Biden Vows U.S. Will ‘End’ Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline if Ukraine Invaded by Russia

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President Biden vowed Monday during a joint news conference with Germany’s chancellor that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline “will be no longer” if Russia invades Ukraine.

Biden promised fuel would be prevented from flowing directly to Germany from Russia through the newly constructed Baltic Sea pipeline — before German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave a noticeably less enthusiastic endorsement of the idea.

“If Russia invades — that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine, again — then there will be there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2,” the president said in the White House East Room. “We will bring an end to it.”

Scholz, standing next to Biden, gave a verbose answer in German to the same question from Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal, who pointed out that Scholz did not specifically mention the pipeline. (Read more from “Biden Vows U.S. Will ‘End’ Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline if Ukraine Invaded by Russia” HERE)

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Ex-Gov. Cuomo Says He Regrets Quitting Over Sexual-Harassment Scandal

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed regret for resigning over the sexual harassment allegations against him — and defiantly claimed that he’s been “vindicated” by the court of public opinion, according to a report Monday.

In an interview last week, Cuomo said that if he were able to relive events, he wouldn’t quit the way he did while facing an all-but-certain impeachment last year, Bloomberg News said.

“I never resigned because I said I did something wrong. I said, I’m resigning because I don’t want to be a distraction,” Cuomo said.

Cuomo, 64, also suggested that he’d been exonerated by five district attorneys who declined to prosecute him over various accusations — including allegedly groping an aide in Albany’s Executive Mansion — even though four of the prosecutors said they found his accusers “credible.”

“It turns out in a remarkably short period of time that it did become all bogus. Eleven became zero,” Cuomo said. (Read more from “Ex-Gov. Cuomo Says He Regrets Quitting Over Sexual-Harassment Scandal” HERE)

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Disturbing: Teacher Caught on Video Yelling at Student for Supporting His Cop Dad With Thin Blue Line Mask

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A California substitute teacher was caught on video berating a student over the “Thin Blue Line” face mask the eighth-grader was wearing. The 13-year-old said he wears the Thin Blue Line mask to honor his police officer father.

The intense confrontation happened on Monday at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, California. That’s where the unnamed substitute teacher got into a shouting match about Lucas Lillar’s Thin Blue Line mask during a math class.

Students in the class recorded video of the teacher arguing with the teen over the face mask.

The teacher is seen in the video telling the student that his Thin Blue Line mask that pays homage to law enforcement is “not American.”

“That’s not the American flag that’s the new confederacy flag,” the teacher loudly proclaims.

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Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million Deal With Commitment to ‘No Censorship’

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Video-hosting platform Rumble is offering famed podcaster Joe Rogan a $100 million deal to leave Spotify and appear exclusively on the upstart YouTube competitor. The offer arrives amid Rogan facing calls from the cancel culture mob to remove him from Spotify over alleged misinformation regarding the Chinese coronavirus, and more recently, his past usage of the N-word during podcast episodes.

“We stand with you, your guests, and your legion of fans in desire for real conversation. So we’d like to offer you 100 million reasons to make the world a better place,” Rumble said in a statement on Monday.

“How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both old and new, with no censorship, for 100 million bucks over four years?” the video-sharing platform added in its statement. “This is our chance to save the world. And yes, this is totally legit.”

Spotify already has a $100 million exclusive deal with the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The deal, however, includes the censorship of certain episodes of Rogan’s podcast.

Rogan has been under attack ever since hosting two guests — Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone — on his podcast, who “have an opinion that’s different from the mainstream narrative” regarding coronavirus-related issues, he said. (Read more from “Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million Deal With Commitment to ‘No Censorship’” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell Prosecutors Demand Her Retrial Request Be Public

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Prosecutors in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell told the judge on Friday that her request for a retrial must be made public.

“The government respectfully submits that the defendant has not justified her sealing request and, accordingly, the defense motion and its exhibits should be publicly docketed,” prosecutors told Manhattan federal court judge Alison Nathan.

Maxwell filed the request for a new trial under seal last month.

The former girlfriend of late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in December on five of six counts, including transportation of a minor with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity and the most serious charge against her, sex trafficking of a minor.

Now, however, Maxwell’s defense team is requesting a new trial after a juror said in media interviews that he was personally a victim of child sexual abuse, a fact he may not have disclosed during jury selection. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell Prosecutors Demand Her Retrial Request Be Public” HERE)

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Trump Reveals the First Thing He Would Do if He Became President Again

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In an interview last week, former President Donald Trump said that the first executive action he would take if he were president again would be to complete the wall at the southern border.

A report from the The Epoch Times noted that the former president made the remark on EpochTV’s “Kash’s Corner” on Jan. 31. The interview will air in its entirety this week. When asked what he would do if he took office again, Trump said that he would follow through with completing the border wall because it would enhance the nation’s security as well as send an image of strength to other world leaders, such as China’s Xi Jinping.

“First of all, the wall, even for him [Xi Jinping]” Trump answered. “You know why? Because when he sees millions of people pouring into our country, he loses respect for our country.”

“When him and Putin and Kim Jong Un and Iran’s leaders, when they’re watching millions of people walk into our country…they lose respect,” he added. (Read more from “Trump Reveals the First Thing He Would Do if He Became President Again” HERE)

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Ill Effects of Lockdowns Are Far Greater Than Any Benefits

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A new study from Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics supports what I and others have long maintained: Lockdowns do not work, and their economic, social, educational and psychological costs far outweigh any health benefits they might bring.

Early in the pandemic, epidemiological modelers predicted catastrophic casualties that could be averted only with stringent lockdown measures. In response, nearly every country around the world imposed lockdown measures by the end of March 2020. Yet little evidence existed to support such actions, and the modeling studies were fatally flawed.

Now the Hopkins literature review and meta-analysis, by professors Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung and Steve Hanke, finds that lockdowns — “defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, nonpharmaceutical intervention (NPI)” such as school and business closures and limitations on movement and travel — “had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.” . . .

The authors reviewed thousands of studies and culled 34 that had reliable and sufficiently relevant data to review. The results were mixed: Several studies found no statistically significant effect of lockdowns on mortality; other studies found a significant negative relationship between lockdowns and mortality; and others found a significant positive relationship between lockdowns and mortality — i.e., that lockdowns actually increased COVID-19 deaths from COVID-19.

When the authors performed a meta-analysis — a statistical technique that combines the results of multiple studies addressing the same question and uses the pooled data to draw conclusions — they found that lockdowns failed to show a large significant effect on COVID-19 mortality: “the effect is little to none.” (Read more from “Ill Effects of Lockdowns Are Far Greater Than Any Benefits” HERE)

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After Saying She’s Been Triple-Vaxxed, Comedian Falls and Fractures Skull

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Standup comedian Heather McDonald collapsed during a show in Tempe, Arizona, on Saturday night.

The 51-year-old star took to her Instagram story on the night of Feb. 5 to address fans from the hospital. . .

She then explained that she “passed out on stage.” . . .

The star’s reps told Phoenix’s NBC outlet that she “may have lost consciousness because of dehydration” and suffered a skull fracture from the fall. . .

Citing eyewitnesses, TMZ reports that at the top of the show, the comic told a joke about coronavirus vaccines and fell to the floor. According to the outlet, many thought the collapse was part of an act. (Read more from “After Saying She’s Been Triple-Vaxxed, Comedian Falls and Fractures Skull” HERE)

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The Biden Administration Is Preparing to Regulate Bitcoin

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The Biden administration is preparing to draft Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency regulations.

“The Biden administration is preparing to release an initial government-wide strategy for digital assets as soon as next month and task federal agencies with assessing the risks and opportunities that they pose,” Bloomberg reported.

President Joe Biden’s approach could potentially enable the entirety of the federal government’s administrative apparatus to regulate cryptocurrency under the guise of national security.

Bloomberg said, “The late-stage draft of the executive order details economic, regulatory and national security challenges posed by cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, the directive would also require other agencies to weigh in — carving out roles for everyone from the State Department to the Commerce Department.”

Globally, there are hundreds of millions of people who use cryptocurrency to store and grow their wealth and to make transactions. Largely, the appeal of cryptocurrency is that it is unregulated and not connected to global financial institutions. There are trillions of dollars invested in cryptocurrencies; this asset class was able to grow so rapidly and robustly precisely because there was minimal regulation restricting its growth and use. (Read more from “The Biden Administration Is Preparing to Regulate Bitcoin” HERE)

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What Happened to One Woman in the ‘Metaverse’ Proves Humanity Isn’t Ready for It…at All

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There are many reasons to avoid virtual reality. First, I think it’s a waste of time. Second, there are the injuries. You’ve probably seen the many, many videos of people running into walls, breaking their flatscreens, and outright eating it on the floor when playing this stuff. It’s entertaining for us to watch, sure—but now we have a new problem: gang rape. It’s not real gang rape, but virtual reality, like the real world, allegedly has sexual predators who attacked a woman within a minute of logging into the Meta’s Horizon Worlds. I’ll let you do the rest of the background research regarding this…world but three or four male avatars attacked this woman which prompted a personal boundary to be established so other users can be protected from this virtual…gang rape activity (via NY Post):

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is adding a feature to combat virtual-reality harassment days after a woman said she was “virtually gang raped” in the company’s metaverse.

The feature, called “personal boundary,” will prevent other users’ virtual avatars from “invading your avatar’s personal space,” the company formerly known as Facebook said in blog post on Friday.

The feature will be rolled out within Meta’s Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues virtual reality worlds starting on Friday.

“If someone tries to enter your Personal Boundary, the system will halt their forward movement as they reach the boundary,” Meta said. “We believe Personal Boundary is a powerful example of how VR has the potential to help people interact comfortably.”

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