Common sense: More money won’t fix our Schools
More money won’t fix our Canadian Schools
Each year as students go back to school, the calls for increased funding for public education get louder. Teacher’s unions spread fear about conservative governments making cuts to education, larger class sizes and that the only way to improve student outcomes is for more funding.
However, the facts show a different story that the legacy media doesn’t cover. It’s time for a Reality Check.
In this week’s episode of Reality Check with Jasmine Moulton, Jasmine dissects the left’s most popular arguments and uncovers where increases in education funding really go.
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Milei Takes Charge: Argentina’s President Fights Socialism with Free Market Reforms
Milei Takes Charge: Argentina’s President Fights Socialism with Free Market Reforms
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Iran's Attack on Israel in 48 hours? India Issues Travel Advisory | Vantage with Palki Sharma
Iran's Attack on Israel in 48 hours? India Issues Travel Advisory | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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Houthis Carnage On Eid: 'Two Israeli & U.S. Ships' Targeted In Red Sea While Iran Threats Loom Large
Houthis Carnage On Eid: 'Two Israeli & U.S. Ships' Targeted In Red Sea While Iran Threats Loom Large
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LIVE: Trudeau and top Liberal Ministers testify on last day of election interference inquiry
LIVE: Trudeau and top Liberal Ministers testify on last day of election interference inquiry.
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BILL MAHER’S COVID RANT UNDERSCORES THE HIGHWIRE’S EARLY ACCURACY
BILL MAHER’S COVID RANT UNDERSCORES THE HIGHWIRE’S EARLY ACCURACY
In a recent fiery segment on “Real Time,” Bill Maher unleashed a scorching critique of the oversights made by government and health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. This viral moment offers a retrospective journey back to January 2020, highlighting how “The HighWire” was way ahead of the curve in exposing these critical misjudgments—from the debate over school closures to the undervaluation of natural immunity.
AIRDATE: April 4, 2024
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THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON SUPPLEMENTS
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT’S WAR ON SUPPLEMENTS
Constitutional Attorney & President of the Natural Health Products Protection Association, Shawn Buckley, LLB, warns Del of the Canadian government’s war on vitamins and supplements via the introduction of extreme regulations designed to restrict access and raise the cost of natural products.
AIRDATE: April 4, 2024
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Putin Accuses Western Leaders of Pedophilia and Cannibalism
Putin Accuses Western Leaders of Pedophilia and Cannibalism.
Many Western political leaders are suffering from a type of madness which cannot be treated, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who revealed that the global elite engage in vices including pedophilia and cannibalism.
Rumors have been circulating for years regarding the depraved appetites of elites including Klaus Schwab, the Obamas and the Clintons, and Putin, fresh from a landslide Russian election victory, has chosen this moment to expose the real nature of the cabal that has seized unelected power in the West.
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THE BOLSHEVIKS ARE COMING TO BRING CIVIL WAR -- NATHAN REYNOLDS
THE BOLSHEVIKS ARE COMING TO BRING CIVIL WAR -- NATHAN REYNOLDS
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Top Virologist Warns 'Massive, Massive Tsunami' of mRNA-Vaccinated Deaths on Horizon
Top Virologist Warns 'Massive, Massive Tsunami' of mRNA-Vaccinated Deaths on Horizon
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A “massive tsunami” of death and disease is about to decimate the global mRNA-vaccinated population according to top virologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, who warns that the spike protein is a ticking time bomb programmed to explode.
If there was ever a virologist we should listen to, it’s Dr. Bossche, whose CV includes roles as a senior officer in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and senior program manager for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (or GAVI).
The Belgian virologist is a real high-level insider who could not continue working for the elite in good conscience. Now, he’s blowing the whistle about his former colleagues and their secrets and what he says about the elites’ plans for humanity could not be more disturbing.
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SHADOW BANNED! DARE NOT SPEAK ABOVE YOUR BREATH ABOUT THIS -- DUSTIN NEMOS
SHADOW BANNED! DARE NOT SPEAK ABOVE YOUR BREATH ABOUT THIS -- DUSTIN NEMOS.
It looks to me that there is some internal war between these World crazed NWO/Globalist assholes; the Zionist, Freemasons, Illuminati, Jesuits, Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Catholic Church, Royal Families, etc... They all are pointing fingers at the other claiming that that group is solely responsible, when its a lot of all of them jockeying for position.
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Covid ER nurse tells her story - they lied
Covid ER nurse tells her story - they lied
Bear in mind, it is and was initially the TREATMENT (Remdesivir, and ventilation) that was killing these early people. Even this nurse is not aware at that time of the interview that there is no such thing as the scam Covid... Later, she correctly describes the inoculations as what was causing their deaths.
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This is EXACTLY What Biden Is Doing That They Won't Tell You - Protect From Biden TODAY
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THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN...
THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN...
Video credit Telegram @ #roqmihard
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ADRENOCHROME
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Its all about RESCUING victims from the underground, save the children, drwiming the swamp execute all pedos and traitors. Everything else is prio 2 or n = not important
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EVERYONE INVOVLED WITH ADRENOCHROME GETS ELIMINATED BY SPECIAL FORCES - ELIMINATED BY SIGHT. QUICK TRIAL >> DEATH PENALTY
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SATANISM - CHILD SACRIFICING, ADRENOCHROME and The DEATH CULT
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9th SATANIC DEATH CULT CIRCLE - HUMAN HUNTING PARTIES - Royals Hunting Children as Sport for ADRENOCHROME PART I
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REPTOS NEED ADRENOCHROME, HUMANS ARE JUST A FOOD SOURCE FOR THEM... THEY PREFER CHILDREN
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HAITI 🇭🇹 - ONE OF THE MAIN HUB FOR CHILDSEX TRAFFICKING, CLINTON FOUNDATION & RED CROSS
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CORRUPT GLIOBALISTS STEALING HAITI'S WEALTH and CHILDREN
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LUCIFERIANS - SATANISTS - SPIRITAL WARFARE BY SATAN'S WITCH BITCHES & ADRENOCHROME JUNKIES
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NATO’s Secret Armies (A Documentary or Rothschild/Zionist Smoke Screen)
NATO’s Secret Armies.(A Documentary or Rothschild/Zionist Smoke Screen) Gladio
Prados & Ganser: NATOs Secret Armies Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe.
(ZIONISM = NATO = CIA = MASSAD = MI6)
In case of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe the secret Gladio soldiers under NATO command would have formed a so-called stay-behind network operating behind enemy lines, strengthening and setting up local resistance movements in enemy-held territory, evacuating shot-down pilots and sabotaging the supply lines and production centres of the occupation forces with explosives. Yet the Soviet invasion never came.
The real and present danger in the eyes of the secret war strategists in Washington and London were the at-times numerically strong Communist parties in the democracies of Western Europe. Hence the network in the total absence of a Soviet invasion took up arms in numerous countries and fought a secret war against the political forces of the left.
The secret armies, as the secondary sources now available suggest, were involved in a whole series of terrorist operations and human rights violations that they wrongly blamed on the Communists in order to discredit the left at the polls.
The operations always aimed at spreading maximum fear among the population and ranged from bomb massacres in trains and market squares (Italy), the use of systematic torture of opponents of the regime (Turkey), the support for right-wing coup d’états (Greece and Turkey), to the smashing of opposition groups (Portugal and Spain).
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Documentary: The Unholy Alliance
Documentary: As in Revelations;
The Synagogue of Satan.
The Unholy Alliance.
The British - Zionist NWO.
Documentary: The Synagogue of Satan. The British - Jewish Zionist NWO. An Unholy Alliance
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MANY SECRETS ARE REVEALED. EVEN MANY I HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY KNOWN MYSELF
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Outrage after Outrage. Crime after Crime. Betrayal after Betrayal. Every one of them a Pockmark on History. Every one of them a Pothole on the Road to the New World Order.
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The Rothschild's were indeed a Plague Upon our Modern World. But their Jewish Zionist War could Never Have Been Waged without the help of the City of London - Vatican Alliance. The Jews were invited directly into the Elite Money Power World of Influence and Control.
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Dark Clouds Over Elberton 'The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones'
Dark Clouds Over Elberton 'The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones'
Dark Clouds Over Elberton 'The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones'
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The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones."This film is a must see for those who wish to learn more about the globalist use of environmentalism towards the cause of population control.
In 1979, a mysterious stranger appeared in the remote town of Elberton, Georgia. The man introduced himself as R.C. Christian but admitted this was not his real name. He claimed to represent a small group of loyal Americans who wanted to erect a monument they hoped would inspire “the Age of Reason.”
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The monument was named the Georgia Guidestones. Written on the great granite stones are ten commands or “guides” that were intended to provide wisdom for mankind. But the first of them calls for a reduction of the world population to a mere 500 million. In order to achieve this, billions of people would have to die. Many have wondered: is the monument designed to inspire wisdom? Or to launch a global genocide?
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Evidence Of Manufactured Food Supply Crisis Mounts As More Cows And Chickens Killed
Evidence Of Manufactured Food Supply Crisis Mounts As More Cows And Chickens Killed
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WHY I'M PREPPING IN 2024. (not the Apocalypse) | Homesteading Food Supply Prepper Farming
WHY I'M PREPPING IN 2024. (not the Apocalypse) | Homesteading Food Supply Prepper Farming
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Cannibalism and Kuru Disease : Prion Disease
Do pigs share 98 per cent of human genes?
Some pigs and humans are more alike than you realize.
I heard that pigs share 98 per cent of human genes. Is this correct?
—Wendy
Like it or not, we've all got a lot in common with pigs. We're omnivorous mammals that gain weight easily and are susceptible to the flu for starters.
The sheer fact that pigs and humans are mammals means that we share some genes. But it is simplistic to put an actual figure on the amount of genetic material we have in common, says animal geneticist Professor Chris Moran from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
"Making broad comparisons by saying … 98 per cent of [human] genes are similar to a chimpanzee or whatever else … tend to be a little bit misleading," says Moran.
The amount of genetic material we share with other species depends upon what you compare.
All living organisms have genetic information encoded in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), divided into units called genes. Information is transferred from the genes via a chemical called ribonucleic acid (RNA). Some RNA is translated into chains of amino-acid that make up proteins, the building blocks of every living cell.
Scientists have discovered about 20,000 mammalian genes that encode proteins with similar basic functions. So if you compare the protein-encoding portion of our DNA we have a lot in common with a lot of mammals.
"Mammals have most of the same genes for similar biochemical and physiological functions. If you look at the details of the genes … there'll be differences between them, but they'll still be doing the same kind of function," says Moran.
"It's a little bit like having a Ford or a Holden — it's still obviously a car but a slightly different version."
But while 20,000 similar genes sounds like a lot, only one to two per cent of our DNA actually encodes proteins. Most of the rest is transcribed into RNA.
Some RNAs that don't carry the plans for proteins have important structural or functional roles in their own right. Transfer RNAs, for example, ferry specific amino acids into a growing protein, while ribosomal RNA constitutes part of the factories in cells that manufacture proteins.
But we are only just beginning to understand what many other non-coding RNA molecules do. Some control higher level functions such as the expression of protein-encoding genes, and some have even been implicated in memory.
Evolutionary differences
Parts of the genome that don't encode proteins tend to evolve rapidly, so you can have significant regions of the genome where there's no discernible similarity between species, says Moran. This means many sequences will not line up when you compare genomes between species.
And the further away two species are on the evolutionary tree, the greater the difference.
"If we compare really closely related species, like a human and chimpanzee, we can still see the similarity between these rapidly changing sequences. If you move further away to the more distantly related pig, so many changes in the DNA will have occurred that it is no longer possible to recognise that the sequences were ever similar.
"Depending upon what it is that you are comparing you can say 'Yes, there's a very high degree of similarity, for example between a human and a pig protein coding sequence', but if you compare rapidly evolving non-coding sequences from a similar location in the genome, you may not be able to recognise any similarity at all. This means that blanket comparisons of all DNA sequences between species are not very meaningful."
One area where comparison of genome sequences isn't all that relevant, says Moran, is the emerging science of transplanting organs and tissues from pigs to humans.
"[The success of pig-human transplants] has very little to do with whether there's a two per cent or 20 per cent difference in the genome sequence — if those numbers actually meant anything anyway — the main barrier is caused by just one gene," says Moran.
That gene is called galactose-alpha-1,3,galactotransferase — gal-transferase for short . All mammals except humans and higher apes have a working version of gal-transferase, which coats cells with an antigen (a molecule that our immune system reacts to). This means if pig tissue is transplanted into humans our immune system will mount a drastic rejection response as our bodies detect the antigen and attack it.
Scientists have come up with a solution to stop tissue rejection: genetically modifying the pigs by eliminating the gal-transferase gene. A few more human genes are also added to the pigs to make the pig tissue even more acceptable to our immune system.
So some pigs and humans are now even more alike.
Chris Moran is a professor of animal genetics at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Veterinary Science. He was interviewed by Genelle Weule.
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A husky was lost in Kamchatka. They started looking for him using a drone and found him hanging out with bears
A husky was lost in Kamchatka. They started looking for him using a drone and found him hanging out with bears.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
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How they get us to fight to have our kids indoctrinated by them.Teachers Unions vs Students.
Teachers Unions vs Students. How they get us to fight to have our kids indoctrinated by them. Simply cause and effect... This is what they can do to get us to do what they want. That is to indoctrinate your children voluntarily.
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