. — This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) underscored the clear divide among Republicans on aid to Ukraine, with speakers and attendees largely expressing their opposition to giving the nation more assistance. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for two years, but Democrats and some Republicans have been supportive of offering further… […]
Balloon intercepted over US likely related to a ‘hobby’: Officials
February 25th, 2024 Awake Goy The high-altitude balloon flying over the U.S. earlier that was intercepted earlier this week was likely a “hobby balloon,” officials said Saturday. The balloon, which flew at an altitude of over 40,000 feet over Utah, did not pose a security threat, the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) said in a statement to multiple outlets.… […]
Clyburn gives GOP a new nickname: ‘Groupies of Putin’
February 25th, 2024 Awake Goy House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) went after Republicans Saturday, branding the GOP with a new nickname: “Groupies of Putin.” Clyburn, who announced he would step down from leadership in 2024, argued Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his other GOP colleagues have only been doing the business of Russian President Vladimir Putin “at the behest… […]
‘Experts’ Continue to Spread Misinformation
February 17th, 2024 Awake Goy In a stunning turn of events, the CDC may be deciding to update its guidance to the year 2021. In February 2024. Not about masks, which unequivocally do not work to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, or any other respiratory virus for that matter. They, of course, won’t be acknowledging their many mistakes on Covid vaccines or school […]
The Great Reset Didn’t Work: The Case of EVs
February 16th, 2024 Awake Goy We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so.” When in March 2020, the world’s government decided to “shut down” the world’s economies and throttle any and all social activity, and deny kids schooling plus cancel worship services and holidays, there was no end to the warnings […]
Rational Policy Over Panic
February 15th, 2024 Awake Goy [Full PDF of report is available below] An Awkward Problem The world of international public health is in a precarious position. Current policy, resources, personal careers, and the very credibility of major organizations are aligned with the recent statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) that: Epidemics and pandemics of infectious diseases are occurring more […]
EU Farmers Rise Against the Climate Cult
February 10th, 2024 Awake Goy SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Many major arteries connecting Europe have been obstructed or brought to a standstill in recent days by a wave of protests by farmers against what they claim are overly burdensome environmental targets and unsustainable levels of bureacracy associated with EU and national farming regulations. The warning shots of this showdown […]
What Killed Informed Consent?
February 6th, 2024 Awake Goy [The following is a chapter from Dr. Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment.] Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body. Justice Benjamin Cardozo, Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital (1914) In the Blink of an Eye As my fingers […]
Bolton pushes US to strike Iran directly to ‘send a message’
February 3rd, 2024 Awake Goy Former national security adviser John Bolton urged the Biden administration to authorize strikes in Iran directly, so it can “send a message.” In an interview with CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, Bolton said the retaliatory strikes fired by the U.S. military on Friday were the “right thing to do” but also said he doesn’t “think it… […]
Johnson criticizes ‘excessive signaling’ as US begins strikes in Iraq, Syria
February 3rd, 2024 Awake Goy Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized the Biden administration for what he called a slow response to the attack on a U.S. base in Jordan that killed three American service members, as Capitol Hill reacted Friday night to the first set of retaliatory U.S. strikes on Iranian-linked militia groups in the Middle East. “The tragic deaths… […]
Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts
February 3rd, 2024 Awake Goy Ryan Samsel, one of the individuals who prosecutors accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted Friday on multiple felony counts, along with four co-defendants. Samsel was one of the first people to confront the police on Jan. 6 outside the Capitol, with prosecutors saying… […]
Your Tax Dollars for Davos
February 3rd, 2024 Awake Goy A few weeks ago, while watching the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum for updates on their coordinated strategy to promote Central Bank Digital Currencies and digital tyranny, something on my Twitter/X feed caught my attention. Amidst these events, Congressman Scott Perry introduced the “Defund Davos Act.” Initially, I was shocked to learn […]
The Legal Batteries That Supercharge the Bureaucratic State
January 30th, 2024 Awake Goy There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a nutshell) that courts must defer to the wisdom of the implied expertise of a government […]
The Loosening of Rules on Informed Consent
January 29th, 2024 Awake Goy On January 22, 2024, amendments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations (21 CFR 50) covering Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) were finalized and implemented. The amendments added a new section 50.22 that allows for exceptions to informed consent requirements for minimal risk research. While the addition of section 50.22 harmonizes FDA IRB regulations with […]
Alaska Republican hits Biden over pause on natural gas exports: ‘Makes no sense’
January 27th, 2024 Awake Goy Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) criticized President Biden for his decision to pause approvals of some natural gas export facilities, saying the announcement “makes no sense.” “Once again, they are letting the far left and John Kerry, can’t wait until he leaves the White House by the way, drive policies that make no sense and this… […]
Posted in European Union, News, policy Tags: Alaska, biden, exports, makes, natural, pause, Republican No Comments »Disease-X and Davos: This is Not the Way to Evaluate and Formulate Public Health Policy
January 26th, 2024 Awake Goy [Full PDF of report is available below] Private Interest and the Development of Pandemic Policy Public health messaging should provide accurate information so that the public and their leadership can formulate appropriate responses, weighed against society’s competing priorities. Planning for the future requires scarce resources to be concentrated on areas of greatest need and with […]
Federal Court Judge Pulls Canada Back from the Brink
January 26th, 2024 Awake Goy The Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful. The Trucker Convoy did not constitute a national emergency. So said a judge of the Federal Court on Tuesday. The decision may help to pull Canada back from the brink of authoritarian rule. The Federal Court decision contains four conclusions. Two prerequisites for invoking the […]
Science-Totalitarianism Now Threatens Liberalism
January 25th, 2024 Awake Goy Crucial amongst classical liberalism’s advantages is that it conforms to the principles of what Mark Pennington has called ‘robustness’ (Pennington 2010, p. 2). A policy, policy-making process, or policy-making institution is ‘robust’ when it takes account of two human imperfections: In the simplest terms, a policy or policy-making institution is robust when it remains beneficial […]
The DOJ Quietly Prosecutes the Covid Resistance
January 25th, 2024 Awake Goy SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL Midwives in New York and plastic surgeons in Utah didn’t close schools, shutter businesses, or add trillions of dollars to the national debt, yet they are the primary targets of the Biden DOJ’s Covid prosecution. Court documents reveal how the Department of Justice has dedicated hundreds of thousands of dollars […]
Russia says Kyiv shot down plane carrying Ukrainian POWs
January 24th, 2024 Awake Goy The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Wednesday that Kyiv shot down a transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war en route to a prisoner exchange. The ministry said the strike, which officials labeled a “terrorist attack,” killed all 74 people on board. “It was absolutely deliberate,” Russian lawmaker Andrey Kartapolov told state media. “They knew… […]
Posted in International, policy, russia, ukraine Tags: carrying, PLANE, rússia, ukrainian No Comments »Who Will Deliver Justice to Our Service Members?
January 23rd, 2024 Awake Goy SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL While Pfizer & Moderna were testing rats in their labs, our government had their own guinea pigs lining up for the largest biomedical experiment the world has ever seen, except these were not test animals. These were our United States service members–our men and women in uniform. And the test […]
