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Another new COVID-19 variant has been detected in the US, UK and other countries, according to scientists. The B1525 variant is similar to B117 — the highly contagious strain found in Britain in mid-December that’s since made its way to the US, the Guardian reported. The new variant has popped up in 10 countries so far, including Denmark, the US, Nigeria and Australia. Thirty-two cases have been reported in the UK. No cases of the new mutant have so far been reported in the US.

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Today, December 4, is the feast of Saint Clement of Alexandria who, though little remembered today, was lauded in antiquity for his combination of erudition and sanctity. Theodoret, the Christian historian of the mid-5th century, deemed Clement a man who, "surpassed all others and was a holy man." Saint Jerome included Clement in his work, On Illustrious Men, saying, "he is the author of notable volumes, full of eloquence and learning, both in sacred Scripture and in secular literature." The life of Clement, whose full name was Titus Flavius Clemens, straddled the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD. He...

How a leading corporation knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust. Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust exposed with crystal clarity—backed up with a literal tower of physical documentation—that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination, all under the micromanagement of its celebrated CEO, Thomas Watson, Sr., operating from his New York office on Madison Avenue, and later through European subsidiaries. Without IBM, there would have always been a Holocaust of hundreds of thousands. Einsatzgruppen murder squads and their militia cohorts would still have...

William Shakespeare, thou hast been getting canceled. An increasing number of woke teachers are refusing to study the Bard — accusing his classic works of promoting “misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, and misogynoir.” A slew of English literature teachers told the School Library Journal (SLJ) how they were ditching the likes of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” to instead “make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.” “Shakespeare was a tool used to ‘civilize’ Black and brown people in England’s empire,” insisted Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson, a professor of English at Arizona State University.

Although Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu is facing a long-delayed trial, his party - the Likud - is rising in the polls. Six weeks to Election Day, on March 23, 2021, is a long time in Israeli politics, and it has the potential for many surprises. The discernible trend has been an upward climb for the Likud, which remains the largest party with a wide margin between it and the next party. Netanyahu, moreover, has been polled consistently as the most qualified to serve as prime minister. The Irony about the upcoming election is that it is more than...

Dems fail again - and build a haunting model for years to come. As the overpowering stench of hypocrisy invaded their nostrils, Democrat senators voted for a second time in a year to convict President Donald John Trump, now out of office three weeks, on make-believe charges that sought to criminalize his lawful activities as president. Now that the show trial is complete, we may soon witness an era of presidential impeachments as a regular occurrence in America. "We've opened Pandora's box to future presidents," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said, according to The Blaze. "If you use this model, I...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Feb. 15. The report of the Committee of One from each State to the Peace Conference to-day was presented and ordered printed. The members of the Committee who disagree with the majority, stated at length their objections to the propositions of settlement, but declined making any minority report. Col. SEDDON, of Virginia, Judge RUFFIN, of North Carolina, and Gen. DONIPHAN, of Missouri, refused to sign the report, and it is understood that the delegations from these States will vote against it. Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee will vote for it, and it will probably be adopted by a majority...

At least eleven deaths have been linked to a dangerous winter storm system that's breaking records across the country. Some four million homes and business in Texas were without power early Tuesday as the electric system struggled to meet demand. The record cold snap turned Texas into a tundra. Flurries fell in south Texas, blanketing Galveston's sandy beaches in white. Galveston's city manager warned infrastructure damage caused by the extreme temperatures could rival the cost of a hurricane. Frozen roads sent an 18-wheeler careening out of control near Austin. A man nearly lost his life, jumping out of the way...

The most likely source of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. It is “extremely unlikely” that the virus causing Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but for the World Health Organization there’s more to the story. According to WHO mouthpiece Peter Ben Emerek, the issue does not even warrant further study. “Phew. That’s China off the hook, then,” wrote Miranda Devine of the New York Post. Contrary to Emerek, a food safety and nutrition specialist, not a virologist, the WIV warrants plenty of further study. Consider, for example, recent revelations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “Two Canadian government...

Critical race theory watchdog Christopher F. Rufo reported on Monday that the principal of a New York school sent a list of white identities to white parents so that they could try to convert themselves from white supremacists to white abolitionists. The East Side Community School teacher even included a white supremacism spectrum for parents to self-identify.

China Joe is the most popular President in our history (sarcasm). Over 1 Million people viewed the Trump Parade broadcast yesterday from Palm Beach, Florida. As of Today it was at 1,155,485 views President Trump’s Presidents’ Day Parade: 850K views, 76K Likes, 1K Dislikes 4K comments (pro-Trump) Joe Biden’s Presidents’ Day Speech: 44K views, 1K Likes, 7K Dislikes Comments disabled (same as all Biden White House videos) But Sleepy Joe is the most popular president ever? pic.twitter.com/6v8yF7JRaH — Marco Rojo Aparejador (@Red_Rigger) February 16, 2021 ParlerGabTelegramTwitter

Top conservative lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are launching a legislative blitz against Democrat President Joe Biden, exposing his weakness when it comes to the threat of the Chinese Communist Party and Biden’s coziness with the Communists in Beijing. The effort, led by Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), will consist of a messaging push as well as the introduction and rollout of a series of legislative proposals designed to curb Chinese influence and aggression and expose the Democrats and Biden for being weak on China. Banks and his team detailed the effort for Breitbart...

Levitation of a magnet on top of a superconductor. Credit: Jubobroff, Fbouquet, LPS CC BY-SA 3.0 ============================================================ A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of compounds might never have happened if physicists Qimiao Si and Emilian Nica had chosen a different name for their 2017 model of orbital-selective superconductivity. In a study published last month in npj Quantum Materials, Si of Rice University and Nica of Arizona State University argue that unconventional superconductivity in some iron-based and heavy-fermion materials arises from a general phenomenon called “multiorbital singlet pairing.” In superconductors, electrons form pairs...

On Friday, Andrew Cuomo’s simmering scandal involving his attempts to hide the true cost of the New York Governor forcing nursing homes to take COVID patients last year burst out into the open. It is now clear that an aide to the Democrat tried to obstruct information because it could “be used against us.” We've also learned that the governor undercounted by as much as 50 percent the nursing home deaths. Yet since Friday night, the network morning and evening news shows have only allowed a combined four minutes and 21 seconds of coverage. ABC and CBS only totaled a...

A teen in the UK who compulsively ate her own hair ended up developing a massive hair ball in her stomach that tore a hole through her stomach wall, according to a new report. The oval-shaped hair ball was 19 inches (48 centimeters) long and completely filled her stomach, according to the report, published February 9 in the journal BMJ Case Reports. The 17-year-old initially went to the hospital after she fainted twice, bruising her face and scalp during the falls. Doctors wanted to rule out a head injury, but during an exam, they also noticed a mass in the...

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San Francisco has become a “desolate” city over the past year, as the coronavirus pandemic forced people to work from home — and companies learned to embrace it. A few years ago, as Breitbart News reported in 2016, San Francisco was so crowded with workers, and so expensive to live in, that people would commute from hours away each day to reach the city.

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This is an edited version of a transcript from a seminal interview with John Anthony conducted by Dave Cullen of Computing Forever, uploaded on 1st October 2020. John Anthony’s background in neuro linguistic programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy stands him in excellent stead to see the whole picture. The Full interview can be found here. The Narcissistic Model You can look at it from an individual point of view where you have relationships going on around the country, and you have people who are abusive, and you have victims. On a slightly larger scale, then you have family dynamics, and you...