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Krispy Kreme is catching flack for its latest promotion that offers a free Original Glazed donut to any consumer who shows their COVID vaccination card. Last Monday, the donut chain announced that the offer — which is applicable to any customers that have received at least one of two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — is available at locations nationwide and goes until the end of 2021 without additional purchase. However, many social media users called out Krispy Kreme in the following days and pointed out that obesity...

Pharmaceutical companies have come to the world’s rescue with Covid-19 vaccines, but these days no good deed by business goes unpunished. The Biden Administration is now under pressure to support a political campaign to break vaccine patents. India and South Africa last fall petitioned the World Trade Organization to suspend intellectual property protections on Covid vaccines and treatments, which they say is necessary to expand global access. Fifty-five other countries plus an army of nonprofiits and labor unions have joined the attempted heist. “Multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical companies continue to prioritize profits by protecting their monopolies,” Bernie Sanders says. Adds Connecticut Rep....

Three men have admitted to planning to gun down members of the public in a terrorist attack in Victoria. Ertunc Eriklioglu, his brother Samed and another man, Hanifi Halis, on Friday pleaded guilty to one charge each of conspiring between November 9 and 19, 2018 to buy a firearm in preparation for an attack. Documents released by Victoria's County Court show an attack against members of the public was planned for the 'advancement of Islam through violence'.

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Charles George Info from here. Charles George (August 23, 1932–November 30, 1952) was a U.S. Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat on November 30, 1952, during the Korean War. He was fatally wounded when he threw himself on a grenade to protect other soldiers in his company and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. George was born...

Everyone ages 16 and up will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Texas regardless of occupation or health status starting on Monday, March 29, state health officials said last week. The Texas Department of State Health Services is still asking providers to prioritize appointments for people who are 80 years old or older and to prioritize walk-ins from anyone in that age group who shows up without an appointment. The vaccines are not limited to Texas residents, and citizenship is not a requirement for the vaccine... The state is also launching a website this week for people to sign...

There's been a lot of debate over the decades about giving Statehood to the District of Columbia. After all, is it fair that the people who live there have no voting representation in the U.S. Congress, but still have to pay taxes - thus Taxation without Representation? But making the District another State not only violates the Constitution, but also creates a problem - that of one state hosting, and having power over, the U.S. Capital. There's just no way around the tax thing and representation. The people who chose to live in the District just have to accept this...

“A juvenile suspect was reportedly arrested Saturday afternoon following a manhunt connected to the fatal shooting of a Virginia middle school student. Lucia Bremer was shot multiple times on Friday, forcing a nearby high school in Henrico County, Va., to be placed on a temporary lockdown. The eighth-grader was taken to a hospital where she died of her wounds, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The suspect was reportedly last seen fleeing the shooting before the manhunt began. The suspect, who has not been identified because of his age, was taken into custody at a home about a half-mile from where the...

WASHINGTON - In the viral ad that helped put his underdog campaign on a glide path to victory last summer, Senator Ed Markey cast himself as the Green New Dealmaker, an old hand in vintage sneakers who was agitating for sweeping progress on climate change. “We’ve got to make sure President Biden signs the Green New Deal,” Markey said. “We can’t wait.” Six months later, that isn’t going to happen - not exactly. But Markey and other progressives still insist they are on the cusp of the most consequential environmental legislation in a generation. The Biden administration has indicated that...

Season 10 episode 21 "Diverged"

Along with private technology and travel companies, the Biden administration is working to develop credentials – referred to as passports, health certificates or travel passes – showing proof of vaccination as individuals and businesses emerge from lockdown, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Airline and business groups had been lobbying the White House to take the lead in setting standards for health passes. They believe that would avoid a hodgepodge of regional credentials that could cause confusion among travelers and prevent any single health certificate from being widely accepted. According to the Washington Post, the administration's efforts are housed in offices...

With the costs of the closure of one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries growing by the day, salvage teams hoped on Sunday to take advantage of the full moon and swelling tides to dislodge the giant cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal. Late Saturday, tugboat drivers sounded their horns in celebration of the most visible sign of progress since the ship ran aground late Tuesday: The 220,000-ton Ever Given had moved. Granted, it did not go far — just two degrees, or about 100 feet, according to shipping officials. But that came on top of progress in...

You have to be pretty stupid to opine publicly about the race/ethnicity of a mass shooter before his race/ethnicity is known. You have to be very stupid to base such an opinion on the obviously false claim that mass shooters are “always” of a particular race/ethnicity. And you have to be world-class stupid to risk your professional career on such an assertion. But that’s what Hemal Jhaveri, then the “diversity and inclusion editor at USA Today Sports,” did following last week’s mass shooting in Colorado. She tweeted, “It’s always an angry white man [who does this]. Always.” Unfortunately for Jhaveri’s...

BEAVERTON, OR—Sneaker manufacturer Nike has graciously reached out to the Biden administration with an offer to house thousands of unaccompanied migrant children at their factories around the globe. “Nike is committed to being a good corporate citizen. We are proud to assist the Biden administration by caring for these unaccompanied migrant children,” a spokesman for the company said Friday. “We have plenty of factories all around the globe with lots of room for kids. We’re here to help!” The spokesman said that the migrant children will be fed, clothed, and educated by Nike employees until permanent homes can be found...

@ChadPergram Biden on gun legislation: I'm the one has ever gotten (it) passed, man. Everybody keeps wondering whether I'm serious about dealing with rational gun control. The only gun control legislation ever passed is mine and it's going to happen again.

Explanation: A spacesuit floated away from the International Space Station 15 years ago, but no investigation was conducted. Everyone knew that it was pushed by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1, the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with old clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. Suitsat-1 continued to orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere after a few weeks. Pictured, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed in 2006 just as it drifted away from...

‘Victims? Don’t be melodramatic. Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?’ - Orson Welles as Harry Lime speaking to Joseph Cotton’s character in Carol Reed’s Classic Thriller “The Third Man” (1949) The conversation takes place high atop a Ferris wheel in post WWII Vienna when Harry Lime is confronted by an old friend who has sought him out only to uncover Lime’s evil scheme to sell tainted penicillin on the black market. Lime points out the people moving about down below - 'You see those little dots down there? -...

“There are huge strides being made in aging biology” that point to ways that we can potentially slow the aging process, says Steele, 35, whose research focuses on the ways that the body ages at a cellular level. “We have loads and loads of different ways in the lab to slow down and reverse this process.”

Do you ever wonder why Fascism took so well in Germany and China? Compliant population. That’s cultural. And we don’t have it. Though we’ve been much too nice for too long. So, be American. See, I was in Portugal when checking speed by radar was introduced. The entire extent of their non-compliance. Someone had designed this thing to circumvent enforcement measures. SOMEONE HAD SOLD IT. It was in every catalogue at the time. And the populace GLEEFULLY embraced it. .... Have you ever seen a two year old who doesn’t want to go somewhere being carried by a parent? The...

Truth ought still to be the most important thing in our lives and our politics, but truth is not advanced by assertions taken out of context to affirm a narrative. In a headline clearly designed to prompt outrage, CNN recently claimed that “Sidney Powell argues in new court filing that no reasonable people would believe her election fraud claims.” Similarly, CBS News asserted that “Sidney Powell tells court ‘no reasonable person’ would take her voter fraud claims as fact.” The implication is that Powell, one of the most prominent critics of the 2020 presidential election, who has been outspoken in...

Dr. Shanna Swan, a professor of Environmental Medicine & Public Health at Mount Sinai Health System, has warned in a new book that phthalates, a chemical commonly used in the manufacturing of plastics, can shrink penises and decrease male fertility. A study listed in the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which operates under the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, found that the microplastics used in the manufacturing of Covid face masks contain a number of toxic chemicals, including the penis-shrinking phthalates. Dr. Swans’s book “Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering...