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  • Dear Abby: My anti-vaxxer son won’t take his sick young child to a doctor. Is it neglect?

    02/07/2024 3:15:36 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    Mlive ^ | Abigail Van Buren
    DEAR ABBY: My son and daughter-in-law are in their early 30s. They have a 5-year-old child who hasn’t seen a doctor since infancy. They opted not to vaccinate. Although my husband and I do not agree with it, we keep our mouths shut. Our precious granddaughter has been sick with a severe cough and fever on and off for close to two months. Although they have health insurance, they refuse to take her to a doctor. They treat her with over-the-counter meds and holistic remedies. I finally told my daughter-in-law I felt it was negligence to not take the child...
  • Bangladesh won't let in any more Rohingya, they are a burden on us: Minister

    02/07/2024 3:07:58 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Firstpost ^ | February 07, 2024 | Ajeyo Basu
    Since the Rohingya are considered foreign intruders by Myanmar's military government and have been denied citizenship, Bangladesh has little chance of reuniting with them across the border in Rakhine, the world's largest refugee populationBangladesh declared on Wednesday that it will no longer accept the large number of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into its borders, citing security concerns. Nearly a million Muslim Rohingya people reside in cramped camps made of bamboo and plastic in Bangladesh’s border province of Cox’s Bazar; the majority of them escaped a military crackdown in 2017. The Rohingya people have been persecuted for decades in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar....
  • Disease X: Is World Ready for the Next Pandemic?

    02/07/2024 3:00:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    The National ^ | Jan 19, 2024 | Daniel Bardsley
    A pathogen that is not yet known to cause disease in people could begin infecting humans in vast numbers, say expertsIt is just over four years since the novel coronavirus – which came to be known as Covid-19 – first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The rapid outbreak of the disease sparked a pandemic, claiming millions of lives and devastating economies the world over. Now experts are working to prevent a future global health crisis by sharpening their focus on an as yet unknown threat, often termed as Disease X. At a World Economic Forum discussion in Davos...
  • Report: It WAS Trudeau Who Invited NAZI Waffen-SS Soldier To Greet Zelensky In Parliament

    02/07/2024 3:00:35 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 9 replies
    SGT Report ^ | February 7, 2024 | Steve Watson, Modernity News
    The Speaker of the House took the fall Remember last year when a Waffen-SS Nazi was given a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament in front of Ukrainian President Zelensky? It turns out that it was indeed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who sent the invite. As we reported at the time, the Canadian Speaker of the House was forced to resign following the incident where 98-year-old Ukrainian SS solider Yaroslav Hunka was cheered and honoured, with Trudeau refusing to take any responsibility. Trudeau effectively sacrificed Anthony Rota, with opposition leader Pierre Poilievre noting that “Canadians are sick and tired...
  • U.S. Credit card debt hits a 'staggering' $1.13 trillion. Here's why so many Americans are under pressure

    02/07/2024 2:57:24 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    CNBC via MSN ^ | 02/07/24 | Jessica Dickler
    * Collectively, Americans owe $1.13 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. * Higher prices have largely caused consumers to spend down their savings and lean on credit cards to make ends meet. * Now, young adults, who are also burdened by high levels of student loan debt, are increasingly falling behind on the payments, the New York Fed found. Americans now owe a collective $1.13 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is...
  • Transgender Daycare Worker Avoids Prison

    02/07/2024 2:55:16 PM PST · by justme4now · 13 replies
    Reduxx.info ^ | 2/7/24 | Anna Slatz
    Transgender Daycare Worker Avoids Prison Kentucky transgender daycare worker "Maria Childers" will NOT be going to prison despite pleading guilty to sexually abusing a baby while changing its diaper. He hired a trans activist lawyer, who argued that he would not have access to estrogen, and the court agreed. The court then reduced his bond from $100,000 to $5,000 and released him, downgrading his felony sexual abuse of a minor charge to a misdemeanor and dropping all other abuse charges.ARTICLE
  • 'They are going after Trump supporters': Killer Mike's arrest after winning 3 Grammy Awards sparks debate online

    02/07/2024 2:52:30 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    MEAWW ^ | Feb 5, 2024 | Ishita Verma
    Rapper Killer Mike stirred up a significant buzz on the internet when he was arrested at the 2024 Grammy Awards shortly after accepting his awards. The artist was escorted out of the venue with his hands cuffed behind his back, sparking a heated debate on social media. Many users criticized the Grammys for allowing such an incident to occur and questioned the circumstances surrounding the rapper's arrest. According to the Daily Mail, Mike made headlines as he was escorted away from the Grammys in handcuffs following an alleged 'physical altercation' after winning three awards. The acclaimed rapper from 'Run The...
  • Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- The sin Within

    02/07/2024 2:52:09 PM PST · by MurphsLaw
    Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 02.07.24 | Bishop Robert Barron
    Mark 7:14-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that evil comes from within. From our heart “come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.” The Church teaches that such evils are consequences of original sin. The doctrine holds that there is something fundamentally off about us, that all is not well, that we are off-kilter, skewed, mixed up. We Catholics don’t hold to a doctrine of total depravity, but we do indeed hold that original sin has worked its way into every nook and cranny of our lives: our minds, our wills, our...
  • Why I’m Interviewing Vladimir Putin

    02/07/2024 2:50:04 PM PST · by hardspunned · 22 replies
    X ^ | 2/6/24 | Tucker Carlson
    https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1754939251257475555?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
  • Final Hours in Avdiivka as Russia Storms City Center

    02/07/2024 2:44:12 PM PST · by House Atreides · 8 replies
    HistoryLegends YouTube Channel ^ | Feb 7, 2024 | HistoryLegends
    Avdiivka Endgame. Russian Offensive in South Donetsk. Can Ukraine hold in Pervomaivske, Heohiirvka and Novomikhailivka?
  • White House says ICE will reduce deportations, detention capacity if Republicans don't pass border bill

    02/07/2024 2:42:35 PM PST · by Mariner · 43 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | February 7th, 2024 | Chris Pandolfo
    The White House on Thursday announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will soon be "forced" to reduce operations at the southern border due to lack of funds.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that because Republicans have not passed the bipartisan border security agreement with funding for Israel and Ukraine, the administration is left with no choice but to pull back from the border."Because congressional Republicans are choosing partisan politics over our national security and refusing to pass the bipartisan national security agreement that includes significant border reforms and funding, over the coming weeks, ICE will be forced to reduce...
  • Poilievre attacks Trudeau over Nazi tumult; Tories abandoning Ukraine, PM retorts

    02/07/2024 2:42:22 PM PST · by Navy Patriot
    MSN The Canadian Press ^ | February 6, 2024 | The Canadian Press
    OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fending off fresh questions about the controversial Nazi veteran who was invited to the House of Commons last fall. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants Trudeau to step down, the same fate that befell former Commons Speaker Anthony Rota. Rota resigned after Yaroslav Hunka was invited to — and lauded at — a speech in the House of Commons by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy. Media reports now say Trudeau's office also invited Yaroslav Hunka to a reception in Toronto in Zelenskyy's honour that same day. Hunka, a Ukrainian-Canadian veteran, fought for a voluntary unit...
  • Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scuttling deal they had demanded from Democrats

    02/07/2024 2:34:24 PM PST · by Mariner · 26 replies
    AP via Yahoo ^ | February 7th, 2024 | STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package Wednesday, scuttling months of negotiations with Democrats on legislation intended to cut back record numbers of illegal border crossings.Many Republicans said the election-year compromise wasn't enough, even as supporters of the bill insisted it was the best possible in divided government.The 49-50 vote, far short of the 60 ayes needed to take up the bill, came after most Republicans said they would vote against the legislation, which also includes $60 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel and was backed by President Joe Biden. GOP lawmakers...
  • Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today.

    02/07/2024 2:23:42 PM PST · by Carriage Hill · 39 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 2.07.2024 | Scott Tobias
    Though it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and the wave of revisionist westerns that came out of Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s, Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles doesn’t need any artfully hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography to upend Old West mythology. True, it is a comedy where a horse gets cold-cocked, a Native American chief (one of three characters played by Brooks) speaks Yiddish and Count Basie’s orchestra makes an appearance on the plains. Yet from the opening sequence, where Chinese immigrants and recently freed Black slaves work under...
  • Sen. Mitch McConnell Defends Migration Bill Fiasco

    02/07/2024 1:59:23 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 52 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/07/2024 | NEIL MUNRO
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is blaming Republican senators for the creation and immediate collapse of the pro-migration bill that he secretly drafted with Democrat leaders. “The reason we’ve been talking about the border is because they [GOP Senators] wanted to,” he told Politico, adding, “The reason we ended up where we are is the members decided, since it was never going to become law, they didn’t want to deal with it … I don’t know who is at fault here, in terms of trying to cast public blame.” In reality, McConnell sent Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) to develop...
  • Racist Monday.com TV ad ("What Does the Data Say?")

    02/07/2024 1:53:43 PM PST · by lonewacko_dot_com · 18 replies
    The commercial "What Does the Data Say?" from Monday dot com has three actors: - an older black male - a white female - a white male. If you've been watching TV ads over the last few years, can't you basically write the script? 999 chances out of 1000 you'd get it 100% correct. The older black male is the boss, the white female is a super-competent employee, and the white male is an incompetent doofus that the other two mock. No company would ever have the black male or the white female as the doofus: it's almost always a...
  • How much indoor air pollution do we produce when we take a shower?

    02/07/2024 1:51:46 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 49 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 12/17/21 | Gary Fuller
    Chemicals that evaporate from personal care products are among pollutants that form ozone in summer smogs While most news articles on indoor air pollution tend to focus on candles, the air pollution effects of the products that we use in homes are far wider. The fossil-fuel derived chemicals that evaporate from printing inks, adhesives, coatings, cleaning agents and personal care products are now dominating the pollutants that form ozone in summer smogs and some types of particle pollution; exceeding the effects of emissions from traffic.
  • Biden inherited a border that was under control, and then he tore it all down…

    02/07/2024 1:51:21 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    Revolver News ^ | February 6, 2024 | Revolver
    The National Review doesn’t often get things right, but this time they’ve nailed it with their latest take on the US border situation. The Editial Board is making a solid point about how Biden took over a border that was pretty much under control, thanks to Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy and other smart policy moves. But then, what happened? Biden tore the entire thing up. He flipped the script, ditching President Trump’s proven and successful policies, and now, lo and behold, we’re dealing with mass chaos. NR hit the nail on the head this time. Under Joe’s watch, whether...
  • Prince Harry Told 'You're Not Forgiven, Go Home' After Flying To Visit Cancer King Charles (News Video)

    02/07/2024 1:42:49 PM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 100 replies
    Talk TV ^ | 02/07/2024 | Talk TV
    Only spent 30 minutes with his father. William did not even see him. Sent to a hotel instead of spending the night in a royal palace.
  • Psychology study unearths ways to bolster global climate awareness and climate action

    02/07/2024 1:40:17 PM PST · by devane617 · 23 replies
    phys ^ | 02/07/2024
    An international team of scientists has created a tool that can aid in increasing climate awareness and climate action globally by highlighting messaging themes shown to be effective through experimental research. The web-based tool, and the methods undergirding its creation, appear in the journal Science Advances. The tool stems from a study involving nearly 250 researchers that drew more than 59,000 participants from 63 countries, including Algeria, China, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, and the United States. "We tested the effectiveness of different messages aimed at addressing climate change and created a tool that can be deployed by...