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It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-27/increase-coronavirus-cases-fourth-surge Good news is bad news, apparently, for federal officials - the reduction in Coronavirus cases is going to let our guard down against a rising number of variants. They actually call the reduction of Coronavirus cases “troubling numbers”. These bureaucrats want to keep their fear-based job. Their livelihoods are based on fear. This is true for the government officials and the media reporting their fear. - https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/health/coronavirus/covid-outbreak-at-leeds-jail-hmp-wealstun-means-prisoners-kept-in-ridiculous-conditions-3148831?itm_source=parsely-api https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/coronavirus-california-detention-custody?utm_term=ec58b6bb4570c067be8e103de84e914f&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email Links above relate to Coronavirus’ impact on conditions in prisons and youth prisons in US and UK. This is mostly reported by only the UK press...

If you’re a Democrat, you have to be thinking about a Harris/Cheney ticket in 2024 because the * administration is a complete disaster. And not just on policy. Obama‘s administration was a policy disaster, but it was at least a competently implemented disaster. The Zombie Administration is a disaster in both form and substance. What has this desiccated, old weirdo achieved in his six weeks of semiconsciousness in the Oval Office? Well, there’s putting tens of thousands of Americans out of jobs, including union guys who voted for him. There’s telling the American people that their kids can’t go to...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemLambs, Sheep, and ShepherdsHosea 6Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. 3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”New...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although it may feel like North Carolina hit a crucial benchmark in returning to normalcy from COVID-19 this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci is voicing concern for states that have pulled back on regulating limits on social life. In an interview with "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised caution for what he feels is prematurely lifting restrictions among some states. North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia all eased major restrictions on Friday, as did Massachusetts, Arkansas and Wyoming. Several other states eased some level of...

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Democrats in the House Rules Committee on Friday voted against an amendment by Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) that would prevent any American taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief dollars from going to the Chinese Communist Party. His amendment would have barred any of the $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief bill funds from being made available to “any enterprise, agency, instrumentality owned by the Government of the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party.” Barr said when he introduced his amendment to the Democrat-controlled committee: The coronavirus, as you know, started in China. It was made worse by the Chinese Communist Party...

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March 01 2021 Saint David of Wales Sr. David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK Lectionary 230Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingDaniel 9:4-10 ©Yours is the integrity, Lord; ours the shameO Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your commandments and your ordinances and turned away from them. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and to all...

The drills will take place west of the Leizhou Peninsula and will run from Monday until the end the month. The area will be closed off to all other vessels, according to a notice posted on the website of China's Maritime Safety Administration. The new exercises appear to be a response to increased US military activity in the region over recent weeks and months. Monitoring data provided by a Beijing think tank showed that the US has just carried out a number of surveillance missions over the last week. The South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI) said that...

A New Albany, Ohio, music school offering piano, guitar and violin lessons racked up under nearly $1 million in loans and $35,000 in credit card debt. A fine dining restaurant in Providence, R.I., received more than $450,000 in federal small-business funds to help pay workers but still had to close its doors. A nonprofit overseeing the Kit Carson Home and Museum in Taos, N.M., welcomes visitors to learn about the famous frontiersman but listed just $17,000 in assets even after every bone-handled knife, buffalo hide apron and flintlock musket had been tallied. Nearly a year since coronavirus-related shutdowns began affecting...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday he will propose a ‘Bracero’ style immigrant labor program to U.S. President Joe Biden ...

A citizens’ council on climate met for the last time over the weekend to finalise proposals on climate change laws aimed at rapidly transitioning to a greener economy and enshrining the fight for climate change in the French constitution. While some view President Emmanuel Macron’s citizens' panel as a welcome precedent and a model for more direct democracy, others say it has been fraught with disappointment and frustration. After nine months of research and rigorous debate, some acrimonious, the Citizens’ Council on Climate (CCC) met virtually for a three-day conference starting Friday to prepare its final submission to the French...

Elsevier Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Volume 882, 1 February 2021, 115024 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Electrolytic co-deposition neutron production measured by bubble detectors Author Phillip J.Smith , Bruce M.Steinetz https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115024 Highlights • Bubble detector neutron dosimeters measured electrochemical cell neutron activity • Case control: PdCl2/LiCl/D20 cells were compared with CuCl2/LiCl/D20 control cells • Experimental cells exhibited neutron activity greater than controls: 99% confidence • Highest neutron-generating experimental cells produced dendritic cathode deposits • Neutron activity cannot be explained by chemical reactions, only nuclear processes Abstract Co-deposition electrochemical cells are a simple means to examine novel nuclear reactions. In this study,...

Donald Trump formally anoints himself the head of the Republican party at today’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Gilt-y: golden Trump statue pops up at rightwing CPAC summit Read more The Grand Old Party, founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin, is now dead. What’s left is a dwindling number of elected officials who have stood up to Trump but are now being purged. Even Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s popularity has dropped 29 points among Kentucky Republicans since he broke with Trump. In its place is the Trump party, whose major goal is to advance Trump’s big lie that the 2020...

“For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck” (Proverbs 1:9).

Who cares? I'm only posting this because of one of their "Best" Moments Best: Jane Fonda While the mid-ceremony montages and career-achievement award presentations can often feel like filler, this year’s Jane Fonda tribute and career montage hit the perfect note — as did her speech when she was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. “Art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way — so let’s be leaders,” she said. With a newly silver coif (joining the likes of Ben Stiller), she also showed up in person; a welcome sight...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

Parent groups are crying "hypocrisy" after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool. Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the "gold standard" for the teachers he represents — saying Berkeley schools should only reopen to in-person learning when educators are vaccinated, among other criteria. A tentative plan between the Berkeley Unified School District and Berkeley Federation of Teachers in mid-February would see preschoolers through second grade returning to class at the end of March and other grades staggering...

Irv Cross, a key member of The NFL Today and CBS Sports for more than two decades following a career as a player and coach, died Sunday near his home in Roseville, Minn. He was 81. Previously diagnosed with mild cognitive dementia, Cross told the Philadelphia Inquirer two years ago that he intended to donate his brain to Boston University researchers so they could study it for CTE, the brain disease that has plagued many former NFL players. It has been linked to concussions and repeated blows to the head. Cross played for Ara Parseghian at Northwestern from 1958-1960 then...