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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci clashed over whether people need to continue wearing masks due to the CCP virus. “You’re telling everyone to wear a mask,” Paul said. “If we’re not spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater? You have the vaccine and you’re wearing two masks, isn’t that theater?” Fauci then accused Paul of engaging in “theater” and stated that emerging COVID-19 variants are a good reason “for a mask.” “You’re making policy based on conjecture,” Paul said, saying that Fauci wants people to wear masks “for another couple of years.” In recent...

Russian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, business partner of Paul Manafort, ex-head of the campaign headquarters of 45th U.S. President Donald Trump (2017-2021), tried to influence the U.S. elections and damage the ties between the United States and Ukraine. The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine said on its Twitter that he acted in concert with non-factional MP of Ukraine Andriy Derkach, against whom the U.S. imposed sanctions in September 2020 for trying to influence the U.S. presidential elections in 2020, as well as others, associated with Russian intelligence. "Russian influence agent Konstantin Kilimnik is wanted in the United States for obstruction of justice....

Overall, exercise equipment as a category can be particularly dangerous for children: 25,000 kids under the age of 10 are injured by exercise equipment each year, according to a 2014 study from the US National Institutes of Health. In 2019, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates U.S. emergency departments treated 2,000 treadmill-related injuries in children under 8. Peloton (PTON) said in a statement to CNN Business that there are "no words to express the shock and sadness everyone at Peloton feels as a result of this terrible tragedy." The company won't be disclosing any additional information about the incident "out...

Secretary of Defense Austin announced today a surge of 15,000 troops from the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force to combat the ignominious defeat of the Pentagon by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson caused the humiliating defeat of a battalion of paid liars from the Pentagon. The battalion turned tail and broke ranks when faced with a withering attack of truth. Austin is augmenting the surge force with lawyers, former White House paid liars, DNC propagandists, pregnant flight attendants, Hunter Biden, and a mix of misfits and fools from Congressional staff. This force is ready for a successful attack on Tucker...

President Joe Biden's recent criticism of his Russian counterpart did not remain unanswered. Reuters came up with a story of how the two leaders traded poisonous remarks. As is known, in his recent interview, the U.S. President said he believed Putin was a killer. "Biden also described Putin as having no soul, and said he would pay a price for alleged Russian meddling in the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, something the Kremlin denies", reads the article. When addressing Biden's statement, the Russian leader said the following: "I remember in my childhood, when we argued in the courtyard with each...

The U.S. Army rejected an appeal to reinstate military service decorations and a Special Forces Tab for retired Maj. Matthew Golsteyn. Golsteyn faced murder charges for killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker in 2010 but President Donald Trump pardoned him of the charge before his case went to trial.“The Army Board for Correction of Military Records, the service’s highest level of administrative review for personnel actions, has considered and denied Matthew Golsteyn’s application,” Army spokesman Lt. Col Gabriel J. Ramirez told American Military News on Thursday. “Privacy laws prevent the Army from disclosing specific information regarding the Board’s decision.”Golsteyn’s decorations included...

The Romans Road is an oldie-goldie gospel tract that has been around for decades. I mail 'em out to people at random {amazon has them} This tract is called The Romans Road because all the Bible verses are taken from the New Testament book of Romans and there are 6 of them and they say this: {1} Everyone Needs Salvation --Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." {2} Jesus Died For Our Salvation -- Romans 5:8 "God demonstrates His love towards us, in that, while we were sinners, Christ died for us." {3}...

Before Illinois residents can return to what Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls a “new normal,” he says 7-in-10 residents 65 and older must get a COVID-19 vaccination. Pritzker appeared in Chicago on Thursday to announce the requirements the state must meet before he will remove his restrictions on businesses and crowd capacities. “It’s time to cautiously move toward normalcy,” he said. “It’s imperative that we do so in a way that maintains all the progress we’ve made to date.” Notably, Pritzker said 70% of the state’s 65 and older residents must get vaccinated. “I’m optimistic about reaching that milestone because, as...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki used the phrase "crisis on the border" during the briefing on Thursday -- a notable choice of words after the administration has avoided describing the situation that way. She later seemed to walk it back when reporters asked if her phrasing was indicative of a change in how the White House viewed the situation. She reverted back to using the phrase "challenges at the border" and maintained there is no change in administration messaging. During the White House press briefing Thursday, Psaki was asked about lending doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico and...

Asian-Americans are buying guns to protect themselves amid a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. “There are more Asians being introduced to firearms,” said Jimmy Gong, the owner of Jimmy’s Sport Shop in Mineola, New York. “Before, there was never gun culture in the Asian community. But after the pandemic and all the hate crime going on, there are more Asians buying guns to defend themselves.” Gong said that his gun sales have doubled during the pandemic, and about half of his business comes from Asian-Americans, who also buy lots of pepper spray. ---SNIP--- “They’re coming...

LONDON — The European Union’s drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t increase the overall incidence of blood clots and that the benefits of using it outweigh the possible risks, paving the way for European countries to resume dispensing the shots. France, Italy and Germany promptly announced they will start using the vaccine again on Friday. Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands said they will do so next week, though Spain said it might exclude certain groups to minimize any danger. More than a dozen nations around the world had suspended their use of the vaccine over the...

[Subject Line]: A new simulation suggests that by 2030, multimorbidity in people with HIV will rise substantially. Good health for people aging with HIV will require health care providers to target diabetes, heart disease, anxiety and chronic kidney disease management to this population, especially HIV-positive gay and bisexual men and Latinos. These are the projections of the ProjEcting Age, multimorbidity, and PoLypharmacy (PEARL) simulation model, presented by Parastu Kasaie, PhD, assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

The college recently recognized the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine Skidmore College’s student government refused to recognize a progressive, pro-Israel student group due to its "troublesome" perspective despite recently recognizing the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine. The Skidmore College Student Government Association denied Progressive Zionists for Peace’s request for a club trial period in a Zoom meeting on March 13. The organization’s leaders were told the group would need to "gain more diverse perspectives" before receiving official club status. Student senator Sarah Baker said a "dialogue focused" group with "one perspective" could be "troublesome." In its request for...

"What studies do you have that people who have had the vaccine or had infection are spreading the infection? If we’re not spreading the infection isn’t it just theater? You’ve had the vaccine and you’re wearing 2 masks isn’t that theater?" Paul continued. "Here we go again with the theater, let’s get down to the facts," Fauci shot back. "When you talk about reinfection and you don't keep in the concept of variants, that's an entirely different ballgame. That’s a good reason for a mask," he said. Fauci pointed to a South African study by Johnson and Johnson that found...

Saint Patrick. The legend, the lore of a great story, the edge of an epic: As a young man Patrick was stolen from his home in Britain by Irish raiders. At age sixteen he was sold into slavery in Ireland to a druid priest. He saw the pagan worship of the Celtic traditions, how when the sun was at its lowest zenith and the moon began to wane in November they would wear masks as they drove their excess cattle, which were sure to starve over winter, over the edge of the cliffs. Meat and Hides and other useful parts...

The first time that the word Hebrew is used in the Bible is in Genesis 14:13 where Abraham is called a Hebrew. In the Hebrew language the word “Hebrew” is written עברי (Ivrie) and the root letters are used to mean, cross over. Abraham whose name originally was Abram, or in Hebrew Avram (which means exalted father), being called out of his own land by God, crossed over Euphrates into a land which God promised to give to him and his seed as an inheritance forever. There, God also promised to make him a father of many nations. God also...

Legal Insurrection reports that 21 states are suing to block Joe Biden’s executive order that halted the Keystone XL pipeline.Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 19 other state attorneys general filed suit today in United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to block President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and illegitimate attempt to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXLP).Despite several exhaustive studies undertaken by the Obama State Department that concluded the Keystone XL pipeline would boost the U.S economy, create American jobs, and safely transport oil throughout the country without increasing greenhouse gas emissions,...

Link to the CDC's VAERS DatabaseIf you decide to search VAERS yourself, click VAERS Data Search (shown) and "I AGREE" at the bottom of the page.I will give a few examples of searches below followed by screen images to show how to perform the searches. The data below show that death rates for the Covid19 vaccines are ranked #2 and #3 out of the 93 vaccines listed in the VAERs.Covid19 vaccines are #1 and #3 out of 93 vaccines in terms of requiring ER visits. So if you or loved ones choose to get it, hopefully you can 'score' a...

“There’s no such thing as learning loss,” writes Rachael Gabriel, an education professor, in Valerie Strauss’s Washington Post column. “Corona kids” are learning valuable things while out of school, she argues. There’s no need for them to “catch up.”Learning is never lost, though it may not always be “found” on pre-written tests of pre-specified knowledge or preexisting measures of pre-coronavirus notions of achievement.Gabriel sees schools as “an access point for things like books, daytime supervision of children, nutrition, therapeutic services, and sometimes health care,” but argues it’s “a myth that families must rely on school for learning to occur.” If...

The creative boss of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hiroshi Sasaki, has resigned after making controversial remarks about hugely popular Japanese entertainer Naomi Watanabe, suggesting that she could appear as an 'Olympig'. Sasaki, who was the chief creative director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics, said Watanabe could be asked to wear pig ears at the Games curtain-raiser. He raised the idea last year in a group chat, but his suggestion was immediately rejected by his colleagues involved in the Olympics preparation process. Weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported Sasaki’s remarks on Wednesday, prompting the official to...