Doctors are wondering why the new strain of bird flu is so mild. According to The Telegraph:

“Since bird flu began spreading in the US, one question has been puzzling scientists: why are the farm workers who are catching it only suffering mild illness?

Of the 66 people infected in America this year, the overwhelming majority – more than 98 per cent – have suffered only from conjunctivitis, tiredness, and a sore throat.”

Since 2003, bird flu had a 50% mortality rate but only one person with pre-existing conditions in the U.S. has died with bird flu, not from bird flu. A new study shows that Americans may be having a lower immune response to this strain and they don’t know why. You would think this is a good thing but they’re saying it’s not because “each infection gives the virus an opportunity to better adapt to create more dangerous strains.”

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The Telegraph reports that “Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.” The newspaper analyzed 73 democracies and found that “leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election.”

They explain it with this quote by an analyst at The European Council on Foreign Relations: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”

That’s willfully ignorant gobbledygook so let us take a stab at it: The left has championed war and crushed economies to do so, racism for the sake of antiracism, divisive identity politics, government spending that has crushed the middle and lower class, unquestioned biopharmaceutical power, destroyed women’s rights to single-sex spaces, promoted the agenda of perverts over science, lowered the standards of education thereby keeping the most disadvantaged people disadvantaged, allowed crime to run rampant, opened borders, trafficked children and sex workers under the nose of law enforcement, and censored and slandered anyone who pointed out any of the above.

Is it really such a mystery that the parties that did that are losing influence? GOOD riddance!

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the ceasefire that was celebrated around the world yesterday is now on hold due to a “last-minute crisis.” The Prime Minister delayed voting on the deal and accused Hamas of “a last-minute blackmail attempt.” The Israeli government was scheduled to vote today. Al Jazeera reports that they may vote on Friday.

Netanyahu stalled the vote because Hamas reportedly objected to “a part of the agreement that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders.” Hamas denies this.

Israel did not slow up the attacks in Gaza in the wake of the ceasefire news. At least 82 Palestinians were reportedly killed on Wednesday, 30 of them killed after the ceasefire was announced.

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President Biden released a farewell video from the Oval Office on Thursday. He warned of an oligarchy that is taking shape under the incoming Trump administration.

He said that the tech oligarchy the evolution of the “military industrial complex.”

“I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well,” said the person who used big tech to censor Americans over true information.

He also spoke about the dangers of free information exchange.

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”

Democrats are clearly afraid of a new era with less censorship and control. John Stuart Mill would disagree and so do we here at Redacted. Mill famously said that “in a free information exchange the truth will rise.”

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The Food and Drug Administration has banned Red No. 3, a food dye that is commonly used in candy, sports drinks, gum and cookies. It has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs for 35 years but for whatever reason, it has been allowed to be in our foods.

The ban won’t take effect until 2027 so food makers have some time to reformulate their products. The FDA says that it is doing this because “two studies… showed cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of FD&C Red No. 3 due to a rat specific hormonal mechanism.” But, they say, that “the way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur in humans.” Still, the Delaney Clause prohibits the FDA from authorizing any food or color additive that has been found to cause cancer in either humans or animals so they are using this as a reasoning to ban the product.

It is interesting timing. This dye has long been known to be harmful but the FDA has decided to do it in advance of the next Trump administration and the MAHA movement which has demanded a safer food supply. Is this a harbinger of what is to come and a willingness by the FDA to do its job now?

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A new report shows that the U.S. has abandoned many Afghan citizens in third countries since it’s “chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.” These are people that the U.S. helped leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over but then proceeded to drop them off in third countries, “some at prison-like facilities and many with no clarity about their prospects for resettlement.”

This comes from a report called “Challenging U.S. Expansion of Detention Practices.” The report claims that “at least 36 countries [are] arbitrarily [holding] tens of thousands of evacuated Afghans.” It says that “contrary to its public assertions, the Biden administration retains significant control over these sites and has allowed the inhumane conditions to persist and deteriorate.”

Does President Biden know this? On Monday, he bragged about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Today, I can also report to the American people [as] the first president in decades who’s not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor,” he said.

How can the U.S. court allies abroad if it allows them to language in prisons with “abysmal conditions”? The records describe “family separations, deteriorating mental health conditions, inadequate facilities and fears of forcible repatriation.”

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President-elect Trump says that he is going to focus on revenue from abroad instead of taxing U.S. citizens! This is bigly!

He calls it the External Revenue Service, as opposed to the Internal Revenue Service. Instead of, as he puts it, relying “on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),” he wants to build the U.S. economy by collecting “our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The average American pays the federal and state government the equivalent of the money they make between January and May of every year. That’s a depressing but true statistic. Even the IRS admits it on their own website! They call it Tax Freedom Day. It is the number of days an American has to work to earn enough to pay federal, state and local taxes. In most states, Americans have to work through mid-April but in high-tax states like New York, they have to work until mid-May just to earn enough to keep for themselves.

What if that were not the case? What if we could pay less because our government collects money by doing business with the world!? Who amongst us could possibly be against that!?

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Israel and Hamas have agreed “in principle” to terms of a ceasefire. According to CBS News, “a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release has been agreed to in principle and, if all goes well, will be finalized by Israel and Hamas this week.”

The deal would call for Israel to withdraw from Gaza, which Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to do. As CBS News points out, the “implementation and enforcement would be left to the Trump administration. Privately, U.S. officials acknowledge this plan for governance is aspirational.” Meaning, Israel could say that they will withdraw but not actually do it. They have reportedly not held up their ceasefire deal in Lebanon.

Then again, it could be the very idea of President Trump that forces Israel to comply. As Gaza reporter Muhammad Shehada put it: “the deal Netanyahu is about to accept now is the SAME deal Biden offered 8 MONTHS ago in May (& Hamas accepted on July 2). The only thing that changed is that Biden never pressured Netanyahu to accept. Trump now did & it worked instantly!”

Glenn Greenwald points out that the media is saying this without saying this with headlines like this.

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Starbucks does not want you loafing around if you don’t buy anything. This is a reversal of their old “open door policy” which welcomed people to hang out in their stores and use their bathrooms whether or not they made a purchase.

Why would they do this? Because non-customers were making Starbucks extremely unpleasant for customers. Walk into any busy Starbucks bathroom and you’ll ask no further questions.

A Starbucks statement called this a “practical step that helps us prioritize our paying customers who want to sit and enjoy our cafes or need to use the restroom during their visit. By setting clear expectations for behavior and use of our spaces, we can create a better environment for everyone.”

The open door policy was announced in 2018 when a video went viral of two Black men sitting in Starbucks without making a purchase. The blowback caused the company to close stores to talk to their employees about race.

Starbucks is also trying to get paying customers to stay longer by offering one free refill for iced or hot coffee for in-store orders.

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As fires continue to ravage Southern California, Governor Gavin Newsom has committed $50 billion to “Trump-proof” the state. This is the first of its kind law that marks money for potential legal battles with the incoming Trump administration.

Governor Newsom plans to fight the Trump administration’s deportation policies, even though it was recently discovered that an illegal immigrant was starting fires in Los Angeles. Newsom wants to protect that guy from any path to deportation. The new plan will fund grants for legal nonprofits and immigration centers.

“This funding agreement cements California’s readiness to serve as a bulwark against Trump’s extremist agenda,” said Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener in a statement.

This comes as the state is accused of thwarting wildfire prevention projects near the Pacific Palisades “to protect an endangered shrub.”

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Hamas has reportedly accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire and now it is down to Israel to approve it. The deal would allow for the release of dozens of Israeli and Palestinian hostages.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that he opposes this because he does not want Israel to release “terrorist hostages,” nor does he want to stop the war and “[dissolve] its achievements.” He calls this a “a catastrophe for the national security of the State of Israel.”

U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a “rare rebuke” of Israeli policy towards Palestinians. He said that Israel must acknowledge that Palestinians will never accept “being a non-people without national rights”. He continued: “Israelis must abandon the myth that they can carry out de facto annexation without cost and consequence to Israel’s democracy, to its standing, to its security.”

Blinken will present a plan for Gaza in a speech to the Atlantic Council on Tuesday morning. It includes a path forward for the Palestinians after the war. Will permanent Israeli presence be a part of that plan? This has been Israel’s number one demand for peace.

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On Monday, the FBI said that there are no threats to President Trump’s safety for his upcoming inauguration. And then it turned around and released a Special Counsel report saying that he was involved in criminal activity. Does anyone else see this contradiction?

How can they simultaneously impugn and protect the same person?

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who a court has ruled was inappropriately appointed, wrote in the report that the President should have been held accountable for “an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power” but he would not be further prosecuted due to his presidential immunity. He makes it clear that he would move forward with prosecution if not for Trump’s win.

President Trump unleashed a fury on his social media calling Smith a “lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election, which I won in a landslide. THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN!!!”

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Candace Owens says that she has been threatened with litigation by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron because she has evidence that the First Lady is a biological man who raped President Macron when he was 15 years old.

This post has over 12 million views on X and Owens’ name has been trending all weekend in France. She says that the Macrons are trying to get X banned in France to prevent the release of damning evidence about the Macrons.

“It is my belief that the Macrons somehow became aware that we are weeks away from releasing an explosive piece about Brigitte Macron,” she says.

She claims that a French reporter has given her evidence about the Macrons and that her planned expose was for the end of January and it will still be published.

The letter is full of more oddities such as the assertion that the President’s relationship with his wife when he was 15 was legal, even though it would not have been, if true. She was in her 30s and his teacher when they met. The age revelation is enough to bring up questions that should have been asked a long time ago, whether or not the First Lady is a man.

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President-elect Trump was sentenced in the trial involving his payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels meaning that he was convicted of felonies but will not serve jail time or pay any fines.

The case ends there for prosecutors and the judge unless President Trump appeals, and we should hope that he does so that none of us are ever convicted without knowing the crime, a clear Sixth Amendment violation.

The president-elect was prosecuted for concealing a crime but was never notified what that exact crime was during his prosecution. His lawyers asked the prosecutors for a Bill of Particulars and the judge denied that request. It wasn’t until the day before the trial that the prosecution landed on a crime and that was problematic, according to constitutional scholar Professor Jed Rubenfeld because the jury did not even really have to agree on that second crime.

The case was full of irregularities such as a judge who had a personal conflict and a clear case of selective prosecution given that Hillary Clinton made a similar bookkeeping entry for the Steele Dossier but was never charged.

This is not a partisan take. It is a constitutional take. And yet the jury convicted and the judge sentenced.

President Trump’s legal team relied on Presidential immunity to stop this sentencing, and the Supreme Court denied to stop it late last week and not the 6th Amendment violation. Many were surprised that Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberal justices to deny his request to halt sentencing.

So will President Trump leave it there? If he doesn’t appeal, there are certain civil liberties he would be denied such as owning a gun or traveling to some countries.

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The wealthiest Los Angeles residents have reportedly hired private fire fighters to protect their homes at a rate of $2,000 per hour because their city cannot be relied upon. This is what it has come to for the most privileged.

Private firefighting companies exist to help state and local governments but also take “on call” services too. They have their own “water supplies, trucks, hoses, fire-quenching chemicals, and other industrial-grade equipment.”

The question is: Why doesn’t Los Angeles have those things too? California officials say that they will look into the reasons that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been empty for months, leaving them without 117 million gallons of water that they sure did need to fight these historic fires.

Governor Gavin Newsom said that all reservoirs were full but NBC reporter Jacob Soboroff called him out on that lie.

“That’s exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir,” Newsom replied.

Los Angeles officials held a press conference on Sunday and were asked repeatedly if they were worried about an incoming Trump administration. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that she wasn’t worried about it and had positive calls with the President-elect but the press kept pushing to root out drama.

The mayor tried to assure residents that they would be focused on rebuilding once the fires were put out.

“We need to cut through the red tape that has always been a problem…to get the rebuilding process started.” Mayor Bass said.

She is taking new heat from The New York Times because she had promised not to travel abroad if she was elected mayor but of course she was caught breaking that promise last week while on a trip to Ghana when the fires broke out.

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California cannot deport the man who was arrested for setting fires in Los Angeles, even though he is reportedly an illegal immigrant.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified the man as Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, a Mexican national who is in the United States illegally. He was tackled by Southern Californian residents as he was trying to start fires with a blowtorch last week. Arson has been a problem as criminals try to expand fires for more burglary opportunities.

Sierra-Leyva is being held on a felony probation violation but since California is a sanctuary state, ICE told Fox News that they don’t expect to detain him for long. According to The New York Post, “The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed an ordinance in November that prohibits the use of city resources and personnel to carry out federal immigration enforcement.”

The suspect will appear in court today but Los Angeles Police Department Divisional Chief Dominic Choi told The Daily Wirethat they don’t have enough evidence and probably cause to charge him with arson, despite VIDEO of him holding the blowtorch.

Can California’s liberal policies fail any harder in full view?

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There are currently five major fires in the Los Angeles area and the destruction has been truly hellish.

According to the Los Angeles Times’ fire tracker, the Lydia fire is the most contained. The Palisades fire has destroyed over 2,000 homes, businesses and buildings and killed at least five people. It is being called “one of the most destructive firestorms to hit the region in memory.”

There is a lot of blame going around for Democratic leaders in the state who cut funding to the Los Angeles Fire Department, rolled back fire management programs, and scaled back logging, which could reduce fire hazards in the state. All of that is valid but authorities have not confirmed the source of any of the fires.

In Paradise, California, when authorities tried to mitigate fire risks with controlled burns, residents complained enough to halt the burns, according to national disaster expert and forest debris expert John Balobeck. He says that before California was so populace, these fires were regular and less consequential and even helpful to the forest fauna. But with the opposition to forestry and controlled burns and current draught conditions, fires like this are more devastating.

So is the blame game really all that easy? It’s not. Democrats don’t seem to have helped but they don’t seem to be the sole cause either.

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A federal court has struck down the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules due to a lawsuit from the state of Tennessee.

The Biden administration revised Title IX rules last year and it would have expanded access to female programs to men. It would have allowed men access to girls sports, girls locker rooms, girls dorms, girls scholarships, etc. It would have allowed for what was called “kangaroo courts,” or secret campus hearings that could punish anyone who was accused of violating regulations without a right to a fair trial. It was an antifeminist scam.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti sued and a federal judge ruled in his favor. The court ruled that the new Title IX does “violate the Constitution, and [is] the result of arbitrary and capricious agency action.”

The Trump-appointed Department of Education and the Justice Department is unlikely to further appeal the case meaning these rules will likely die here on the vine for the time being.

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President Trump posted a video of Columbia professor Jeffery Sachs “sharply criticizing US Middle East policy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s role in leading the US into wars.”

Color me surprised. Sachs is one of the most informed antiwar voices on the Middle East and Ukraine and it is rare that leaders reference him.

In the video, Sachs calls Netanyahu “a deep, dark son of a bitch” who led the US into multiple follies in the Middle East and now wants America to fight a war with Iran on Israel’s behalf.

“Netanyahu had, from 1995 onward, the theory that the only way we’re going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Iran and Syria. The guy is nothing if not obsessive.” He continues, “He’s gotten us into endless wars and because of the power of all of this in U.S. politics, he’s gotten his way.”

Sachs blames President Barack Obama for acting on behalf of Netanyahu by launching a CIA operation in Syria to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, ignoring intelligence that this would backfire with an Islamic Caliphate.

Does this mean that the President-elect will not pacify Netanyahu with American blood any more? Does this mean that he has real informed antiwar advisors? Could it be!?

Netanyahu has reportedly canceled his plans to attend President Trump’s inauguration.

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Politicians in the U.K. voted not to set up an inquiry into a grooming gang scandal. Not interested really.

The scandal is this: recent data shows that “foreign nationals are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens.” The government published this data, validating what citizens already knew. 364 British MPs voted against a measure for a new inquiry.

Conservative politicians asked for an inquiry but MPs voted it down because, they say, they already had several inquiries into this matter. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that more inquiries would only delay help for victims.

What inquiries is he referring to? This data is not new to the government, it is new to the public.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says that the government is running “a cover up” by refusing an inquiry.

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