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The Daily Mail reports: Thousands of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have joined a group on social media that threatens ‘direct action’ and promotes combat training and mixed martial art sessions. Alpha Men Assemble, an online collective with more than 2,800 followers, has planned meetings to practice ‘training and strategy tactics’ in London and Lanarkshire. At its most recent meet, close to …

The Metro reports: A man set himself on fire in a car in an apparent anti-vaccine protest on a busy street in Melbourne. Video showed a silver hatchback fully in flames near Church Street in the suburb of Richmond at around 8pm on New Year’s Day, while diners at nearby restaurants reported hearing “screams.” Lydia O’Connor told The Herald Sun …

Buckinghamshire Live reports: Police have issued a CCTV image of a woman they wish to speak to following an anti-vaccine protest in Milton Keynes. A number of protesters descended onto the Central MK coronavirus testing site yesterday (December 29) with an individual spotted taking equipment from the facility. An investigation into the incident is on-going, but no one has been …

Raw Story reports: Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee (D) is scheduled to deliver an address and take questions Thursday, but the event was crashed by anti-mask and anti-vaccine protesters who refused to leave. One of the men was wearing a Rhode Island Freedom Fighters hoodie. The group is made up of healthcare workers who refused to get vaccinated after being …

Newsmax reports: Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 running mate to the late Sen. John McCain, told Newsmax she’d love to return to political office. When asked on Wednesday’s “Eric Bolling: The Balance” if she would return to political office, Palin responded: “I would love to. I would never say never. I’m not so obsessively partisan that I’d let …

The Guardian reports: Confused anti-vaccine protesters entered a test and trace centre in Milton Keynes on Wednesday, appearing to believe it was a coronavirus vaccine centre, where they were filmed shouting abuse at staff and appearing to steal equipment. Video shared on social media showed the group of several dozen activists, led by former UKIP candidate Jeff Wyatt, walking through …

Media Matters reports: As the Biden administration kicked its COVID-19 vaccination campaign into full gear early this year, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight ramped up its own countercampaign to undermine efforts to get people vaccinated. In the first 10 months of the Biden presidency, host Tucker Carlson and his guests pushed a claim that undermined vaccines in 113 of 114 …

Mediaite reports: Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe has been getting quite a bit of attention lately after taking a vocal stand against Covid-19 vaccines. But she has appeared on Fox News a few times since bragging about being anti-vaxx during an appearance with Dan Bongino in October. And now, she has revealed in new tweets that she has contracted Covid-19. …

Newsweek reports: A Dutch economist who was a prominent skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines and an anti-lockdown campaigner has died at the age of 53 after contracting the disease. Robin Fransman, a political economist, passed away due to the consequences of infection with the SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, on December 28 at a hospital in Amsterdam, Dutch daily …

The Daily Beast reports: Ardently pro-Trump radio host Wayne Allyn Root wants to stage an “intervention” with Donald Trump over the ex-president’s support for the COVID-19 vaccine. “He needs an intervention from a friend,” Root explained this week on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars program, adding that Trump is “in total delusion.” Root continued: “He’s been right on everything except …

“I should probably say this, because I haven’t yet. My 4/20 show that sold out in Vancouver, I don’t think that’s happening. I don’t think I can even get into the country. “I don’t think I can go and even if I do go, I don’t trust that Vancouver is not going to follow suit with what Toronto did — …

The Daily Beast reports: The View’s already difficult path to replacing Meghan McCain as its resident conservative co-host was made slightly more difficult when one contender made clear she would not get vaccinated for COVID-19. Fox News contributor Lisa Marie Boothe interviewed with ABC News and The View executives earlier this year, a source close to Boothe told The Daily …

The New York Times reports: The higher vaccination rate for older people has helped to protect them. Although more older than younger people still die from Covid-19, the virus is now responsible for a smaller share of all deaths among people 65 and older than it was before vaccines became available to all adults. For those younger than 65, Covid-19 …

Yet another pointless demonstration in NYC last night: The Burger King at Fulton and Adams Streets in Brooklyn, near Borough Hall, in Downtown Brooklyn was the site of an anti-mandate rally Monday, whereupon protesters gathered to protest the city’s vaccine mandate on Monday evening. After protests outside Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, the current office of Mayor-Elect Eric Adams, protestors were arrested …

The Italian wire service ANSA reports: A diehard Italian anti-vaxxer who became a popular radio personality died of COVID at the age of 61 on Monday night, sources said Tuesday. Maurizio Buratti, better known as “Mauro from Mantua” died in a Verona hospital where he had been receiving treatment for some weeks. Despite being in a critical condition, he never …

ABC News reports: Buffalo Bills receiver Cole Beasley has been fined multiple times for COVID-19 protocol violations, reaching a cumulative sum in the range of $100,000, according to league and union sources. Beasley’s COVID-19 absence for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots won’t cost him money, though. Under the NFL and NFLPA agreement, even unvaccinated players are entitled to …

The Daily Mail reports: A group of anti-vaxxers protested outside Trump Grill in New York City on Thursday after they were denied entrance to the restaurant. A police officer was recorded trying to reason with the handful of protesters, who appeared to be in the restaurant’s lobby. “Prove to us. that we are a threat. Yeah, so the burden of …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens found herself on the defensive regarding her opposition to Covid-19 vaccines Thursday after former President Donald Trump told her in a new interview he views them as both safe and effective. Thursday, Owens reacted to reporting from the interview from The Daily Beast, which had keyed in on her exchange with Trump over vaccines. Owens took …

Raw Story reports: It was just a few years ago that conservative Candace Owens was the CEO of a website that mocked the penis size of Donald Trump and now she’s taking $350,000 from him, and helping to promote him, recalled New York Times reporter Ken Vogel. Owens did an interview with Trump on Tuesday, but the interview came after …

“Oh no, the vaccines work. The ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take the vaccine. “But it’s still their choice. And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, it’s a very minor form. “People aren’t dying …