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Most people who are reluctant to be vaccinated against Covid are worried about side-effects and whether the vaccines have been adequately tested, a survey in 15 countries has shown. Other reasons cited in the survey of 68,000 people, led by Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation in collaboration with YouGov, were the uncertainty that people would not get the vaccine they preferred and worries about efficacy. The survey was carried out in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Excluding eligibility, the top reasons...

Hunter Biden appears to have moved out of the luxury $5.4million home he was renting in Venice Beach, California amid a crime and homelessness wave that has hit the beach-front Los Angeles city. The son of President Joe Biden was reportedly paying $25,000 a month to rent the three-story property on the Venice canals - just a block away from the beach. But on Monday, DailyMail.com spotted a moving truck outside the palatial home with furniture being loaded into it. Father-of-five Hunter, 51, moved into the stylish property with wife Melissa and their son Beau at the end of 2020....

In 1977 a flu broke out in northeast China which eventually spread to Russia and then around the world. It eventually took the lives of approximately 700,000 people around the world most of whom were young. It came to be known as the “Russian flu” because Russia was the first country to report it to the WHO. Scientists who examined its DNA concluded it was nearly identical to a previous strain of the flu virus which had caused an outbreak between 1949 and 1950. In nature, the flu doesn’t remain unchanged for 27 years as it circulates. So the fact...

Former President George W. Bush’s public policy organization states that amnesty for illegal aliens is “essential” to securing the United States-Mexico border as illegal immigration continues to soar under President Joe Biden’s administration. In an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, the George W. Bush Center’s Natalie Gonnella-Platts and Jenny Villatoro write that a massive amnesty for most of the nation’s 11-to-22 million illegal aliens is necessary as part of a broader border security initiative. The op-ed is part of a larger amnesty coalition where Bush has lobbied Republican lawmakers for months to craft an amnesty for illegal aliens with...

Many of the pandemic-related food price increases are related to supply chain disruptions and labor shortages.The cost of food at grocery stores that steady increased as a result of the pandemic are now reaching record highs.The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported Thursday that prices in May represented the biggest "month on month gain since 2010.The Los Angeles Times recently reported the price of seafood increased of 18.7% over a 13-week cycle that ended in late April. In addition, the NielsenIQ report recently found prices in 50 out of the 52 food categories tracked has...

Rand Paul joins Fox & Friends to discuss the inconsistencies revealed in Dr. Fauci's emails. Video...

Irish Artist Paints Satirical ‘Bergoglio Suite’Eugene de Leastar: Pope Francis is 'given to a lot of daft un-papal pap' County Tipperary, IRELAND (ChurchMilitant.com) - An acclaimed Catholic artist has painted a scorching theological critique of Pope Francis, portraying "the pontifex maximus of the new pseudo enlightenment" as "a relativist ideologue given to gesture piety."Eugene de Leastar's gallery of more than 20 oil paintings covers a range of Francis' foibles — from the disputed apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia to favoring a gaggle of pro-gay cardinals and homopredator McCarrick cronies like Blase Cupich, Donald Wuerl and Kevin Farrell. "The Great Accuser" by...

U.S. prosecutors this week put a price tag on damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 breach — $1.5 million so far — and for the first time are asking defendants to cover some of the bill in plea offers, prosecutors and defense lawyers said. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington cited the damage estimate Wednesday in court and in plea papers filed in the case of Paul Hodgkins, 38. The Tampa crane operator pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress and faces sentencing July 19 in Washington. “Your client acknowledges that...

What did Fauci know and when did he know it? Turns out, he knew a lot but he kept that information from the public. This man must be held accountable!

Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is some 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about 150 light-years in diameter. It's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core...

In 2007, six-year-old Jazz Jennings went on national television to tell Barbara Walters the same thing she’d been telling her parents, siblings and anyone else who would listen: She was, despite her birth certificate’s insistence otherwise, a girl. Shy and sweet, Jennings answered Walters’ probing questions with the clarity and patience of someone used to explaining herself over and over again. “She was so charismatic, so charming and so clearly herself,” Laverne Cox says of first seeing that “20/20” interview. “Her humanity was so on display that you couldn’t deny she had the right to be who she was.” It...

Part of a massive animal skull washed up on a New Jersey beach on Memorial Day after a storm passed through the area, and authorities have finally solved the mystery as to what it is.On Tuesday, the Island Beach State Park, in Berkeley Township, New Jersey, posted photos on Facebook of a massive skull with a beak shape some found to be reminiscent of a long-extinct dinosaur.The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Island Beach State Park confirmed that it was the ventral, or lower, jaw and skull of a minke whale.

The new White House science adviser wants to have a vaccine ready to fight the next pandemic in just about 100 days after recognizing a potential viral outbreak. In his first interview after being sworn in Wednesday, Eric Lander painted a rosy near future where a renewed American emphasis on science not only better prepares the world for the next pandemic with plug-and-play vaccines, but also changes how medicine fights disease and treats patients, curbs climate change and further explores space. He even threw in a “Star Trek” reference. “This is a moment in so many ways, not just health,...

Minneapolis city workers on Thursday started partially clearing the George Floyd memorial — after complaints, it had become a lawless “autonomous zone” with at least one murder, attacks by vandals, and a shooting just last week. Dozens of clean-up crew members descended on the now-notorious area known as George Floyd Square from 4:30 a.m., city spokeswoman Sarah McKenzie confirmed. Videos showed Bobcat equipment lifting away concrete barriers that had sealed off the area from traffic for almost a year since Floyd’s murder on May 25 last year. Video below: Twtter LinkPhotos below: The makeshift garden around it is part of...

Gov. Inslee on Thursday announced the state is incentivizing people in Washington to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The incentives announced include: — Lottery cash drawings, with prizes totaling $2 million — Higher education tuition and expense assistance — Sports tickets and gear — Gift cards — Airline tickets — Game systems and smart speakers Starting next week, the Lottery will conduct one drawing for $250,000 every week for four weeks for all vaccinated individuals. At the end of the four weeks, there will be an additional, final drawing for a $1 million prize. The program is retroactive. Washingtonians who are...

Update (1650ET): It appears former President Trump has read a few more of Fauci’s real ouchies exposed by the FOIA-driven email extravaganza and he doesn’t like what he’s reading. In a statement released via NewsMax’s Steve Cortes, Trump demands reparations from China for unleashing hell on the world… Now everyone, even the so-called “enemy”, are beginning to say that President Trump was right about the China Virus coming from the Wuhan Lab.The correspondence between Dr. Fauci and China speaks too loudly for anyone to ignore. China should pay Ten Trillion Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and...

Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, the keynote speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony in Akron, Ohio, had the volume of his microphone turn down while giving his speech about the holiday that include a part about freed slaves being among the first to officially mark the event. Kemter's microphone was turned down when he alleged that the first recorded Memorial Day celebration was by an organized group of freed black slaves almost a month after the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The microphone was turned down for about two of his 11-minute...

Evidence continues to point to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) as the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Meanwhile, based on the now publicized emails sent to and from Dr. Fauci, it has become evident that there was a strong push to downplay this theory and convince the world the virus evolved naturally. The story grew thicker on Thursday. According to a report from Vanity Fair, last March, leading scientists aggressively tried to silence former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield after stating his belief on CNN that the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan. Following his public...

In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota stands out as the mastermind of a monumental advance in industrial efficiency. The Japanese automaker pioneered so-called Just In Time manufacturing, in which parts are delivered to factories right as they are required, minimizing the need to stockpile them. Over the last half-century, this approach has captivated global business in industries far beyond autos. From fashion to food processing to pharmaceuticals, companies have embraced Just In Time to stay nimble, allowing them to adapt to changing market demands, while cutting costs. But the tumultuous events of the past year...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is expanding his legal offensive against Dominion Voting Systems, now taking aim at another voting machine company, Smartmatic, as he continues to push allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Lindell's legal team prepared a new complaint for a federal court in Minnesota, dated Thursday, which accuses Dominion and Smartmatic of waging a "lawfare campaign," in which they allegedly are "weaponizing the judicial system and the litigation process to silence dissent, unpopular beliefs, or facts inconveniently out-of-line with mainstream groupthink." Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump who has insisted the Republican will be reinstated...