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Archaeologists discovered in Trnava's Zeleny Kricek settlement hole many decorated ceramics fragments, antler tools and fragments of stone tools older than 6,000 years. ...The discovery is located outside the middle age centre of the town just in front of the town's fortification wall. "Its existence until these days is a matter of lucky circumstances because it was preserved in the narrow area between the wall and filled town ditch," said Peter Grznar of the Regional Monument Board in Trnava, as quoted by the TASR newswire. The finding dates back to the Neolithic Age, more specifically to the era of the...

“Even if the statements at issue — published by third parties named in Page’s first failed lawsuit — could be attributed to Defendants, those statements were substantially true, and thus cannot be defamatory as a matter of law,” the DNC’s attorneys asserted.

Could the old generic malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil, Sanofi-Aventis, among others), which is also used for the treatment of rheumatic disease, be an essential treatment for COVID-19? This hypothesis, put forward by some, including Professor Didier Raoult of the IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, was dismissed by other eminent infectious disease specialists and dismissed as fake news recently by the Ministry of Health. Yet it resurfaced yesterday with the presentation on YouTube by Prof Raoult of positive results in a non-randomised, unblinded trial of 24 patients. This follows encouraging in vitro results obtained by a Chinese team led by Xueting...

“There’s something happenin’ here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” – Not trying to raise alarm here, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that there may be some larger agenda taking place in our society behind the scenes that has not yet risen to the surface. The government’s response to the China Virus, so oversized when compared to its responses to H1N1 and other previous virial plagues, indicates that either we are not being told the entire truth about this current virus, or that something else is driving this train. The manner in which the national media worked in overdrive...

President Donald Trump joked at Thursday’s coronavirus briefing about getting rid of all the reporters he does not like, causing a least one member of the media to characterize the quip as an “attack.” During the briefing, a reporter asked the president if he had “any guidance for Congress” after two congressmen announced they had tested positive for the virus. Trump instead directed his advice, partially tongue-in-cheek, to the reporters in the briefing room.

This is the face of evil. Make no mistake. Led by idiot politicians, the press continues to extol the virtues of of his and China’s response to the Chinese Wuhan virus outbreak. Hillary Clinton is now  the chief lobbyist for the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese collusion! “China stepped up to lead coronavirus response” says one politician. World leaders praise China’s efforts in fighting coronavirusLeaders and officials from various countries have praised China’s efforts in the fight against the novel coronavirus, a health epidemic in the country that has claimed over 560 lives. They have spoken highly of China’s quick response to...

"It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”

Police say a disabled Texas woman shot and killed an intruder and fended off another during an attempted home invasion at her Houston apartment this past week. Citing investigators, KHOU reported that on March 14, two teens attempted to enter the woman’s northwest Houston apartment through a patio door during a brazen, daylight home invasion. After shattering the woman’s glass patio door, one of the would-be intruders then reached inside and attempted to unlock a door, police said. That is when the resident reportedly fired one shot with her firearm — hitting one of the teens. The outlet did not...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

I think it is fair to say that ChiCom Flu data have been gathered for a long enough time to do some statistical analysis. However, I cannot vouch for the validity of data, e.g., China's or Iran's data. But I will run the mortality percentages for some nations and you can draw conclusions on what ever you like. Tell me if the sky is still blue and white if you see that in the data. I am not drawing my own conclusions here. This is just something to think about. 1. China: 4.01% 2. Italy: 8.57% 3. Spain: 5.34% 4....

In the end, this flu season will be of greater interest to social psychologists and social and political historians than to virologists and epidemiologists. Among an innumerate and paranoid population obsessed with its health, and which believes that the role of the government is to solve all problems, it was easy for the media to trigger a panic that would take down the markets and capsize the economy. No public official or CEO can risk being viewed as irresponsible, and the decisions they’ve felt obliged to take have had devastating economic consequences for the majority of Americans. There are two...

"For some time now, we have been in combat against the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. From all that we can tell – and one of the difficulties of the combat is that so much about the pestilence remains unclear – , the battle will yet continue for some time. The virus involved is particularly insidious, for it has a relatively long incubation period – some say 14 days and some say 20 days – and is highly contagious, much more highly contagious than other viruses we have experienced."“We cannot simply accept the determinations of secular governments, which would treat...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow urged television networks not to air White House updates on the coronavirus outbreak, claiming “misinformation” from President Trump will “cost lives.” “I know we ought to be getting used to this kind of thing by now, but I’m not,” Maddow began Friday night. “President Trump today, again, just flat-out wrong in public about this malaria drug that has gotten stuck in his mind, quite some distance from the facts.” The liberal primetime host was referring to Trump’s claim Friday that the drug they’re hoping to use against the coronavirus is “effective,” but Dr. Anthony Fauci of...

It is time for China to consider the requests for help by US states like California and New York in fighting against the deadly coronavirus based on a humanitarian spirit as the infection numbers in the US surged to nearly 20,000 Saturday. Despite Washington's escalating xenophobic slur and hostility toward Beijing by repeatedly calling the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus", states like California and New York, which have had long-term subnational international cooperation with China, are mulling on seeking support from China as some local medics are eager to learn more about China's clinical experiences in treating critically ill patients and...

When the Coronavirus entered most Americans’ radars, the deadly pandemic was largely contained to China. To try to keep the virus from entering America, President Trump on January 31st announced a ban on travel from China to the U.S. The move was almost reflexively panned as “racist,” “xenophobic,” and not in line with science. More than a month and a half later, it’s now widely acknowledged that limiting travel from “cluster” regions is one of the only ways to slow the virus’ rapid spread, and that this travel ban helped the United States gain time to prepare its defenses. Americans...

In times of great crisis, it’s natural and normal for people to ponder and pose any number of questions. Lately, I’ve been asked how an all-powerful God would allow the coronavirus to wreak such havoc clear across the world. This virus has claimed the lives of thousands and ravaged hundreds of thousands more. Many people want to know why God won’t stop it. Where is He in the middle of this global pandemic? Theological questions of this nature have been asked, I suspect, since the beginning of time. Unexplained tragedy, unspeakable suffering and inconceivable circumstances of all kinds have marked...

Several publications on the Internet have been examining the emergency proclamation of 11 March, and emergency proclamation of 16 March by Mayor LaToya Cantrell, of New Orleans, Louisiana. The claim seems to be that Mayor Cantrell is promoting restrictions on the ownership of guns and/or the exercise of Second Amendment rights.  That claim is not justified by Mayor Cantrell's actions. What mayor Cantrell did was to follow the law, nothing less, nothing more.Here is the controversial paragraph in the emergency proclamation issued on 11 March, 2020. The proclamation of 11 March clearly states: Subject to the provisions of ACT 275...

The U.S. has the lowest per capita death rate of this group, tied with Austria, at 0.7 per million, up from 0.3 four days earlier. Italy has the highest mortality rate by far, at 67 per million. It is too early to gauge the ultimate course of the epidemic, but in crude terms it looks as though Italy is heading for a death rate of something like 100 per million. It could easily go higher than that. I don’t think the U.S. will experience a mortality rate anywhere near as high as Italy’s, for a number of reasons including our...

That old Walter Mitty thing doesn't stop for Joe Biden. He was there as vice president at the Parkland shooting. He was shot at in Iraq. He was a coal miner. His chopper was shot down by bin Laden himself over Afghanistan. Always the irrelevant placeholder, dating at least from his Obama years when he had to beg Obama to quit making fun of him, the former vice president and now Democratic frontrunner has now decided to conduct pretend-presidential briefings on the coronavirus crisis to upstage President Trump. According to Fox News: The all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee – in a...

A trillion bucks is a lot of money. The costs of shutting down the economy are larger. California's GDP is essentially zero at the moment. US GDP was about $22 trillion per year before the virus hit, almost $2 trillion per month. Shutting everything down and staying home for a few weeks is a sledgehammer. OK, our leaders have to hit a virus with a sledgehammer when they have nothing else up their sleeve. But it cannot last. Businesses will close, people will lose jobs, the economy will not be there to start up again. Needed fast: a plan to...