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Allen was thrilled when she was able to book an appointment for the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Javits Center on March 10. The sprawling convention space had just received new shipments of vaccine and was jabbing New Yorkers around the clock — Allen’s appointment was at 2 a.m. As a wine and spirits distributor, she was able to get a coveted early spot even while vaccines remained unavailable to most New Yorkers. Though she experienced a brief fever the next day, her side effects from the jab quickly resolved. Even after Allen was vaccinated, she was careful...

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CDC stands for Centers for Disease Control. That’s supposed to be the job of that particular federal agency: controlling disease. But in 2021 America, doing the job that your agency was created to do isn’t enough. Now the CDC’s job is to take the money we’re forced to give them, by federal law, and use it to scold us for things we may or may not have done. Now their job is to call us all racists, because otherwise journalists and other Democratic Party activists will keep yelling at them. The last time I paid any attention to CDC Director...

50 heavily armed police just raided the hotel where our Rebel News reporters were staying in Montreal. I told them they couldn’t come in without a search warrant. So instead they manhandled me. They handcuffed Keean Bexte. And They just put David Menzies in the back of a police car.. Police have sealed off the AirBnb we were staying in with police tape — they say it’s a “crime scene”. Of course it’s not. In fact, when we asked them what the “crime” was, all they could come up with was that our staying in the hotel was an illegal...

Experiments that create tiny brainlike structures from human stem cells or transplant human cells into an animal’s brain have made some scientists, ethicists, and religious leaders uneasy in recent years. And the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has restricted some of this research. Now, a U.S. scientific panel has weighed in with advice about how to oversee this controversial and fast-moving area of neuroscience. The report was requested by NIH, together with the Dana Foundation, which funds neuroscience research. It arrives as NIH ponders whether to lift a moratorium on funding chimera experiments—studies that create animals carrying human tissues or...

Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones on Wednesday announced via social media that his father, Alvin Jones Sr., with whom he had a close relationship, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 57. -snip- Both of Jones’ parents served in the Army, and Aaron and his twin brother, Alvin Jr. (who played with the Baltimore Ravens in 2018 and 2019), spent the majority of their lives in El Paso, Texas, while their parents were stationed at Fort Bliss. Aaron would often join his father at physical training sessions, and he volunteered at a number of youth military events. -snip-...

Doctor's choice trumps patient's life Bp. Michael Olson: "The inherent dignity of human life requires that we not cling to this life." Texas bishops on Wednesday used the authority of the Catholic Church to justify robbing vital health decisions from patients or their families. Michael Olson, bishop of Fort Worth, testified at the Texas capitol in favor of placing treatment decisions [solely] into the hands of doctors and a so-called qualified third-party surrogate. During his testimony, Olson made a false comparison between choosing life and becoming transgender. Bp. Olson: "It's not unlike a patient that comes in and demands hormonal...

It's almost embarrassing to watch the lengths to which WWMT television news reporter Trisha McCauley will go to preserve her job security in this era of cancel culture when raising the ire of social justice warriors can easily destroy your career. Therefore McCauley had to perform the unenviable task of pretending that there was still a hate crime that happened at Albion College in Michigan even though it was proven to have been a hoax since the perp turned out to be a "student of color."Here is McCauley going through the motions of the pretense in her report about a...

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Today BLM-Antifa members are protesting police involvement in evictions, according to local media. “Multiple women who say they’ve been illegally evicted by their landlords with Detroit police offers will give speeches,” one outlet reported. “Representatives with the Detroit Police Department said their policy is for officers to not assist landlords in evictions. However, activists are saying that has happened repeatedly over the years.” Marchers chanted, “Black homes are under attack, tell me what do we do, rise up fight back!” But what was no reported today is that the “idea” called Antifa and the “peaceful” protesters called BLM violently attack...

Count Vlad has written an original song called "One and Only" and has got his old friend Ghoul Boy to sing it. This is an alternative take on the video/song. If you like it, please subscribe to the channel.

CRISPR-Cas9 editing involves cutting DNA strands, leading to permanent changes to the cell's genetic material. ...uses a DNA-cutting protein called Cas9 found in bacterial immune systems. The system can be targeted to specific genes in human cells using a single guide RNA, where the Cas9 proteins create tiny breaks in the DNA strand. Then the cell's existing repair machinery patches up the holes. That's where the researchers saw an opportunity for a different kind of gene editor—one that didn't alter the DNA sequences themselves, but changed the way they were read in the cell. Epigenetic gene silencing often works through...

Self-proclaimed Vietnam War hero Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ demand that the CDC lift its ban on cruise ships “a craven political stunt. His contention that economic freedom is some sort of basic human right is ludicrous. It is up to the government to decide what economic privileges may be exercised and when.” DeSantis called the year-long lockdown of the cruise ship industry “unreasonable and irrational. There may have been an excuse for such action a year ago when governments around the world were taking a shotgun approach to avert a feared decimation of the population...

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 against California's Gov. Newsom's limits on in-home religious gatherings; Chief Justice Roberts dissented along with the three liberal justices

Television coverage begins at 7PM EDT, on NBCSN (NBC Sports)

Two policemen in plainclothes visited the home of a person living in the United States for tweeting against US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The police officers were from the California Highway Patrol and paid a visit on behalf of the Capitol Police. The individual speculated that he was paid a visit because of a tweet where he said that AOC’s response to a question on Israel and Palestine was underwhelming. Twitter link- The individual said that the visit was outrageous. He said, “I felt scared, intimidated, and violated. They knew my name and where I live. It was done on...

On Friday’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Uvalde, TX Mayor Don McLaughlin said that the border is “a madhouse” and that things would be better if the border had the same fencing as the U.S. Capitol. McLaughlin also stated that “we haven’t heard from the administration yet.” McLaughlin said, “Well, it’s kind of like the wild, wild west down there. We have car chases on a daily basis. We have immigrants jumping off of trains.” He added, “The southern border is not under control. It’s a madhouse. If — maybe if they gave us the same opportunities they had up...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked a pointed question yesterday (4/5/21): Does the President acknowledge he lied when he told ESPN Georgia’s new voter integrity law closes polls early at 5 p.m.? The statement earned President Joe Biden a rare four Pinocchios from the liberal Washington Post, because it’s simply untrue – polling places can open and close anywhere between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. – with the Post even noting, according to all of the experts they consulted, the net effect of Georgia’s law is: “to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.”...

In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. This spring -- 17 years later -- those cicadas are part of Brood X (ominous as the "X" sounds, it stands for the Roman numeral ten) and for all that time they have been underground eating and growing. Researchers aren't sure exactly how many will surface, except that it will be in the billions: They estimate the numbers will be at least 1.5 million per acre, which could mean as many as 30 of the creatures covering your average square foot.