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Published by Judy Kurtz for The Hill Gene Simmons is blasting COVID-19 deniers and unvaccinated Americans, calling them the "enemy." "If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy," the KISS frontman said Wednesday in an interview on "TalkShopLive." "I don't care about your political beliefs," the "Rock and Roll All Nite" singer said while discussing canceling tour dates earlier this year when he and fellow bandmate Paul Stanley tested positive with so-called breakthrough cases of the coronavirus after being vaccinated and a guitar tech for the group reportedly died. "You are not allowed to infect anybody just because you think you've got rights that are delusional," Simmons, 72, said. "You don't have the right to go through a red light — actually the government has the right to tell you to stop," he continued. "If they tell you you can't smoke in a building,

Health workers in England will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by April 1, health minister Sajid Javid says, making it a mandatory condition of employment for those on the frontline of the National Health Service (NHS). Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to navigate a difficult northern hemisphere winter for the health system without further economically damaging lockdowns to help protect against COVID-19 contagion. Javid said he had to balance the benefit to patients and colleagues with concern that workers might decide to leave their jobs rather than get the shots. He said workplace pressures were one reason the measure would not come in until the spring. "All those working in the NHS and social care will have to be vaccinated. We must avoid preventable harm and protect patients in the NHS, protect colleagues in the NHS and of course protect the NHS itself," Javid told parliament. "We intend the enforcement of this condition to start on the 1st of

Published by Dakota Christensen for Rebel News Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates spoke about COVID-19 vaccines during an interview last week, in which he admitted that the vaccines do not stop transmission of the virus. "We didn't have vaccines that block transmission," said Gates, speaking on the topic of available tools to combat the virus. "We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmission. We need a new way of doing the vaccines." Despite being one of the largest proponents of presently-available COVID-19 vaccines, Gates admits to the failure of the vaccine industry that he has worked tirelessly to prop up. Gates has helped to fund and promote vaccine passports globally. He has promoted and defended authoritarian lockdowns. He has aggressively pushed for these vaccines to be injected into every man, woman and child. But now, Gates acknowledges — and publicly states — that the current COVID s

The historic election upset is now official. New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, one of the most powerful elected officials in the state, has conceded his race. Both candidates spoke out Wednesday. Sweeney says we have not seen the last of him yet, while the Senator-elect wants to bury the hatchet. Sweeney lost reelection to Republican newcomer and commercial truck driver Edward Durr in South Jersey’s 3rd District. An emotional Sweeney talked about his defeat at the statehouse in Trenton on Wednesday. It’s the end of a 20-year run in the Senate and a 12-year tenure as president of the chamber. The Democrat says his loss by about 2,000 votes was the result of overwhelming Republican turnout in his politically split district. It serves parts of Gloucester County, Cumberland County and all of Salem County. “I’m not going away. I won’t say what I’m doing, but I can tell you something, I’ve been a believer in making New Jersey affordable for a long time,” Sweeney sai

Published by Curtis Houck for Newsbusters MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid could barely contain her hatred on Wednesday for Illinois teen Kyle Rittenhouse, complaining his Kenosha, Wisconsin murder trial was proof of “why critical race theory exists” and it’s needed in America. She also denounced him as the new George Zimmerman “using...cop speak” and currying favor with a nearly all-white jury by crying when the real “names” to honor are those he shot. Not to be outdone, MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler griped that he gave “the greatest performance of [his] life” in tandem with a biased judge to create a trial that’s “white privilege on steroids.” After a tease kvetching about “what in the world is going on with the judge,” Reid flexed a heavy dose of race-hustling: If you want to know why critical race theory exists — the actual law school theory that emphasizes that supposedly colorblind laws in America often still have racially discriminatory outcomes, then look no furthe

Moderate Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has already been a leading voice in the Senate to cut President Joe Biden's Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill in half, but now sources say inflation woes might keep Manchin from giving his vote on the bill until next year. The report comes from Axios, which had sources saying Manchin prefers to use the final days in session through December to work on more pressing issues. Manchin tweeted Wednesday morning: By all accounts, the threat posed by record inflation to the American people is not “transitory” and is instead getting worse. From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and DC can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day. — Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) November 10, 2021 Congressional progressives, including the six that voted against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed on the House on the strength of 13 Republican votes, had feared that centri

The Kenosha County, Wis., judge presiding over Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial clashed with the lead prosecutor several times during the teenager’s cross-examination on Wednesday, while defense attorneys requested a mistrial alleging prosecutorial misconduct. The first instance took place shortly after Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger began cross-examining Rittenhouse, an Illinois teen who is being tried for fatally shooting two criminals and wounding another during a chaotic night of protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha in the summer of 2020. The defense objected to Binger’s questions about Rittenhouse’s decision to remain silent about the shootings until taking the witness stand Wednesday, arguing that this line of inquiry infringed on Rittenhouse’s Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. While Binger said he was making the case that Rittenhouse had tailored his testimony based on what other witnesses had said befo