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COLUMBUS — Conservatives obtained a huge win in Ohio this afternoon when its state House of Representatives voted to overturn GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of H.B. No. 68 — a bill that would prohibit doctors from offering children cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries and prevent men who identify as women from competing in female sports. RELATED from Aubrey Gulick: Pope Francis Is Right. The World Should Ban Surrogacy. When DeWine vetoed the bill in late December‚ he argued that “many parents have told me that their child would be dead today if they had not received the treatment they received from an Ohio children’s hospital.” DeWine‚ alongside Democrats in the Legislature‚ claimed that signing the bill would mean that the state would be making medical decisions in lieu of “parents” and “medical experts.” He opted to instead sign an executive order that banned transgender surgeries for minors. The response from Ohio state legislators like Rep. Jenna Powell‚ who has been working to pass a bill to keep male athletes out of female sports since 2019‚ and Rep. Gary Click‚ who sponsored H.B. No. 68‚ was simple. They wanted a law that couldn’t change on the whim of the next governor. Click called the legislation “carefully curated and well-vetted” and said on Wednesday that there isn’t scientific evidence that offering minors the option to be permanently mutilated lowers suicide rates. “Ohio’s hospitals first began experimenting … in 2014‚” he said. “There was no epidemic of children committing suicide … prior to that date.” Additionally‚ there is certainly plenty of evidence that allowing men who identify as women to compete against real women doesn’t end well. The battle isn’t quite over because the Ohio Senate now has to follow suit when it votes on the issue on Jan. 24‚ but the news is certainly worth celebrating. That is especially true because Ohio did not exactly end 2023 as a bastion of conservative values. Not only did DeWine veto H.B. 68 in the last few days of the year‚ but Ohio voters also decided to enshrine abortion into the state’s Constitution back in November. Conservatives should certainly celebrate their wins. This article is an excerpt from The American Spectator’s Spectator P.M. newsletter. Subscribe today to read future letters from our staff! READ MORE from Aubrey Gulick: Biden’s Pro-Abortion Campaign Might Just Work A Girl Was Sexually Assaulted in the Metaverse. Does It Count? Snow White Changes Her Tune Under Pressure from Conservatives The post Ohio Could Be the Next State to Ban Transing the Kids appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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'Just by show of hands‚ who here is willing to admit that the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was indeed incorrectly reported by the mainstream media? Is there anybody here able to admit that that was incorrect reporting?' GOP presidential candidate asked reporters. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy held the leftist mainstream media’s feet to the fire Tuesday‚ asking members of the press to apologize for spewing misinformation about Trump-Russia collusion to the American people. “Just by show of hands‚ who here is willing to admit that the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was indeed incorrectly reported by the mainstream media. Is there anybody here able to admit that that was incorrect reporting?” Ramaswamy asked reporters at a recent campaign event. “It wouldn’t be really appropriate for us to answer your question‚” one reporter responded. 🚨 WOW 🚨Vivek FLIPS script on Reporters‚ leaving media STUNNED by simply asking:– 'Did you lie about Trump-Russia collusion?'[SILENCE]– 'Is Hunter Biden's laptop Russian disinformation?'[SILENCE]– 'Did COVID leak from the Wuhan lab?'[SILENCE]Just WATCH: pic.twitter.com/yZBCnCCN1M— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 10‚ 2024 “Why not? Why would that be inappropriate?” Ramaswamy questioned‚ adding‚ “I think what’s inappropriate is lying to the public.”Save 40% on DNA Force Plus NOW! Try it today and see why so many listeners have made it an essential part of their daily routine! Asked if the media’s misreporting of facts could technically be deemed a “lie‚” Ramaswamy said he believed “the public was lied to long after the media systematically still understood that this was the product of the Steele dossier.” “The Steele dossier was a piece of Russian disinformation provided by the Hillary Clinton campaign that was served up to the federal government as a basis for issuing a FISA warrant to then potentially infiltrate a member of the opposition party‚” he continued‚ concluding if President George W. Bush had done the same to John Kerry during the 2004 election it would have been a massive scandal that would have warranted impeachment. Ramaswamy also went on to ask if members of the media felt responsible for misreporting on the lab origins of Covid and their initial reporting that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinfo. “Does anyone here agree that the Hunter Biden laptop story as reported by the New York Post was indeed accurately reported and was not Russian Disinformation‚ but was in fact a factually owned laptop of Hunter Biden?” Ramaswamy asked. “I mean‚ you got to man. I mean you your paper reported it‚” he told a Post reporter. He went on to assert the media’s obfuscation of facts and censorship amounted to election interference in the 2020 election‚ and noted the same corporate censorship is trying to rear its head in 2024. “Unless we’re able to open and openly and transparently acknowledge the mistakes of the past without acknowledging the mistakes of the past‚ I think we are destined for an even more dangerous future. And I do not want to see a repeat of what happened in the 12 to 15 months leading up to January of 2021.” “As somebody who’s looking to lead this country‚ and hopefully‚ dare I say‚ reunite this country‚ I think it is critical‚ it is vital to the future of this country that we not repeat those same mistakes‚ and yet that’s exactly what I’m seeing play out in slow motion‚ hiding in plain sight.” The GOP candidate’s straightforwardness with the media shows why he’s still a force to be reckoned with in the dwindling Republican party presidential field. The globalists are increasing their attacks on Infowars and the stakes have never been higher! Please consider donating and visit InfowarsStore.com for merch‚ nutraceuticals and survival gear. Follow the author on X‚ Facebook‚ Gab‚ Minds‚ Truth Social and Gettr.

This is just the latest example of Engoron's political bias against Trump. Former President Donald Trump has been barred from making his own closing statements in the New York City civil trial against him‚ liberal judge Arthur Engoron ruled Wednesday. Trump had planned to deliver part of the closing statement himself in the fraud trial‚ which is his constitutional right. But Engoron told Trump’s attorneys in an email exchange that the former president would have had to limit his court statement to “what is permissible in a counsel’s closing argument‚ that is‚ commentary on the relevant‚ material facts that are in evidence‚ and application of the relevant law to those facts.”  Trump’s team did not agree to Engoron’s arbitrary terms. JUST IN: Emails between Trump’s legal team and Judge Engoron expose how Corrupt Engoron is and how he’s motivated by his hatred of President Trump. The crooked‚ communist NYC judge Arthur Engoron who is overseeing President Trump’s Civil Fraud trial in NYC just denied… pic.twitter.com/Pb6x5HIWOeIntroducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being.— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 10‚ 2024 CBS News suggested Engoron was just looking out for Trump’s “legal interest” by muzzling him from making a closing statement. It’s unusual for a defendant to speak during closing arguments‚ especially when they have lawyers working for them‚ according to former Manhattan prosecutor Diana Florence. She said the legal arguments in the court record are important for appeals‚ and a lawyer understands “the issues in the case” and wants “to set up the best appeal possible.”“Trump’s doing this for the court of public opinion and for the MAGA community‚ and that may not be consistent with what’s in his best legal interest in this particular case‚” Florence said. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $370 million in “damages” for claiming Trump inflated the value of numerous properties to obtain favorable bank loan terms. She also wants to ban Trump and his sons from operating any businesses in New York. This is just the latest in a long string of examples of Engoron’s political bias against Trump. Trump lambasted “runaway judge” Engoron’s “rigged” fraud trial in a video statement posted to Truth Social on Wednesday. No Jury‚ Judge Engoron Continues to Wage a Corrupt and Rigged Case Against Me! pic.twitter.com/tkeCaofXFr— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) January 10‚ 2024 Follow Jamie White on X | Truth | Gab | Gettr | Minds

Quarantine power has been used by despotic governments all over the world to round up political enemies Two years ago‚ attorney and Brownstone Fellow Bobbie Anne Flower Cox took note of the New York State executive order to permit the building and use of quarantine camps. The litigation against it is still in process. We might have supposed it was an outlying case. That‚ sadly‚ is not true.  It turns out that the first federal quarantine camp (not called that of course) constructed in one hundred years (since the Great War’s round up of Germans on US soil) was completed in January 2020 in Omaha‚ Nebraska. It was immediately used to house Americans kidnapped from their vacations from aboard the Diamond Princess cruise liner.  I first read about this in a July 26‚ 2021 article in the New York Times.  A shiny new federal quarantine facility in Omaha — the first constructed in the United States in more than a century — was finished in January 2020‚ just in time to receive 15 American passengers from the coronavirus-infested Diamond Princess cruise ship. It’s not a big facility but it was enough to give the whole idea a big kickoff. That happened immediately upon its opening. How long would this have taken to construct? Let’s say it was four or five months. That means it would have to be approved sometime around September 2019‚ when it is plausible that some US officials were made aware of a lab leak from the Wuhan lab. Figuring it was a bioweapon or something like it‚ and with “germ games” ongoing‚ the plan might have been to use this one and build more. Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. We don’t know for sure.  If that is true‚ it really does adjust the timeline. The Wuhan junket in which US and UK officials discovered from China’s lockdowns that this was an effective plan for disease control might have just been optics. The idea of quarantines and possibly lockdowns was already in the works. That’s speculation but plausible.  “Our state-of-the-art facilities include the 20-bed National Quarantine Unit‚ the nation’s only federal quarantine unit‚ and a six-bed simulated biocontainment unit for advanced experiential training – the National Biocontainment Training Center‚” says the website. “This high-fidelity simulation center includes a mock lab and autoclave.” There is this advertising video. The day before US lockdowns were announced at a Trump press conference‚ Esquire wrote a celebratory article on the facility. Headline: “Esquire was granted exclusive access to the nation’s only federal quarantine and biocontainment center in Nebraska. We met the people who work there‚ and they are as extraordinary—and as courageous—as you think they are.” The access was granted by whom? A September 2023 article says that the camp was authorized by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)‚ a division of the Department of Health and Human Services‚ which had also released the closest thing we have to a pandemic plan on March 13‚ 2020. So perhaps it was ASPR who commissioned this puff piece.  Having profiled all the scientists and nurses who work there‚ the Esquire article celebrates the heroism of the workers. The co-author of the article is Bronwen Dickey‚ who was doing a stint as a journalism fellow at Duke University‚ which had become a center of pandemic planning research with a stream of funding from the National Institutes of Health.  By 2021‚ an expansion was already underway. “Omaha has been selected to build a new federal disaster response center on the University of Nebraska Medical Center to improve the nation’s ability to respond to catastrophic events such as pandemics‚ natural disasters‚ or a direct attack on the United States‚” said a press release from the city.   “The U.S. Department of Defense selected Omaha and four other sites; the announcement was made Wednesday by Nebraska’s congressional delegation. The project will be led by the Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services‚ other partner agencies include the Veterans Administration‚ Department of Homeland Security‚ and Department of Transportation.” That’s a lot of deep state action right there.  Where are these other sites? So far as we can tell‚ they are Washington State (with some controversy)‚ Orange County‚ California (“Health Center”)‚ Tennessee‚ and one other we cannot find‚ but it surely includes New York State by now. No city government would likely turn down a federal contract worth millions and billions.  The history of the abuse of the quarantine power gives rise to chilling examples. Indeed‚ there is not a huge distance between quarantine power‚ quarantine camps‚ detention centers‚ internment camps‚ and concentration camps. They are all based on the state power to name a person or group as a threat‚ politically or therapeutically‚ and uproot them by force.  Civilized countries do not do this‚ one might suppose. But in the 1892 typhus outbreak in the US‚ it became common to arrest and quarantine any immigrant from Russia‚ Italy‚ or Ireland even without any evidence of disease. In 1900‚ the San Francisco Board of Health quarantined 25‚000 Chinese residents and gave them a dangerous injection to prevent the spread of bubonic plague. We know about the Japanese internment during World War II‚ which ended up promoting disease. Fears of AIDS in the late 1980s led to calls for arresting Mexican immigrants to prevent the spread of disease. There was no federal power of quarantine from the founding until the Public Health Services Act of 1944‚ passed during wartime for reasons we’ve yet to discover. The wording of Section 361 is vague enough to be interpreted in many different directions. The CDC even cited this law in defense of its transportation mask mandate.  More recently in our time‚ the US effectively forced house quarantine on as much of the population as possible‚ even while permitting “essential” workers to be out and about to deliver food and services to those lucky enough to have laptop jobs. Artists‚ servers‚ pastors‚ and millions of others were simply out of a job and told to be happy with their stimulus payments.  And it’s not just about disease. The quarantine power has been used by despotic governments all over the world to round up political enemies under the thinnest excuse. Fear of disease is as good an excuse as any but calling a group diseased has a long history of being politically charged‚ as students of eugenics and the Holocaust know.  The problem is not only the abuse; it is power itself. The facilities now being built – they were widely deployed in Australia during the Covid pandemic – are a predictable follow-up. And what could be the point of building and staffing such places except to use them? In government work‚ it is always the same: use the budget and the power or lose it to another competitive purpose.  This is another case of the overriding ethos in these post-pandemic times. Far from dialing back on their errors and pulling back on their powers‚ the entire sorry episode is being used as a template and excuse to ramp up the powers and plans‚ with every intention to cause a repeat of something similar. When that time comes‚ they will have far more than 20 beds ready in their facilities. Don’t forget‚ Infowars relies on YOUR SUPPORT! To continue funding this independent operation‚ we urge you to visit the Infowars Store where you can fund the battle against globalism by purchasing great products such as dietary supplements‚ air and water filters‚ books‚ t-shirts‚ survival gear and much more.