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“My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks.”Eric Clapton has described his experiences with the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying it had him worried if he would ever play guitar again. Clapton spoke of his experiences in a letter [via the Telegram messaging app] to Italian architect Robin Monotti, who shared it on Twitter on 12 May. In Clapton’s statement, he described “severe reactions” to the vaccine and blamed “propaganda” for overstating its safety. “I took the first jab of AZ [AstraZeneca] and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days,” Clapton...

Fintech and the IMF Emerging technologies, from artificial intelligence to distributed ledgers, are transforming the financial services landscape, creating opportunities as well as challenges for consumers, service providers and regulators alike. These technologies could drive substantial efficiency gains in the financial sector, including in the areas of payments, financing, investments, asset management and insurance. However, they could also pose risks to the stability and integrity of the financial system, in particular where they operate outside of the purview of financial regulation and supervision. Recognizing these potential benefits and risks, the IMF has been closely monitoring developments in the field of...

“Silver Spoons” actor Ricky Schroder confronted a Costco employee who wouldn’t allow him entrance to the store without a mask. Schroeder shared video of the encounter on Facebook where it quickly went viral. Schroder believes being forced to wear a mask is ‘medical tyranny.’

Attorney Matt DePerno is holding a press conference in Antrim County today. The presser started around noon. 100% Fed Up’s Patty McMurray is covering the press conference live today from Antrim County. Plaintiff Bill Bailey joined Matt DePerno today up front for the press conference.

Los Angeles, Calif. -- Sofia Milos, the Greek-Swiss-Italian actress who then-boyfriend Gavin Newsom famously ogled during his San Francisco mayoral party days, hasn't done too poorly in Hollywood. One wonders, however, what motivated the CSI: Miami alum to share a Twitter dance with a sweaty obese man in his blue skivvies? Wonder, no more. She gyrated with the Captain America wannabe, and performed other strange maneuvers, to celebrate getting the Moderna jab. Mamma mia madness. More

Some Border Patrol agents have given themselves as frustration grows over Joe Biden's liberal border policies. “We have so many people coming across, and then we’re out there killing ourselves to catch them, rescue them or whatever it is, and then they’re being released,” Rosemarie Pepperdine told Reuters. “Why even bother?” Reuters conducted a series of interviews with border patrol agents. Pepperdine is one of many border patrol agents considering early retirement because of the dramatic shift in border policy during the Biden administration. Border Patrol Chief Rodney S. Scott is resisting Joe Biden's new order to use "non-legal immigration...

Democrats are openly discussing arresting and extraditing Donald Trump from Florida to New York as part of a multi-pronged strategy to derail him if he decides to run for president again. Should former President Trump be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. while staying at Mar-a-Lago, officials in Palm Beach, Fla., are reportedly considering a course of action. Vance, by the way, lets almost every criminal out of jail in New York, but of course Republicans are treated differently. ... According to Politico, law enforcement officials in the town have discussed how to handle possible extradition if Trump...

BREAKING: New York state will adopt the CDC's new mask and social distancing guidance for fully vaccinated people starting Wednesday, the same day the three tri-states are poised to lift most remaining virus restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says. Masks are still required on public transit, in nursing homes, in homeless shelters, correctional facilities, schools and healthcare facilities across the state in accordance with the new federal guidelines, the governor said Monday. Private venues can still impose additional rules as they see fit, but the longstanding statewide executive order on masks that has been in place since April 2020 will be...

The New York Times attempted to save President Joe Biden’s political image after a string of abysmal economic news plagued the administration recently. The Times spun attention away from the gas shortages, spiking inflation and atrocious April jobs growth in a story headlined, “Amid Economic Turmoil, Biden Stays Focused on Longer Term.” The sub-headline was just as insulting to Americans already experiencing the disastrous effects of Biden’s economic policies: “The president’s advisers are pushing their most detailed argument yet for the long-term benefits of a $4 trillion agenda to remake the American economy.” Times White House correspondent Jim Tankersley and...

New post on Substack free for everyone: Last Wednesday, on CNBC, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky swatted away mask questions from host Shep Smith and instead dumped tons of platitudes about “the science” on him. She meandered here and there about the vaccines and the variants and making sure “you’re not an asymptomatic carrier if you’re vaccinated” before we could act like vaccinated people. By Thursday morning everything had changed. New “science” must have come in overnight. Vaccinated people could go maskless outdoors and indoors. It was a miracle and it makes us wonder what the new science was? Was the...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas operating in Gaza office building hit by airstrike over the weekend. Blinken says he has asked Israel for justification for the strike. Blinken spoke at a news conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as pressure is increasing on the Biden administration to ask for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel destroyed a building housing The Associated Press and other military, and claimed that Hamas used the building for a military intelligence office. That contradicts a Jerusalem Post report over the weekend. It also defies common...

Buddy Roemer, who rode a message of reform in the 1987 governor’s race to vault over three challengers and “slay the dragon” — scandal-torn three-time Gov. Edwin Edwards — but who lost reelection four years later to the same rival, died Monday in Baton Rouge. Roemer was 77. He had been ill for months. Roemer was a Democrat-turned-Republican, but he seemed too independent and headstrong to fit well in either party. He never followed the precept that to get ahead in politics, you had to get along with other politicians. With his sharp mind, he understood all the angles of...

The peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most powerful person in the world exposed. ===================================================================== BuzzFeed News found President Joe Biden’s Venmo account after less than 10 minutes of looking for it, revealing a network of his private social connections, a national security issue for the United States, and a major privacy concern for everyone who uses the popular peer-to-peer payments app. On Friday, following a passing mention in the New York Times that the president had sent his grandchildren money on Venmo, BuzzFeed News searched for the president’s account using only a combination of the...

The Democrats are howling about the forensic audit of the votes cast in Arizona’s Maricopa County, or allegedly cast, in the 2020 presidential election. Methinks they doth protest too much, their angst revelatory of a concern that statistical anomalies and curious events will be proven to be deliberate election tampering. If the 2020 election was conducted fairly, as they insist, then there should be no fear. So what are they afraid of? We all remember how Fox News made a curious early election night call of Arizona for Joe Biden with few actual votes cast while withholding judgment on Florida...

Many rural Americans are reluctant or unwilling to be vaccinated against COVID-19, raising concerns about rural America's ability to achieve "herd immunity." But health care experts have some recommendations of how to persuade rural residents to get vaccinated. Chris Haugen and Mark Strand reflect the new great divide in rural America: whether or not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Haugen believes in freedom of choice and the importance of thinking for himself. And the 44-year-old Butte, N.D., farmer and entrepreneur has decided not to be vaccinated. "I'm just not going to do it," he said, citing his distrust of the...

A federal judge in Massachusetts is set to force Twitter to explain whether or not it is a “state actor” or a truly private company, according to reports. The effects could be far-reaching in ending Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives.

A DuPage County judge has ordered a full recount of the November race for DuPage County auditor, ruling there are enough ballots in question to potentially overturn the results. "Any in-precinct ballot that is not initialed shall be deemed defective and not counted," Judge Craig R. Belford wrote in a written ruling Wednesday. According to the initial count, incumbent Republican Bob Grogan lost to Democratic challenger William "Bill" White by 75 votes, 233,121 to 233.046. Grogan sought a recount, claiming in court filings that an election judge at a Downers Grove Township polling place failed to initial all ballots as...

President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 47.5 percent, according to polling conducted by the Trafalgar Group. Biden’s approval rating has shrunk 9.5 percent since April when Gallup marked the president at 57 percent approval:

“By June, nobody is going to be wearing masks. By June, I think, the prevalence [of Covid] is going to be sufficiently low in this country [and[ we’re just not going to be concerned about it,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

The war of words unleashed on Wall Street and in Washington by Wednesday’s announcement of an unexpectedly high rate of consumer price inflation is escalating by the day. Legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller had warned on Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal that the Fed was enabling fiscal and market excesses by not standing up to the political whims of Congress; he stated on CNBC that the Fed’s overly accommodative monetary policies posed a risk to the status of the United States dollar as a global reserve currency. Refuting such concerns, Paul Krugman asks today in his column for...