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ICAN submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), requesting copies of the clinical trials it relied upon when licensing any influenza vaccine for use in pregnant women. When the FDA failed to respond to this request an appeal, and lawsuit, ensued. In the end, as seen from the document which ended the lawsuit, it is clear the FDA has not licensed any influenza vaccine as an indicated use for pregnant women, let alone conducted or required any pharmaceutical company to conduct any clinical trial which supports the safety of injecting pregnant...

MIT launched the Reconnaissance of Influence Operations (RIO) program to automatically detect disinformation narratives online.

Kathmandu (AFP) - Nepal has reported its first death from mucormycosis or "black fungus", the highly deadly infection affecting thousands of coronavirus patients in neighbouring India. Health ministry spokesman Krishna Prasad Poudel told AFP that there are now at least ten cases in Nepal, which like India has been hit by a huge Covid-19 surge. The 65-year-old man who died was being treated at the intensive care unit at a hospital in western Nepal after being diagnosed with temporal lobe encephalitis. "He died on 3 June 2021... after a nasal swab test showed fungal hyphae and a biopsy test of...

It should not be a surprise @kamaubobb "I l earned my lessons from Minister Farrakhan and Malcolm X, indeed from the very leaders that were part of my growing up" How is this acceptable @sundarpichai 9:58 AM · Jun 2, 2021

This date in 1886 gives us the double execution of two men named Banks and Honesty — words we don’t hear in the same sentence every day, amirite? That’s Tabby Banks and Tom Honesty, to be exact, “two full-grown and powerful negroes” who to nobody’s satisfaction denied all the way to the gallows that they had murdered a white 18-year-old, Joseph McFaul, outside the (still-extant) Taylor Hotel on November 14, 1884. The sources I have located do not explicate any beef specifically known to have existed between these individuals; they do, however, situate the conflict squarely within America’s political environment...

Thanks to its increasing anti-police extremism, the Democrat Party has lost three influential voters in Virginia. The three influential voters — Sheriff Chip Shuler of Smyth County, Sheriff John McClanahan of Buchanan County and Sheriff Brian Hieatt of Tazewell County — were once all Democrats. But not any anymore. Shuler made his switch two Mondays ago when he formally filed a membership application with the Smyth County Republican Committee and the application was promptly approved, as reported by local station WJHL. “I am changing to the Republican Party because of the relentless attack on law enforcement by Democrats in Richmond...

In the competition among the states to establish progressive and “woke” bona fides, California and New York run neck and neck for the lead positions. In no field is this more true than in the area of “climate change,” which as progressive public policy turns into a program to drive up the cost of energy, suppress fossil fuels and anything else that works (nuclear), and demand creation of a new fantasy energy system based on the wind and the sun. In recent years, California has seemed to pull well ahead of New York in the accumulation of climate virtue. California...

Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 12:35–37 Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus quotes a Psalm where David calls him Lord. It calls to mind a question: Do you also recognize Jesus as Lord? Is Christ commanding your life in every detail? Is he the Lord of your family life? Of your recreational life? Of your professional life? Is he the Lord of every room in your house, including the bedroom? Does your sexuality belong to him? Do your friendships serve his purpose? Are you totally given over to him, under his lordship? When we surrender to the path of...

The corporate media’s rolling admission that they missed the biggest story of the century, the likely Wuhan, China lab origin of COVID-19, is proof that Americans have been fed a steady diet of lies and spin from media whose financial interests lie more in China than in the United States. Needless to say, the establishment media has abandoned any pretense of journalism long ago, and ABC White House correspondent Jon Karl admits as much when talking about the lab origin story saying, “I think a lot of people have egg on their face. This was an idea first put forward...

A Florida man who is accused of beating an iguana to death asked a judge to dismiss animal cruelty charges on the basis of the state’s “stand your ground” law. The judge said no. PJ Nilaja Patterson was arrested after allegedly dragging, kicking and beating a 3-foot iguana in Lake Worth, Florida on Sept. 2, according to court records. The animal died as Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control was transporting it to be euthanized, the affidavit states. Patterson’s attorneys Frank Vasconcelos and Carey Haughwout said their client was engaging in self-defense after trying to save the iguana from...

Before social media, society had far more trust in the press, and for good reason. Once upon a time, we woke up looking forward to stepping outside and grabbing that ol' newspaper, so we could spread it along our kitchen table, sip on our coffee and get on with our ‘in the know’ state of the daily news. Once upon a time we turned the radio on during our rides to work and enjoyed listening to the current affairs of our local area and beyond. Once upon a time, we looked forward to coming home from work and turning on...

It has finally dawned on Biden that he barely controls the House and the Senate. His swipes at Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were notable less for how they publicly aired an intra-party dispute than for their utter banality. “I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” ------ a defining feature of his presidency is that one of the headlines...

"A lot of people have egg on their face" for dismissing the COVID-19 lab leak theory, tweeted ABC News ' Jonathan Karl this week. "Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them."Or if Arkansas Tom Cotton did. "We still don't know where coronavirus originated. Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company," he said in January 2020. "I would note that Wuhan has China's only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus."Cotton never said he was certain the virus came from a lab leak and...

The Democrats created and lived in an alternate reality, a fantasy world — Russia collusion, quid pro quo, and now the January 6 ‘insurrection.’ For the entire duration of the Trump presidency, prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton refused to accept the election results of 2016. As a matter of fact, crooked Hillary still maintains the 2016 election was stolen. As recently as October of 2020, Hillary said, “You don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, ‘Whoa, something’s not right here.’ That was...

Hourly compensation soared much more than expected in the first three months of the year, even as millions of Americans remained on unemployment roles or out of the workforce, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Thursday. Hourly compensation jumped 7.2 percent in the first quarter, according to the BLS’s revised estimate of labor costs and productivity. This had been reported as rising 5.1 percent in the first estimate. Adjusted for inflation, hourly compensation rose 3.3 percent, more than twice the 1.3 percent originally reported. Wage pressure was higher in manufacturing, where compensation now seen as jumping 8.9 percent...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expresses his ‘strong dismay’ at the decision, saying Tehran could not pay its arrears due to the US sanctions. Iran on Thursday slammed the United Nations’ decision to suspend its voting rights at the General Assembly for failing to pay its dues as “fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified”. Tehran argues that the $16.2m it owes to the UN is the result of Washington’s crippling sanctions, imposed after former US President Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew the US from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Iran’s voting rights at the UN General Assembly...

Speaking in Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of the racial atrocity there, Joe Biden belatedly turned to the issue of voting rights, to explain why he is having such difficulty winning passage of the party's priority legislation. "I hear all the folks on TV saying, 'Why doesn't Biden get this done?'" "Well, because Biden only has a majority of, effectively, four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends." Biden was referring to Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. "But we're...

Following the Civil Rights movement, physicians took seriously their obligation to treat all patients. This principle separated them from the federal government’s grotesque 40-year-long Tuskegee Experiment SNIP Katie Herzog’s “What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell the Truth?” examines a world in which doctors are silenced for fear that they will be destroyed professionally should they run afoul of the Critical Race Theory infecting medical care across America and in which young doctors, imbued with “anti-racist” zeal have the whip hand. Herzog begins her article by describing a super-secret Zoom group of a dozen physicians across America, who serve as a...

Back in December, SocGen's resident market skeptic Albert Edwards shared with the world why he is starting to panic about soaring food prices. And since that was before food prices really took amid broken supply chains, trillions in fiscal stimulus and exploding commodity costs, off we can only imagine the sheer terror he must feel today. A United Nations index of world food costs climbed for a 12th straight month in May, its longest stretch in a decade, rising to the highest in almost a decade, heightening concerns over bulging grocery bills. All five components of the index rose during...

Covid-19 began trickling out of Wuhan, China, at least a year and a half ago. The world still knows far too little about the origins of the outbreak. Theories include a zoonotic host, a bat cave, a frozen food shipment from Southeast Asia, and—the likeliest explanation—an accidental leak from a virology lab with ties to China’s biological-warfare program. Whatever you believe, getting to the bottom of the case demands American leaders apply new pressure on the Chinese Communist Party. It’s crucial that the world learn how the pandemic started and the extent to which Beijing’s lies fueled this global crisis....