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With rumors about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s deteriorating health and maybe even demise, the world’s eyes are turning to his younger sister Kim Yo Jong as a possible successor to the throne of the Hermit Kingdom. But who is Kim Yo Jong? Why is this reclusive young woman all of a sudden considered a possible replacement for her older brother, even though North Korea has always been a patriarchal society? What is it about this enigmatic 30-something female that has the world talking? Yo Jong first burst onto the world’s radar during the 2018 Winter Olympics, when this...

WARNING: There is some cussing both implied and explicit (to be expected whenever you're talking about celebrities!)

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is ah-live! Maybe. He sent a message giving his appreciation to people building a complex at his father’s hometown on the border of China although state radio didn’t say anything about the 36-year-old’s health. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported no photos of Kim have been published since his vanishing on April 11th amid speculation heart problems either felled or left him comatose. South Korea’s official stance is Kim remains in the realm of the living. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s foreign policy adviser sent a statement to American media saying Kim is “alive...

To calculate excess deaths, the FT has compared deaths from all causes in the weeks of a location’s outbreak in March and April 2020 to the average for the same period between 2015 and 2019. 

Once again, the mantra of Never let a crisis go to waste rears its ugly head as we all try to survive the coronavirus pandemic. This time it is in the charge of homophobia being tossed at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its blood donation guidance. Is it an antiquated and homophobic policy in place by the FDA which rejects blood donations (or plasma) from a gay man if that man has had sex within the last three months? This is the case that Bravo executive producer and television show host Andy Cohen makes after he tried...

Primary Author: David Williams, MD Revised April 23 with updates to section regarding COVID-19 deaths and the addendum.The Truth (and Lies) about CoronavirusThis is being written on April 19, 2020. Although there is a central author, it is being written on behalf of multiple physicians in West Alabama and will be distributed through multiple medical offices. Between us we have well over a hundred years of practice and have treated hundreds of thousands of patients suffering infectious diseases. Including mission trips we have treated patients on five continents. We planned this date for several reasons. First, most of our patients now...

There seems to be some confusion about how we should conduct ourselves during the current pandemic. The video below provides rules that should clear up that confusion. If you have any questions after viewing the video, please send them to Dr. Fauci. https://youtu.be/wVs5AyjzwRM

TITLE: Empirical treatment with Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin for suspected cases of COVID-19 followed-up by telemedicine RESEARCHERS: Rodrigo Barbosa Esper M.D., Ph.D., Rafael Souza da Silva M.D., Fernando Teiichi Costa Oikawa M.D., Ph.D., Marcelo Machado Castro M.D., Alvaro Razuk-Filho M.D., Ph.D., Pedro Benedito Batista Junior M.D., Sergio Wilhelm Lotze M.D., Cleber Nunes da Rocha M.D., Roberto de Sá Cunha Filho M.D., Saulo Emanuel Barbosa de Oliveira M.D, Philipe Leitão Ribeiro, M.D., Valéria Cristina Vigar Martins M.D., Fernando Silva Braga Bueno M.D., Priscila Ligeiro Gonçalves Esper M.D., Eduardo Fagundes Parrillo M. Corresponding Author: Rodrigo Barbosa Esper M.D., Ph.D Avenida Lourenço Marques, n158,...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said it is not the right time to question China's response to the onset of the coronavirus. China has been accused of trying to cover up and spread misinformation about its COVID-19 virus outbreak in a way that escalated the global pandemic. When asked to "respond to the charge" that China covered up the virus during a Sunday interview on CNN, Gates argued that it is not time to be questioning the country. "China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up," he said. "They can...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Nemo Info from here              In March 1965, military working dogs were approved for use in Vietnam. By July 17th, forty teams had been deployed to three bases - Tan Son Nhut, Ben Hoa and DaNang. This was only the beginning, by the end of the year there were 99 dogs in the country. By September 1966 more than 500 dog teams...

[Catholic Caucus] An Empty Apostolic Square: The Wolf Came, the Sheep Scattered It was impossible for us not to think of the empty squares, churches, chapels today with the words of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on this Good Shepherd Sunday. The governmental wolves ordered churches closed, as if they were not essential. The bishops (the "shepherds" in name only) fled, and the sheep scattered and left the field. O tempora!... At that time Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he...

Millions of Americans own an Apple Watch, which commands roughly a 50 percent share of the smartwatch market. Among its many features, the Apple Watch can take your pulse. It also contains hardware to measure your blood-oxygen levels, and it has been doing so since the watch was released—but the hardware is not operable by the watch’s wearer, who thus cannot obtain the results. Under current FDA regulation, the function is disabled. It’s another example of how federal regulation of the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the United States is less focused on stopping viruses and...

The results of Dr. Zelenko's study involving 1450 patients will soon be published in a top journal. Out of the 1450 patients, 405 were given the drug combo of zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin. The results were much better than what was statistically expected.

Two months ago, North Wildwood motel owners Bill and Kathy Crane were preparing in full force for their 19th season in business. They paid for new carpeting for their motel, The Sandpiper, and were beginning heavy cleaning in the rooms. But as the coronavirus spread throughout the region, the Cranes realized opening would be a problem. On Friday, the pair announced the motel would close for the summer of 2020, citing the health safety concerns of guests and staff. “We get people from all over, New York and Canada,” said Bill Crane. “We couldn’t risk something happening over profit. You...

DENVER, Colorado, April 25 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet sent two letters to the Trump Administration about the administration's harmful immigration policies. [...] In the second letter, Bennet called on President Donald Trump to reverse the executive order he issued Wednesday suspending the issuance of green cards to the United States for at least 60 days. [...] "The use of a global public health crisis to promote an anti-immigration agenda...goes against the immigrant tradition upon which this country was built," wrote Bennet in the second letter. [...]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing a legal argument that the United States remains a participant in the Iran nuclear accord that President Trump has renounced, part of an intricate strategy to pressure the United Nations Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Tehran or see far more stringent sanctions reimposed on the country. The strategy has been described in recent days by administration officials as they begin to circulate a new resolution in the Security Council that would bar countries from exporting conventional arms to Iran after the current ban expires in October. Any effort to renew...

More than 300 individuals showed up in about 150 cars to Friday’s noon “Freedom Drive” at the Ventura County Government Center asking, pleading and even demanding that Ventura County Re-Open for business, social, education and religious life.

New Jersey is still “a number of weeks away” from starting to reopen from the near lockdown restrictions to slow the spread the coronavirus, Gov. Phil Murphy said Sunday morning. Murphy also said he is still deciding whether the state will reopen as a whole or whether it could be a regional approach. New Jersey has “suffered an extraordinary toll and loss of life," Murphy said while appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, after the show’s host noted the death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed the combined total number of people in the state who died fighting in Vietnam,...

A note to Atlantic magazine: George Orwell's 1984 wasn't meant to be a how-to guide..... A couple of people writing at The Atlantic magazine see a fantastic silver lining in the current coronavirus outbreak. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods see the pandemic as a great opportunity to bring about more censorship along with surveillance of the public as they exulted on Saturday in "What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet." Just so you would know where they were coming from, the subtitle was "In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the...

Austin Goodrich was part of an antifa group that shut down a College Republicans event at Portland State in 2019. ... Oregon renter who refused to pay rent and his landlord who tracked his coronavirus stimulus check went viral. .... A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, April 22 by tenant Austin Goodrich, 22, of Forest Grove, Ore., nearby Portland, against his property manager and landlord. The lawsuit seeks damages for Goodrich “feeling overwhelmingly violated and vulnerable.” When the story first made national and international headlines, reporters and Goodrich did not disclose that the landlord, Lois Ranstead, is also his grandmother...