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By now you may have heard about the shocking new Danish “translation” of the Bible that virtually wipes out “Israel” from the New Testament. Well, the truth is actually worse than the headlines, since the Danish Bible Society is downplaying the seriousness of its actions. First, the simple facts: whereas in the Greek New Testament, the word “Israel” occurs more than 60 times, it is found only once in the new Danish version called Bibelen 2020. That’s right, just once, and at that, simply because it is a direct quote from an Old Testament verse. Otherwise, “Israel” is gone. In...

The Wuhan's Institute of Virology has removed photographs of scientists working in its laboratories and edited out references to visits by US diplomats The edited material includes a page of the institute's website showing pictures of staff entering caves to take swabs from bats carrying coronaviruses As a result of one diplomat's visit, cables were sent to the US State Department from the embassy warning about the risks of the bat experiments

The mad scramble to avoid COVID-19 – stay at home, close businesses, schools and churches, wear masks, avoid crowds, social distance – and, at the same time, the frantic efforts to develop a vaccine to protect people from the virus, is virtually all we have been exposed to via the media for weeks. Are we tired of it yet? How are they reacting to threats of arrest and fines for any violations of the new government restrictions on their activities? So far, it doesn't look good – and if the rules get even stricter, there will be a revolt. It...

This was quietly posted at the CDC on May 1st. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Homeowner’s Associations (HOAs) are petty tyrannies but at least they’re voluntary ones. You freely sign up to be told what kinds of shrubs or flowers you’ll be allowed to plant in “your” front yard; what type of vehicle you’ll be permitted to park in “your” driveway - and the exact shade of paint that’s acceptable to use on your mailbox. You must beg permission – and get approval – for everything and you can be hit with punishing fines if you don't, ahead of time, even if the shrub is the "right" variety and the paint the exact same shade...

A restaurant opened for dine-in service Friday in El Dorado County, California, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place orders meant to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/6alhP85Padk “I will not survive another month. This place is my livelihood and it’s being taken away from me,” Café El Dorado owner Cherie Baldridge told the Mountain Democrat. Two months behind in rent and facing insolvency, Baldridge and her two employees realized that opening up was their last resort.

Over a dozen potential COVID-19 vaccines are currently under development that could be candidates for a Trump administration program to fast-track for widespread inoculation by January 2021, senior officials within the administration told NBC News. The program, known as "Operation Warp Speed" whittled down 14 candidates from a pool 93 potential vaccines several weeks ago. According to officials, those 14 vaccine candidates will undergo testing to further whittle down the number of vaccines to six or eight. This batch of candidates will make it to next rounds of clinical trials. From there, health experts are looking to weed out faulty...

Why is the Department of Defense harassing a Navy SEAL for telling the story of Cairo, the dog he trained and cornered Bin Laden on the raid into Pakistan? Will Chesney, a 13-year Navy SEAL veteran who served as both an assaulter and dog handler, recently co-authored “No Ordinary Dog: My Partner From the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid” alongside journalist Joe Layden. The book tells the true story of Chesney’s military working dog, Cairo, and their career together through training, combat, and retirement. St. Martin’s Press published the much-anticipated memoir on April 21, 2020. It became an...

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, on Sunday, said that the rate of growth of new Covid-19 cases has been steadying for a while, and the recovery rate is improving. He also added that India is “on the path of success and will win the war against the pandemic”. He said around 10,000 Covid-19 patients have recovered so far. “The recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has steadily increased, which shows that more and more of these patients are getting better and going back home,” he said. Steadying rate of growth “The rate of growth of new cases has also been...

Looking at a America, as I do, from a long way away, looking from a nation which calls itself Down Under, I see freedom. Maybe I am wrong. This little collage is an attempt to show poetically the sense of wonder with which I look at America.

Angry demonstrators, many unmasked, crammed toward the state Capitol demanding Gov. Gavin Newsom loosen or lift restrictions designed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The bigger risk for Newsom: losing buy-in from local officials to make his edicts relevant up and down this diverse state.

... Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told CNN that she dismisses allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden, saying "there is not a pattern" of abuse with Biden. When asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper whether this position was hypocritical considering how Democrats treated similar allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Wittmer said: "not every claim is equal." JAKE TAPPER, CNN: You said you believe Vice President Biden. I want to compare that to 2018 when you said you believed Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford after she accused now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of assault. (snip) GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER: Jake, as a survivor, and...

DAR ES SALAAM - Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli on Sunday, because he said they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw. Magufuli, whose government has already drawn criticism for being secretive about the coronavirus outbreak and has previously asked Tanzanians to pray the coronavirus away, said the kits had “technical errors”. The COVID-19 testing kits had been imported from abroad, Magufuli said during an event in Chato in the north west of Tanzania, although he did not give further details. The president said he...

COVID-19 damages the hemoglobin, impairing the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen throughout the body, compromising the lungs and resulting in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Italian pharmacology scholar Annalisa Chiusolo explained to The Jerusalem Post. If her thesis is correct, it would resolve many outstanding questions about the novel coronavirus, such as the greater vulnerability of men – specifically male diabetics – to become seriously ill from the virus, as well as the lower rate at which pregnant women and children contract COVID-19. Moreover, understanding this mechanism could lead the way to a quicker discovery of the...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. CHARLESTON, Wednesday, May 2. GILMORE's Brass Band made every one homesick this mornning, at the opening of the Convention, by playing "Home, Sweet Home." Mr. FLOURNOY, of Arkansas, after it had got through, jumped upon a chair and called at the top of his voice for three cheers for the Union. All present, ladies included, responded heartily. Then our drooping spirits were revived by "Hail Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle."

As Europe and North America continue suffering their steady economic and social decline as a direct result of imposing ‘lockdown’ on their populations, other countries have taken a different approach to dealing with the coronavirus threat. You wouldn’t know it by listening to western politicians or mainstream media stenographers, there are also nonlockdown countries. They are led by Sweden, Iceland, Belarus, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Surprisingly to some, their results have been as good or better than the lockdown countries, but without having to endure the socio-economic chaos we are now witnessing across the world. For this reason alone,...

A call by former President George W. Bush for humanity to jettison partisanship amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has drawn a sharp rebuke from President Donald Trump. Bush published a video message on Saturday urging unity and togetherness amid the coronavirus’ outbreak, which received 4.4 million views on Twitter as of Sunday morning. Bush’s plea amounted to a call for people to ignore partisanship to protect the most vulnerable and to assist those who have become unemployed. (snip) The president’s (Trump's) response was straight to the point, outlining Bush’s absence when Trump was being excoriated during his impeachment proceedings. “.@PeteHegseth...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened residents who are ignoring the government's stay-at-home orders with citations and arrests.Lightfoot said gatherings of between 50 and 150 people were broke up by Chicago police after a tip-off on Saturday, according to ABC 7.During a press conference on Saturday, Lightfoot warned:

A Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house, an attorney for the 21-year-old man’s family said on Friday. The man’s girlfriend was also wounded. The Montgomery county police department said in a news release Duncan Socrates Lemp “confronted” police and was shot by one of the officers early on Thursday. But Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp’s relatives, said an eyewitness gave a “completely contrary” account of the shooting. She said police could have “absolutely no justification” for shooting Lemp based on what...

The thought just occurred to me, how many people have been deliberately infected by someone in hopes that they would die to rid themselves of said individual for a variety of reasons? Could someone have infected someone from work that had enraged them? Could someone have infected a spouse for a more efficient resolution of problems than divorce? Could someone have infected someone to hasten an inheritance? The possibilities are almost endless. What are Democrats and the media doing to protect us from this? Talk about the perfect crime.