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Former President Donald Trump authored an article encouraging Americans to recognize how the left, spurred on by President Joe Biden, is “brainwashing” children with “the ridiculous left-wing dogma known as ‘critical race theory.’” In an opinion article published on Friday, Trump warned parents against the danger of schools implementing critical race theory into their curriculum at the instruction of the Biden administration. “The key fact about this twisted doctrine is that it is completely antithetical to everything that normal Americans of any color would wish to teach their children,” Trump wrote. “Instead of helping young people discover that America is...

When Biden spoke to American troops in England, some eagle-eyed observers noticed something very strange. None of these troops appeared to have name tags. They didn’t have ranks or even American flags on their sleeves. This led many to question: is this even a legitimate audience? Or is it a friendly audience of “plants” or actors to make Biden look good?

This week’s aggressive repricing in U.S. Treasuries is going global, with long-end borrowing costs from Germany to the U.K. sliding as traders brace for central banks to quell fears over rising inflation. The yield premium on 30-year German bonds over five-year equivalents narrowed to the lowest since March on Friday, while a similar gauge in Britain fell to levels last seen in January. It follows a plunge in long-term Treasury yields on Thursday, which sparked the biggest two-day flattening of curve since March 2020. The moves come after Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday signaled they could tighten monetary policy sooner...

Recent advancements allow for novel approaches against an old enemy. Scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Naval Medical Research Center partnered with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Acuitas Therapeutics to develop a novel vaccine based on mRNA technology that protects against malaria in animal models, publishing their findings in npj Vaccines. In 2019, there were an estimated 229 million cases of malaria and 409,000 deaths globally, creating an extraordinary cost in terms of human morbidity, mortality, economic burden, and regional social stability. Worldwide, Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite species that causes the vast majority...

The Confederate battle flag, which was crafted as a symbol of opposition to the abolishment of slavery, is just recently tired. We don’t see it much anymore. However, on the 6th, when the stormers rained on the nation’s most precious hut, waving Old Glory — the memo was received: the American flag is its replacement. President Biden, Madame Harris and members of Congress: the American flag has been hijacked as code for a specific belief. God bless those believers, they can have it. Like the Confederate, it is tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect. It no longer represents democracy and freedom....

Grover Norquist blasted President Biden for pushing for trillions in new spending while the U.S. faces surging gas prices and rising inflation, likening him to former President Jimmy Carter. Biden initially proposed his $4 trillion spending plan as an "investment in America," but Republicans have pushed back at the price tag. Norquist compared Biden's agenda to that of Jimmy Carter, who was president in the late 1970s when the U.S. was facing double-digit inflation and declining economic output, a scenario that spawned the term "stagflation."

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Getting rid of hiccups is no easy feat. Once your diaphragm starts involuntarily spasming, there's little you can do to stop the ensuing "hupps" and "hics" other than wait it out. If you want to speed up the process, you can always try holding your breath, drinking upside down, sucking on a lemon, or eating a spoonful of sugar, but as popular as these traditional hiccup 'cures' are, the advice is notoriously unreliable. Although hiccups are nothing more than a minor inconvenience to most of us, for those that suffer hiccups regularly, hope could come in the form of a...

A Harvard scientist claims her colleagues were afraid of voicing support for the Wuhan lab leak theory, a possible origin for the coronavirus pandemic, because they were afraid of being “associated with Trump.” The comments tend to indicate that experts were guided more by politics than their allegiance to ‘the Science.’ Alina Chan, a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University who specializes in genetic engineering, is one of 18 researchers who published a letter in the journal Science last month calling for a more in-depth investigation into the virus’s origin.

Some vaccine experts having second thoughts about rushing to inoculate kids Melissa Healy Fri, June 18, 2021, 3:00 AM From the earliest days of the pandemic, doctors and public health officials have seen widespread vaccination as the most effective way to stop COVID-19 in its tracks. But a growing contingent of medical experts is now questioning whether that conventional wisdom ought to apply to children. Their doubts are not borne of conspiracy beliefs, but couched in the carefully calibrated language of risk and benefit. And they're expected to get a public airing next week as advisors to the Centers for...

Should we be shocked that a so-called journalist is criticizing a legal process used by people to understand what their own governments are doing? Absolutely not.Brandy Zadrozny, a senior reporter at NBC News, is displeased with how American citizens have mobilized against critical race theory. Many are using open-records laws to obtain evidence of what public entities are doing with their tax dollars.To Zadrozny, people who seek to hold government accountable via the Freedom of Information Act—passed by Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966—are participating in an “onerous” process. Well, is she in favor of governments keeping public information...

I just got a text message that said 'please text me' .It was from the same area code as my phone with the first 3 numbers the same as mine as well, a tactic often used by scammers. I sent nothing back, but only because I don't know the automatic feedback for a non existent number.

BOSTON (AP) — A union that represents about 800 Boston city employees who have been working remotely during the pandemic has filed an unfair labor practices claim against acting Mayor Kim Janey’s administration for unilaterally ordering them back to the office. The Service Employees International Union Local 888 filed the complaint with the state on Thursday, the Boston Herald reported. “The City refused in good faith to bargain about health and safety issues, family and childcare issues (especially single and low wage employees), and productivity issues (as the evidence will show that many of the job tasks have been accomplished...

The Universe is a large place, and there are a lot of large things in it. Not just galaxies, but groupings of galaxies, and the cosmic web that connects them all together. Scientists have just discovered what appears to be one of these groupings, and it could have serious implications for our understanding of the evolution of the Universe. It's an almost-symmetrical arc of galaxies at a distance of 9.2 billion light-years away, and, at 3.3 billion light-years across, it's one of the biggest structures ever identified. Astronomers are calling it the Giant Arc, and, if confirmed, it joins a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike. Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three years ago through his representation of porn star Stormy Daniels against then-President Donald Trump.

https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg117156.html Re: [Vo]:Mizuno - and possibly his most overlooked paper Jones Beene Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:53:05 -0700 Here is a suggestion for Norront Fusion (Holmlid licensee) ... Their website indicates they have three Holmlid-effect muon generators operating at the moment. Suggestion: Hybrid Holmlid/Mizuno device for generating neutrons. Place a magnetized Mizuno device in the output path of a Holmlid muon generator. Typically every muon catalyzes ahundred or so D+D fusions. A small muon output is thereby multiplied. That is such a major improvement that physicists would be impressed to the extent that massive financial support would be shifted from...

For reference, this is the story to which Tim Young is referring: a nice girl had just gotten into Tennessee, her dream school, as a cheerleader. Then, an acquaintance of hers, Jimmy Galligan, decided to ruin her life by posting a video of her from years before singing along to a rap song. People from all over the darker, leftist occupied reaches of the internet piled on, calling her a vicious racist and all manner of obscenities. While a few conservatives stood up to defend her, most were cowards that backed down rather than stand up for some girl who...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gas prices have whizzed past $3 per gallon in much of the nation. The cost of used cars and new furniture, airline tickets, department store blouses, ground beef and a Chipotle burrito are on the rise, too. Many economists say the price increases are fueled by the aftereffects of a global pandemic and probably won’t last. But Republicans are hoping to storm into next year’s midterm elections arguing that steep government spending under President Joe Biden and a Democratic-controlled Congress has triggered inflation that will ultimately hurt everyday Americans. Republicans have nonetheless intensified warnings that inflation is...

Most days, it’s hard to recognize our country anymore. Every day that passes since President Trump left office, Democrats in Washington, the mainstream media, and corporate elites chip away at our constitutional rights, systematically attempt to rewrite our history, and cancel anyone who doesn’t comply with their agenda. In many instances, career politicians and weak Republicans are to blame, kicking the can down the road and refusing to stand up and do something about it. I’m not your typical candidate. I’m a conservative businessman, political outsider, demolition expert and Pro-Trump patriot running for Congress in Georgia to wreck the left...

Imagine that a young Isaac Newton, Madame Curie, Henri Poincare, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, or, for that matter, Pythagoras, Euclid, or Archimedes was newly enrolled in a Portland, Oregon grade School. Exposed to this state’s absurd edict regarding how math is to be taught – to make it less “white,” and to remove the onus of showing your work and reaching the right answer — would any of them have achieved prominence? Would the world be the same? Racism, Under Every Rock! Consider the ladies profiled in the movie Hidden Figures, including Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy...