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A university hospital in Tokyo says it will soon begin a clinical trial of an anti-parasite drug as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Kitasato University Hospital on Thursday announced plans for testing Ivermectin, which is widely used against parasite-borne infectious diseases. The university's Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Omura Satoshi, won a Nobel prize for discovering a compound that led to the development of Ivermectin. The university hospital says the trial will involve 240 COVID-19 patients aged 20 or over with mild to moderate symptoms. They will be divided into two groups. One will be given Ivermectin, and the other will receive...

In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments, according to current and former U.S. officials. After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said. Trump’s private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip...

Scientists in Houston on Wednesday released a study of more than 5,000 genetic sequences of the coronavirus that reveals the virus’s continual accumulation of mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. Coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are relatively stable as viruses go, because they have a proofreading mechanism as they replicate. But every mutation is a roll of the dice, and with transmission so widespread in the United States — which continues to see tens of thousands of new, confirmed infections daily — the virus has had abundant opportunities to change, potentially with troublesome consequences, said study author...

Bishop Robert Barron, who spearheaded the U.S. bishops' efforts to implement the Pope's changes to the catechism on the death penalty, also spoke at today's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.September 23, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe called on the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast (NCPB) to withdraw their “Christifideles Laici” award from U.S. Attorney General William Barr because of his support for the death penalty. The archdiocese issued a statement last week saying that they are “appalled” that Barr has been given the award “in light of the fact he just recently began executions of federal prisoners.” “Catholic...

New data shows Democrat governors are killing the economies in their states and blaming coronavirus! The link to the government’s data is here. NOTE: The seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate was 8.4 percent in July. Here are ALL of the states which had unemployment rates above 10 percent in the government’s August state-by-state report released on Friday: CA – 11.4 pct. HI – 12.5 pct. IL – 11.0 pct. MA – 11.3 pct. NJ – 10.9 pct. NM – 11.3 pct. NV – 13.2 pct. NY – 12.5 pct. PA – 10.3 pct. RI – 12.8 pct. The governor of...

Devout Catholics swing the other wayWASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - A new research poll shows that self-identified Catholics on the whole favor Biden over Trump for president. An EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research Poll released on Monday finds that the priorities of Catholics, like the greater population, have been affected by the Wuhan virus pandemic and shutdowns. It also concludes a large disparity between cultural Catholics and faithful Catholics. RealClearPolitics' Washington bureau chief Carl M. Cannon noted the trend that the more devout the Catholic is, the more he or she is likely to vote for President Trump. "The most observant Roman Catholics...

September 24 is the feast date in the Orthodox Christian tradition of Peter the Aleut. As one might infer from his sobriquet, Peter the Aleut* — Chukagnak, to call him by the name of his birth — was a North American indigene whose canonization story features cultural collision all the way down. Originally from Kodiak Island, Peter’s soul was won for Christ via the Russian Empire’s eastward expansion across the Bering Strait to Alaska. Come the early 19th century the Russian-American Company that was Moscow’s chartered vehicle in the colonization game had pressed south seeking more favorable climes** with a...

Residents of the city of Miass on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains were surprised to find a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the city park doused with red blood on the morning of September 18. “The figure of the leader of the world proletariat seems to have come out of a horror film” writes newsmiass.ru. The mouth and clothes on the statue were smeared with red paint, and on the pedestal of the monument to Lenin, a man responsible for killing millions of his own people, the word “Killer” was written. Presumably, red paint was used to...

WILSON, N.C. (WNCN) – A 21-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony accessory after the fact in connection with the murder of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant in Wilson. Aolani Takemi Marie Pettit, of Wilson, is in jail under a $250,000 bond. Darius N. Sessoms, 25, of Wilson, was arrested Aug. 10 in Goldsboro. He is charged with first-degree murder. Family members said the 5-year-old boy was riding his bicycle when he was shot and killed along Archers Road on Aug. 9.

Residents reacted with frustration and anger on Wednesday after a Kentucky grand jury indicted a former Louisville police detective involved in the March 13 shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor.

Video speaks for itself. Sure looks like a green screen bit of fakery. https://youtu.be/d2hIkRiWImY

"The white supremacist institution of policing that stole Breonna Taylor’s life from us must be abolished for the safety and well being of our people. #BreonnaTaylor #SayHerName #AbolishThePolice," Kaepernick wrote on Twitter.

During a BLM “peaceful protest” in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 30 (over George Floyd’s dying of a heart attack while in police custody in Minneapolis), James Scurlock was peacefully protesting by breaking into an architecture firm — hoisting an office chair and hurling it into two computer monitors, then ripping a phone from a desk and throwing it against the wall, as his friend shattered another monitor — all of which was captured on video. Nearby, Jake Gardner, an Iraq War veteran and Trump supporter, was keeping watch over the two bars he owned, The Hive and The Gatsby, aided...

...The principle concern of our society is to uphold and defend law abiding citizens, families, and communities. But that will only happen if we refuse to accept or coddle evil behavior, and we obliterate violent displays of Antifa and BLM with the heavy, righteous and just hammer of law and order. Louisville can set an example for the country in the days to come: If our nation wishes to stay happy, prosperous, and safe, rioters must be crushed completely with the full weight of the American justice system. Our civilization will only ever be as strong as our will and...

It dawned on me a few weeks ago that this is no ordinary election. Yes, I know, we hear all the time that “this is the most important election of our lifetime.” Yet this year I think the stakes are higher, not only for the nations but for the parties. That is because I think the party that loses this election ceases to exist in its current form.Take the Republicans—and no, I don’t think Trump will lose, nor do I think the Grand Old Party Elites (GOPe) will lose the senate and is within a handful of seats right now...

Right-wing group the Proud Boys were denied a permit for their planned Saturday rally in Portland, city officials announced Wednesday, citing coronavirus concerns. The proposed rally at Delta Park in north Portland was expected to draw 10,000 Proud Boy supporters. Two concurrent counter protests by left-wing groups were also planned in the city, including one in the same park. Portland Parks & Recreation Bureau said in a statement that the city denied the permit over the estimated size of the rally, which they said would violate coronavirus safety measures. “We must all do our part to fight the spread of...

Dear Friends: 2020 has certainly been quite a year so far, and a defining one for the preparedness movement. No longer are our stockpiles of rice, beans, and hand sanitizer objects that make us strange. Our stashes of TP would make us the envy of the neighborhood if, of course, anybody knew we had it. So many of the things and beliefs that made us figures of mockery in the past are now proving their value. We’re learning, with a mixture of relief and perhaps dismay, that we weren’t so crazy after all. When the first lockdown began, we weren’t...

9/01/12:DEMS: 4,627,929 REPS: 4,173,177 NO PARTY AND MINOR PARTY: 2,782,261 9/01/16:DEMS: 4,733,359 REPS: 4,459,087 NO PARTY AND MINOR PARTY: 3,286,838 9/01/20:DEMS: 5,203,795REPS: 5,020,199NO PARTY AND MINOR PARTY: 3,841,633 CHANGE FROM 9/1/16 TO 9/1/20:DEMS: +470,436REPS: +561,112OTHERS: +554,795

President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to sign an executive order that would require health care providers to provide medical care to all babies born alive as he makes an election-year push to appeal to voters who oppose abortion. The White House did not release further details about the order, but Trump’s announcement follows numerous attempts by GOP lawmakers in Washington and in state capitals around the country to pass legislation that threatens prison for doctors who don’t try to save the life of infants born alive during abortions. Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say the law already provides protections to...

First let me preface by saying I apologize if too much personal info but I didn't know who to ask. My father just got put into the hospital with either bladder/kidney or prostrate issue. They found blood in the urine. They catheterized him but he is still feeling the incredible pressure/pain where he feels he needs to urinate constantly and he hasn't slept for days (driving him crazy). The nurses and doctor say this is normal. When a man gets catheterized do men still continue to feel pressure and pain? With women it takes the pressure away but the doctor...