Australian Hospitals Over Capacity With People Beaten By Police For Not Wearing Masks

SYDNEY—Australian hospitals are bursting at the seams, having reached their breaking point after being flooded with patients during the pandemic. The Australians streaming into the hospitals don't have COVID, though, but instead are just bloodied and bruised from cops beating them up for not wearing masks, going outside for fresh air, and talking to other people.

While Australia has done well keeping case numbers down throughout the pandemic, their performance fighting the virus has been offset by the number of people getting curb-stomped by police.

"Well, bugger! It's way over capacity here, mate," said one nurse in Sydney. "By the beard of a Koala! We got way too many wankers comin' on in here and gettin' all cracked up by the bloody coppers, mate." In American English, this apparently means, "Well, gosh darn it all! There's too many people in this hospital, y'all. By the beard of Abraham Lincoln! We have way too many people coming into this here hospital and getting beat up by the popo, dude."

According to medical professionals in Australia, the concerning rise in people getting absolutely demolished by the police and having to get rushed to the hospital is exacerbated by the fact that...

Aristotle On Equity:

There is trouble in the Forest, 

And the Creatures all have fled, 

As the Maples scream oppression, 

And the Oaks just shake their heads. 

So the maples formed a union 

And demanded equal rights. 

"These oaks are just too greedy; 

We will make them give us light." 

Now there's no more oak oppression, 

For they passed a noble law, 

And the trees are all kept equal 

By hatchet, axe, and saw.

Trees - Rush

Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can’t Have Nice Things

Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is having an extramarital affair with adviser Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as a campaign manager for Donald Trump. The alleged fling reportedly has continued for months, sources say.

Lewandowski accompanied Noem across the country as she stumped for Trump’s reelection last year. According to South Dakota Republicans, former Noem chief of staff Joshua Shields left, in part, because of Lewandowski’s butting in. Lewandowski, who is married with four children, still has the former president’s ear, which he reportedly uses to Noem’s advantage.

American Greatness contacted Noem’s office for comment on Tuesday. No comment had been received at the time of publication.

Noem, a married mother of three, has been eyed as a possible running mate for a Trump presidential bid in 2024. Bloomberg reported in March that Trump’s closest advisors are pushing either for a black or female vice presidential candidate. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Noem have both been named among the favorites by members of Trump’s inner circle.

On March 5, Donald Trump, Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle hosted a fundraiser for Noem at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and home in Palm Beach. Noem was invited to a second fundraiser there in April. Lewandowski has played a key role in boosting Noem’s clout with Trump.

In a brief interview with the New York Times, Lewandowski praised Noem as having “a huge future in Republican politics.” But these recent revelations, in combination with other challenges, threaten her chances of winning a ticket to the White House.

“There are members of Congress close to Mar-a-Lago who have called the affair ‘an open secret’ and worried that about Noem’s viability as a national candidate and within the movement,” a source familiar with the matter told American Greatness.

The governor has recently been on the defensive against Republicans upset with her handling of issues ranging from transgenderism to corporate vaccine mandates in her state. Critics have described her supposed “conservative principles” as hollow.

Noem has a habit of saying one thing from the saddle of a high horse and doing another.

After South Dakota Republicans brought a bill to Noem’s desk to ban biological males from competing in women’s sports, the governor killed the legislation with a “style and form” veto. Republican Representative Rhonda Milstead denounced the move to local reporter Robert Mercer. “It is overreaching by trying to legislate law as the executive branch,” she said. Noem subsequently issued diluted, face-saving executive orders in lieu of legislation.

Noem attempted to defend herself by making a bizarre and incoherent appeal to Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” But detractors pointed out her connections to interest groups that oppose anti-transgender legislation, namely, Amazon and the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce.

In April, Noem appointed her chief of staff, Tony Venhuizen, to the South Dakota Board of Regents. He currently sits on the board of directors for the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, where Amazon had been planning to build a fulfillment center that lawmakers worried would be axed in response to Noem signing the transgender sports bill.

In August, Noem found herself on the ropes again. This time, for refusing to prevent private companies from imposing vaccine mandates on employees. “You can’t be a constitutional conservative only when it suits you,” she wrote in the Washington Times. “Since when did the Republican Party become the party of big government and social engineering using government power to force behavior?”

Noem’s message to Americans was that her “conservative principles” relegated her to inaction. Further, anyone upset about corporate vaccine mandates could always just quit their job: “Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility, and doesn’t force mandates on their employees,” she said.

In practice, however, Noem’s fidelity to principle is plastic.

The Associated Press reported this week that after a South Dakota state agency denied her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Noem met with the state employee who ran the agency, the woman’s direct supervisor, the state labor secretary, and her daughter. Four months later, Noem’s daughter received her certification. Shortly after that, the labor secretary demanded the retirement of...

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Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden Regime; Calls on Admin to Reinstate Trump’s Successful Border Policy

Former Democratic lawmaker and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has slammed the Biden regime for its catastrophic handling of the ongoing crisis along the US-Mexico border, calling on the administration to immediately reinstate Trump’s effective border policies.

Gabbard, a left-wing populist who Hillary Clinton attempted to smear as a “Russian asset” during the 2016 presidential primaries, took to Twitter to express her deep discontent with the Biden regime’s mismanagement of the United States’ southern border, which prominent figures like Tucker Carlson insist is being mishandled on purpose to accelerate the demographic shift of the country.

“The Biden/Harris open-door policy has been a disaster,” the former lawmaker from Hawaii wrote. “It needs to end now. The main beneficiaries of open borders are gangs, cartels, and human traffickers. The Trump policy of having people wait on the other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated.”

But Gabbard wasn’t finished there. In another post, she continued unloading on the Biden-Harris administration for its complicity in the ongoing foreign invasion of the United States, saying: “The humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border is the direct result of your open-border policy. As I said in my 2020 presidential campaign, we can’t have a secure nation if we don’t...

I Mean... The Hypocrisy Of The Ruling Class Is Limitless...

If you don’t fight mask mandates, eventually you will get vaccine mandates

Vaccine And Mask Coercion Is A Purge Of Republican Voters, And Republicans Are Letting It Happen

 

Biden’s Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70,000 To $700,000?

Joe Biden didn’t just announce a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on companies employing 100 or more people, he plans to enforce it.

On Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill, passed it out of the Budget Committee, and sent it to the House floor.

Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.

The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations—almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden’s announced mandate.

The Biden Administration has already started implementing its vaccine mandate enforcement blueprint:

• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set precedent this summer and published an emergency Covid-19 rule in the Federal Register taking jurisdiction over and providing justification for Covid-19 being a workplace hazard for healthcare employment.
• Early in September, Biden announced his 100-or-more employee Covid-19 vaccine mandate and tasked OSHA with drafting an enforcement rule to...

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7 Takeaways as Milley, Austin, McKenzie Testify on Afghanistan, China Phone Calls

In some cases, the answers were surprising. In other cases, the answers were surprising only in hearing top U.S. military leaders state publicly what already was suspected.

The Senate Armed Services Committee got some answers Tuesday from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command.

Most questions from senators focused on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, but they also wanted to know about Milley’s now infamous calls to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, while Donald Trump was still president.

Austin, Milley, and McKenzie are set to testify Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee.

Here are seven big takeaways from their appearance at the Senate hearing.

1. Military to Biden: Leave 2,500 Troops

Milley and McKenzie each said they had backed keeping 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan and feared less than that would risk that country’s falling into chaos.

Milley said he wouldn’t disclose what he advised Biden, but then appeared to do so immediately afterward.

“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation,” Milley said. “And I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.”

McKenzie affirmed the same, but said he also would not share his confidential conversation with President Joe Biden.

“I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. I also recommended in the fall of 2020 that we maintain 4,500 at that time,” McKenzie said during questioning from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the committee’s ranking member.

“Those were my personal views,” he said. “I also have a view that a withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government.”

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., inquired whether either of the generals advised Biden on the hasty Afghan exit.

“If all this is true, Gen. Milley, why haven’t you resigned?” Cotton asked.

Milley answered that he was devoted to civilian control of the military.

“Resigning is a really serious thing. It’s a political act, if I’m resigning in protest,” Milley said. “My job is to provide advice. … That’s what the law is. The president doesn’t have to agree with that advice.”

Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2019, added:

It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken. My dad didn’t get a choice to resign at Iwo Jima. And those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get the choice to resign. And I’m not going to turn my back on them.

Abbey Gate is the entrance to the Kabul airport where the terrorist bombing occurred June 29, killing 13 American service members.

2. What Generals Say When Asked if Biden Lied?

Biden said in an Aug. 19 interview with ABC News that he didn’t “recall” anyone making a recommendation to him about leaving a troop contingency behind in Afghanistan, which the U.S. and coalition forces invaded in late 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton White House official, asked Biden: “Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.”

Biden responded: “No, they didn’t. It was split. That wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.”

Stephanopoulos gave him another chance in the interview.

Biden answered: “No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out, in a time frame, all troops. They didn’t argue against that.”

Stephanopoulos, as if aware otherwise, asked yet again.

“So your military advisers did not tell you we should just keep 2,500 troops? It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that.”

Biden held firm.

“No. No one said that to me that I can recall,” the president answered.

Biden’s credibility has come under question on numerous points regarding the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan.

Cotton asked Austin, a retired four-star Army general, whether Biden was telling the truth.

“I know the president to be an honest and forthright man,” Austin replied.

After Cotton asked for a direct answer, the secretary said, using passive voice: “Their input was received by the president, for sure.”

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, later pushed the generals on Biden’s statement.

“He’s not telling the truth to the American people,” Sullivan said. “The president said none of his military advisers told him that he should keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Milley, that was a false statement by the president of the United States, was it not?”

Milley first wavered.

“I didn’t even see the statement, to tell you the truth,” Milley said.

After being pressed, he said: “I’m not going to categorize a statement of the president of the United States.”

Sullivan asked McKenzie: “Remember, you do not have to cover for the president when he’s not telling the truth. Was that a false statement or not?”

McKenzie also didn’t answer directly.

“I’ve given you my opinion on the matter,” McKenzie said. “I’ve given you my judgment.”

Sullivan said, “I think we all know it was a false statement.”

Notably, neither the defense secretary nor the two generals said Biden made a true statement.

3. About Those China Phone Calls

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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1491

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

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