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We now know that it was Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx who persuaded President Trump to kill the economy and force Americans into a lockdownÂ… And we also know they did this based on wildly inaccurate models and predictions. Back in March the two doctors went into the Oval Office and urged President Trump to lock down the economy or 2.2 million Americans would die.Of course, their original mortality predictions were 33 times what has occurred and yet they have not altered their lockdown recommendations to date.In interviews to date the two doctors have been given softball questions....

The extent to which solar activity...varies can be reconstructed using various methods — at least for a certain period of time. Since 1610, for example, there have been reliable records of sunspots covering the Sun; the distribution of radioactive varieties of carbon and beryllium in tree rings and ice cores allows us to draw conclusions about the level of solar activity over the past 9000 years. For this period of time, scientists find regularly recurring fluctuations of comparable strength as during recent decades. A comprehensive catalog containing the rotation periods of thousands of stars has been available only for the...

That same article we read every May, the one where we talk about the record number of travelers who are about to hit the road, the quote from the AAA expert, the mention of gas prices, that article will be different this year. More importantly, underneath the numbers we’ll read are a thousand points of darkness, anecdotes of pain and loss. We’re still not yet fully awake to that reality, we’re still operating in the gap between the economic actions we’ve taken and the true and coming economic fallout. However, to those service industry workers that keep our cities the...

In order to analyze the development and mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic, we naturally look back to the most prominent global pandemic of modern times: the Spanish flu of 1918. The virus wreaked havoc around the world a century ago, leaving tens of millions of dead bodies in its wake, including more than half a million Americans at a time when our population was less than a third of today’s level. While it is reasonable to acknowledge the broad fact that even more lives would have been lost had it not been for social distancing interventions in 1918, as we...

ATLANTA (Gray News) – America’s flu season continues to ebb even as COVID-19 cases increase, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lab-confirmed flu cases are now low, but the CDC believes that’s because fewer people are going to doctors because of the coronavirus outbreak. Overall flu-like activity is lower than a week ago but is still elevated. “The percent of deaths associated with pneumonia and influenza is above the epidemic threshold,” the agency said Friday. “The increase is due to an increase in pneumonia deaths rather than influenza deaths and likely reflects COVID-19 activity.” The severity of...

Hollywood productions, like so much of modern life, are shut down due to the pandemic. No one is yelling “Cut!” or “that’s a wrap” across La La Land. That doesn’t mean current projects are necessarily dead. Most are in hibernation, waiting for the all-clear sign to start anew. “A Higher Loyalty” faces a different challenge. The CBS miniseries, based on the 2018 memoir of former FBI Director James Comey, got the greenlight last year. The series stars Jeff Daniels as Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump. CBS Television Studios isn’t sure whether the miniseries will end up on...

As the bailout-seeking billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker resists lawsuits saying his lockdown order extension exceeds his authority and is unconstitutional, his wife jets to their estate in opened-up Florida to enjoy life without being arrested for leaving the house. Meanwhile Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot keeps barbershops and hair salons closed under penalty of imprisonment as she visits her own hair stylist on the grounds she is “the public face of Illinois” and must look her best. Both deem themselves more important than the people they represent. Laws are for the little people. It’s good to be king and queen...

WASHINGTON -- With COVID-19 cases and deaths mounting daily, the U.S. government has intensified attempts to fan the flames of anti-China rhetoric to divert attention from its direct responsibility for the crisis. The number of COVID-19 deaths in the country reached 66,369 as of Saturday night, with total infections at 1,132,539, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Instead of doing everything they can to save as many Americans as possible, President Donald Trump's administration and its supporters in Congress are working furiously to frame Beijing as the original culprit and use China...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently called the United States government’s coronavirus testing data “bogus” because of testing inequality and slow turnaround, with three to four days to get results. Earlier in the week, President Trump, during a news conference, came under fire from a reporter who claimed that South Korea had tested more people per capita than the U.S. The Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, who was present, defended the president, saying: “I just want to make it clear that South Korea’s testing was 11 per hundred thousand [residents], and we’re at 17 per hundred thousand.” This matches the latest statistics at Worldometers, which maintains...

Why we need art: After Spring Rain under the Tatras - Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1878Because spring, like life, can be sketchy, transient, imperfect and sometimes it rains.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez addressed the accusation of sexual assault against the party's presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, comparing the controversy to another that dogged the party's 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton, which some in the party believe contributed to her defeat in that year's election. "This is like the Hillary emails, because there was nothing there," Perez told ABC's "This Week" referring to the former secretary of state's criticized use of a private email server as he addressed an allegation of sexual assault from Tara Reade, a former staffer who served in Biden’s Washington Senate office for a...

COVID 19 Continental US Counties with Greater than 16 Cases per 1000 Population Count: 23 Possible Factors Correctional Facilities: 6 Meat Processing Facilities: 11 Unknown: 6 Region: Lincoln County AR Population: 14134 Percent Rural: 100% Rural Density: 25 psm Factors: Correctional Facility Source: https://www.cityofharrison.com/39787_1 Region: Logan County CO Population: 22709 Percent Rural: 29% Rural Density: 3 psm Percent Urban: 71% Urban Density: 2681 psm Factors: Correctional Facility Source: https://www.nchd.org/co Region: Sussex County DE Population: 197145 Percent Rural: 41% Rural Density: 99 psm Percent Urban: 59% Urban Density: 1015 psm Factors: Poultry Processing Facilities Source: https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/surge-in-sussex-county-causes-delawares-coronavirus-cases-to-top-4-000/article_8bdfdc90-cfdd-55b2-863a-b4a2ea875da4.html Region: Dallas County IA Population:...

It's next to impossible to turn on the TV and not see another story declaring with utmost certitude that President Trump is a racist.  For 14 years, NBC made Trump the host of its prime-time television series, The Apprentice, something the network would never have done had there been even a hint of racism in his past. Trump was a high-profile real estate developer in New York City, one of the most liberal jurisdictions in America.  Had he been infected with racism, he would have faced insurmountable hurdles getting his projects approved. Before running for president, Trump donated $1.5 million to high-profile Democrat...

Tom Ridge is upset with the protestors.

WASHINGTON - The streaming video began and, within minutes, the president’s eldest son was musing that Osama bin Laden had endorsed Joe Biden. Subtle, it was not. Welcome to the Trump campaign, digital edition. Seven nights a week, President Donald Trump’s reelection team is airing live programming online to replace his trademark rallies made impossible for now by the coronavirus pandemic. Hosted by top campaign officials, prominent Republicans and “Make America Great Again” luminaries, the freewheeling shows offer reality according to Trump. The shows are an effort to stay connected with core supporters and maintain enthusiasm for a suspended campaign...

TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. (WMBD) — The Tazewell County Sheriff Department will not enforce the mandated stay-at-home executive order. Tazewell County Sheriff Jeff Lower says he has heard from numerous concerned people asking about the governor’s current executive order. Lower tells us his office will not arrest people for trying to live their daily lives. In an email sent to an unknown recipient Thursday, Sheriff Jeffrey Lower wrote that his primary focus is to protect the citizens of Tazewell and their constitutional rights. The email states Lower believes Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is “over-reaching” his powers. Tazewell County Sheriff Jeff Lower...

Hillary Clinton recently shared a picture of herself wearing a face mask on Twitter. The black mask featured the word “vote” on it, but that was easily blacked out. Then other Twitter users got busy with Photoshop.

During October 1918, Omahans had chafed under restrictions that had closed churches, schools, movie houses, theaters and public gatherings, and had banned parades and large meetings. Already 442 people had died from the lung-clogging influenza... So there was relief and excitement when Omaha Health Commissioner E.T. Manning and the State Board of Health announced that most restrictions would be lifted Saturday, Nov. 1. Within a week, Manning threatened to restrict gatherings again after 30 cases and 11 deaths were reported in one day. That heralded a “double hump” in flu cases, which surged after a massive Armistice Day celebration Nov....

Thousands of  desperate  migrants are trapped in limbo and even at risk of death without food, water or shelter in scorching deserts and at sea, as  governments close off borders and ports amid the coronavirus pandemic. Migrants have been dropped by the truckload in the Sahara Desert or bused to Mexico’s desolate border with Guatemala and beyond. They are drifting in the Mediterranean Sea after European and Libyan authorities declared their ports unsafe. Many governments have declared emergencies, saying a public health crisis like the coronavirus pandemic requires extraordinary measures. However, these measures are just the latest efforts by governments...

Almighty God LOVES you with a PERFECT and ETERNAL LOVE which transcends the limited confines of this little temporal world. (Rom. 10:4, 1 John 2:2, 4:10). My friend, I do not know how to say anything more wonderful than that! If you are a SLAVE to this world's vices and fleshly addictions (homosexual or heterosexual) and are zealous for its approval and acceptance, I pray you to let go of your vices and self-destructive will and ways and turn to and serve the One who so LOVED you and gave Himself for you (John 3:16-17). The Lord Jesus delivers ALL...