Volume 1674
Did you know……
- According to Rebel News, the Canadian Border Services Agency recently fired one of its agents because he refused to play along with the health protocols imposed on international travelers arriving in Canada. He had posted a video on social media educating people on how to legally bypass the ArriveCAN app, quarantine, and testing requirements. He now faces criminal charges.
- According to Epoch, this fall the Eiffel Tower in Paris will go dark early to save power amid the worst energy crisis to hit the Europe in almost half a century.
- Epoch reports that members of the Air Force have been grounded for refusing to take a COVID-19 shot even after a court order ruling against such actions. A former space force commander stated that there are over 700 pilots potentially on the chopping block right now for their refusal to take the shot, and no Republicans are willing to engage issues related to COVID.
- According to Epoch, on September 16, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled in favor of a Texas law that seeks to rein in the power of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to censoring free speech.
- Epoch reports that a busload of illegal migrants of men, women, and children, including newborns, mostly hailing from Venezuela and Nicaragua arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Washington, early on Sept. 17, while another wave of buses also arrived in New York City. Also, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has sent two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, but within 48 hours the governor of Massachusetts had the migrants taken to an army base.
- According to Epoch, Egypt said it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through the Suez Canal, and it will add 15 percent to the fees for tankers carrying oil and petroleum products, and 10 percent for dry bulk carriers and cruise ships.
- Federal law enforcement has issued a warning to the public after police seized thousands of “rainbow fentanyl” pills, a brightly colored version of the highly toxic synthetic opioid, which authorities worry could be targeting children. At the end of August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Port Director wrote on Twitter that Arizona border agents had seized 6.5 pounds of methamphetamine, almost 186,000 blue fentanyl pills, and 47,000 rainbow-colored pills from a floor compartment of a vehicle at the port of Nogalez. Rainbow fentanyl resembles hard candy, or in some cases, sidewalk chalk.
- Epoch reports that a museum on Grand Bahama Island is showcasing treasured artifacts retrieved from a 17th-century Spanish shipwreck in a first-ever, debut display, which includes coins, porcelain, and jewelry which were once destined to wind up in the hands of knights or aristocrats. The two-deck, 891-ton Spanish galleon disappeared off the northern islands on Jan. 4, 1656, after colliding with its fleet flagship, then striking a reef and sinking.
- Epoch reports that a Canadian legal advocacy organization is challenging the narrative by governments, media, and medical associations that Canada’s response to the COVID-19 was successful, even though there is no reference to the “excess deaths” caused by Canada’s strategy that has been “among the most stringent and sustained lockdown policies in the world.”
- Epoch - The price of lithium carbonate, the key material used to make electric car batteries, has continued to skyrocket, tripling in the past year. The valuable mineral is mainly processed in communist China, which has a monopoly on the battery market.
- Epoch reports a Florida-based U.S. District Judge appointed a senior Brooklyn federal judge to serve as special master to independently review documents the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate.
- Former President Donald Trump revealed Monday that he has returned to his Mar-a-Lago property while decrying the FBI’s raid targeting the resort last month. He stated that the residence “was ‘ransacked,’ and in far different condition than the way he left it.
- According to Epoch, the State of Virginia has released new guidelines where public schools cannot affirm a student’s gender without parents’ written requests. In addition, bathroom and locker room use is to be based on students’ sex, defined as the biological sex at birth. Student sports participation should be sex-based as well unless federal laws require otherwise.
- Epoch Times reports that a North Yorkshire couple exhumed a small but precious cache of old, glistening English gold just beneath the floorboards and concrete of their home, during a kitchen reno. Among other things the find consisted of a small container, no larger than a Coke can, filled to the brim with 260 gold coins dating from as early as King James I to as late as the reign of King George.
- According to Epoch, Yeshiva University announced it will suspend all campus club activities in its latest attempt to resist a Sept. 14 Supreme Court ruling that says it must recognize LGBT group.
- According to Epoch, Mike Lindell, The Pillow Man, was picking up food at a fast food chain drive-through when three cars driven by federal agents blocked him over the voter fraud allegations he has voiced, and later seized his cell phone despite his vocal protests.
- A federal judge has temporarily restrained a Texas organization involved in the documentary “2000 Mules” from accessing any more of Konnech computers and ordered it to provide information on how it was able to tap into the company’s network. Konnech is a Michigan-based elections logistics company.
- Epoch reports that Hoverlink Ontario Inc. announced that they have entered the final stage of approval to introduce a high-speed hovercraft service to the Golden Horseshoe, the first of its kind in North America. Plans are that the hovercraft service will travel across Lake Ontario between Ontario Place in downtown Toronto and Port Weller in St. Catharines, Ont.
- AP News reports that last August, a federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages after finding a Democratic-aligned super PAC defamed him in a TV ad recounting sexual misconduct accusations during his failed 2017 U.S. Senate bid in Alabama.
- VOA/AFP reports that satellite monitoring shows the number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon to be 75,592 fires from January 1 to September 18 this year, already higher than the 75,090 detected last year, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE.
- Fox New reports that everal current and former White House and administration officials expressed their increasing frustration with the on-air coverage of Fox News reporter Bill Melugin who reports from the southern border and the crises facing illegal immigrants trying to get into the United States.
- According to The Guardian, a resident of Hong Kong was arrested on charges of sedition on Monday evening for playing the British national anthem on his harmonica and the Hong Kong song outside the British consulate in Hong Kong during the televised version of the Queen’s funeral.
- Fox News reports that hurricane Fiona continues to head north Wednesday away from the Turks and Caicos and has intensified into a category 4 hurricane in the southwestern Atlantic. The powerful storm could strengthen even further as it tracks toward Bermuda over the next two days, prompting the issuance of a Hurricane Watch for the British island territory. The hurricane had battered the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday as high winds and heavy rain spread across the islands after the hurricane had already turned deadly in Puerto Rico and the Dominion Republic.
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