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Professor Luc Montagnier, a central member of the team that identified HIV during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, is now bucking the media consensus on the novel coronavirus by claiming the pathogen was at least partially edited in a laboratory. Montagnier revealed his reasoning on a French medical podcast Thursday, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien. According to research performed by Montagnier, a Nobel Prize winner, and his mathematician partner Jean-Claude Perez, SARS-CoV-2 contains sequences of the human immunodeficiency virus — HIV. The medical legend took his claims a step further and asserted his confidence that the...

Paragons of Faith Paulo Uchibori and Sons A glowering, scar-faced volcano named Mount Unzen looms over the Shimabara Peninsula in southwestern Japan. Atop it, bubbling, sulfurous hot springs vomit out white crud and belch acrid steam. They call this place "Unzen Hell." From 1627 onward, the local ruler found the biggest of its caustic, skin-eating pools perfect for torturing Christians.  Arima Harunobu In the hands of the Catholic ruler Arima Harunobu, this peninsula, once known as Arima, had been the Christian bulwark of Japan. In 1612, though, the de facto shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu condemned Harunobu to death and entrusted Arima to Harunobu's...

A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times higher than the what health officials have tallied, and say their data may help better estimate the virus’ true fatality rate. Earlier this month, Stanford University-led researchers tested 3,330 adults and children in Santa Clara County, who were recruited using Facebook ads, for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and found that the population prevalence of COVID-19 in Santa Clara ranged from 2.49 percent to 4.16 percent. ... “This probably aligns with what overall national exposure may be, on order of...

The White House on Friday said that states have enough coronavirus tests to be able to enter the first phase of its plan for reopening the economy. The statement comes as the administration is facing pressure to increase the testing capacity. But officials, including administration health experts, sought to push back on the alarm and express confidence in the testing capabilities, at least for the first phase of reopening. "Our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one if they choose to do so," Vice President Pence told reporters...

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Follow-up to 4 little kittens (Tom, Rose, Pebbles & Simba) being raised by their human mom. Video, 3 minutes & 21 seconds

The COVID-19 pandemic almost certainly began in Wuhan China under an authoritarian Communist regime that is alleged to have covered up the scope of the health crisis. Could the end of the disease, that has now infected close to 2.2 million people and killed nearly 150,000, be credited to India through an anti-malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump?Let’s look at four factors that make the case:The MedicineHindustan Times, an Indian English-language daily newspaper has been told by a government official that India is shipping about 85 million hydroxychloroquine tablets and close to 500 million paracetamol tablets to 108 countries....

My suggestion for restarting the economy. We need to grant immunity to every person, business, governmental agency, from any lawsuit, concerning Covid / flu. Keep the lawyers away.

Rite Aid executives report the pharmacy chain saw a major increase in sales of hydroxychloroquine, the prescription malaria medicine that President Trump has urged Americans to take during the coronavirus pandemic despite some public-health concerns. Rite Aid is not experiencing a shortage of the drug but is closely monitoring supply. Finance chief Matt Schroeder mentioned the increased demand, which he did not quantify, during a Thursday call with analysts to discuss quarterly financial results. Sales of inhalers also are up, he said. For the fourth quarter, the company reported revenue of $5.73 billion and a net loss from continuing operations...

Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration has a message for construction firms that continue to work on nonessential projects during the coronavirus pandemic: Stop building. Or pay the price. In a letter sent Wednesday to Philadelphia’s approximately 6,000 registered contractors, the Department of Licenses and Inspections warned that they could face stop-work orders and $1,000-a-day fines, and lose their licenses if they continue to flout city and state orders to halt most construction to slow the spread of the virus.

A previously unknown church from the major medieval Bulgarian city of Cherven has been discovered and excavated over the past three archaeological seasons, exposing surviving church murals from the 14th century containing a scene with "warrior saints"... Cherven, in today's Ruse District in Northeast Bulgaria, was one of the major urban, religious, and economic centers of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396/1422 AD). While Cherven was one of the largest urban centers in the Second Bulgarian Tsardom (Empire), it has a much longer history, as its area also features remains from an Ancient Thracian settlement, an early Byzantine fortress, as well...

Last week I wrote about a doctor who serves as the medical director of a nursing home in Texas City, Texas testing hydroxychloroquine on a group of elderly patients. The test results are in. It’s good news.Dr. Robin Armstrong faced one of the largest outbreaks in the Houston area when 83 people tested positive for COVID-19 at the 135-bed facility in Galveston County. At the time, I wrote that he was treating 30 patients with hydroxychloroquine. Apparently those numbers have shifted. Now it is being reported that 39 elderly people gave Armstrong permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine. Fifty-six...

[Catholic/Anglican Caucus] Fatima Bishop Mocks Pandemic-as-Punishment Notion Slams faithful prelates as ignorant, fanatic, mad FATIMA, Portugal (ChurchMilitant.com) - The bishop of the diocese of Leiria-Fátima, who oversees the site of Our Lady's 1917 apparitions, is scoffing at orthodox cardinals and those who speak of the pandemic as divine punishment as doing so "out of ignorance, sectarian fanaticism or insanity." Crowd at Fátima witnessing the Miracle of the Sun in 1917 Cardinal Antonio dos Santos Marto insists that the Wuhan virus is instead a wake-up call to "rethink the financial and economic system to achieve more justice and eliminate the flagrant inequality between the world's rich minority and the...

This hasn’t gotten much attention in the U.S. media before now, but one result of the coronavirus outbreak in China has been a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment. It may seem ironic given that the virus first arose in China, but as the number of cases in China has dropped and the number of cases in Europe and the U.S. has increased, many people in China have started to see foreigners as a threat. The Guardian reported on this trend three weeks ago: Over the past few weeks, as Chinese health officials reported new “imported” coronavirus cases almost every day,...

Who's the worst emitter of liberal media bias and Trump hatred on MSNBC? Rachel Maddow? Joy Reid? Fuggedaboutit. When it comes to the most hideous Trump hater on MSNBC, nobody comes close to former Republican, failed McCain campaign official, and Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace, in the opinion of this NewsBuster. On her show Friday afternoon, Wallace accused President Trump of tweeting "like a punk" while people are dying.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Friday accused President Donald Trump of encouraging “illegal and dangerous acts” that could lead to “violence” by calling on states to be liberated from stay-at-home orders implemented due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The US jobs cataclysm is not as terrifying as it looks. Part of it is real; another part is a statistical mirage caused by the enforced shutdown. The 22 million surge in unemployment claims over the past four weeks has nothing in common with any previous recession, let alone the dole trauma of the 1930s. “It is really a good news story. Disaster relief has been well-designed and is working,” says Professor Karen Dynan, assistant US Treasury Secretary in the Obama era and now at Harvard University. Big employers in California – compelled to declare their intentions by state law...

Roger Stone will be interviewed by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday night after a 16-month gag order on the longtime Republican operative was lifted this week, Stone announced in an Instagram post. The appearance on Carlson's prime-time program comes after a federal judge rejected Stone's motion for a new trial on Thursday. Stone, 67, had been sentenced to more than three years in prison in February for lying to Congress and witness tampering. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was appointed by then-President Obama, ruled against the argument by Stone's legal team that one juror was biased...

On January 21st he said “Americans Don't Need To Worry About Coronavirus:https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2020-04-03-watch-dr-fauci-in-january-say-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-coronavirus/ Dr. Fauci said on February 8th: 'Danger of getting coronavirus now is just minusculely low':https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4790996002?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0Ya9M3vvafe86LdWSurxnj4bJF6-bv3G-DHTmFeCwvO_Nk7bvxUflZMswDr. Anthony Fauci on February 29th tells the Today Show that there is NO NEED for the public to change their behavior over concern for Coronavirus:https://www.today.com/video/dr-fauci-on-coronavirus-fears-no-need-to-change-lifestyle-yet-79684677616On March 9th, Dr. Anthony Fauci recommends taking a cruise, tells Forbes Magazine that if you’re healthy, cruise ships are safe:https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/03/09/fauci-says-cruising-is-ok-if-you-are-healthy/amp/There are dozens and dozens more of these, but you get the point. Let’s not kid ourselves, he’s been giving the wrong advice every step of the way.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1250807051636355074 0bama watches the football game with his pro-Trump buddies...