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VIDEOAccording to the YouTube CENSORSHIP policy that got one of my recent videos on the subject of masks taken down along with a guidelines strike against this channel, almost ALL the current discussions on that subject during school board meetings are also taboo. So does that mean YouTube, if they are consistent with their own guidelines, is going to have to take down dozens, if not hundreds, of school board videos? And such videos are going up with increasing frequency because the federal government is now changing their policy on wearing masks, thus causing complaints from parents at school board...

Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health ==================================================================== WEHI researchers have made a discovery that could help more Australian women with ovarian cancer gain access to game-changing cancer treatments called PARP inhibitors. The research team found tumors from some ovarian cancer patients had changes that silenced a gene involved in DNA repair and showed that this made tumors sensitive to PARP inhibitors. The discovery identifies a new group of patients who are likely to benefit from the therapy and who should be included in trials of PARP inhibitors. It also indicates these women should be closely monitored...

So just a quick vanity on a candidate for a warehouse job today. Said candidate arrives for an I terrier that was not scheduled. What was really interesting is candidate arrives wearing sweat pants, it's 95 degrees in my city today, a hair filled short and best of all fuzzy bathroom slippers!!! The observation being that the kids today have absolutely zero clue or actual interest in getting a job. I think some of these people are just filling out the interview ticket for their unemployment benefits. Some others this week have shown zero respect for my time as they've...

Simone Biles is an American hero. She is not a hero for pulling out of these (likely her last) Olympics. Rather she is a hero for everything she’s done leading up to these Olympics where stunningly impressive athletic specimens like Charlie Kirk, Seth Dillon & Matt Walsh have mercilessly hammered her. Without mercy and with a bit too much glee they are engaging a fight for fight’s sake. They are also either purposefully ignoring or ignorantly unaware of some rather important relevant facts. One of the most simple of which is, do they have even an inkling of what it...

Bassem Eid (@eid_bassem) Tweeted: As a Palestinian peace activist who has worked and lived in the West Bank my whole life, I can tell you that you’re doing it all wrong. Your political stunt does nothing to help us and actually harms Palestinian workers. BDS is the opposite of peace! Shame on you. (Replying to @Mittaloak)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday gave her absolute, unconditional surrender to the Chinse coronavirus, by forcing Congressional members and staff to wear special ‘well-fitted” super masks, before ordering the U.S. Capitol Police to arrest those who do not comply. In a Capitol Police Bulletin she specified “all USCP personnel must wear a mask at all times when in interior spaces throughout the Capitol Grounds.” Additionally, she directed officers who work on the House side of the Capitol to “enforce” the policy on staff and visitors.

Background: Pfizer has been extremely aggressive in trying to protect the details of their international COVID19 vaccine agreements.Luckily, I've managed to get one.Because the cost of developing contracts is very high and time consuming (legal review cycles), Pfizer, like all corporations, develop a standardized agreement template and use these agreements with relatively minor adjustments in different countries.These agreements are confidential, but luckily one country did not protect the contract document well enough, so I managed to get a hold of a copy.As you are about to see, there is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details...

Inflation in Germany surged to 3.8% in July, compared to the same time last year, according to the country’s Federal Statistical Office on Thursday. This was the first time since August 2008 that the annual inflation rate in Europe’s largest economy rose to above 3%. On a month-on-month basis, prices rose by 0.9% from June to July. Destatis, the German name for the statistics institute, calculated the number based on a preliminary calculation. […] [E]nergy prices … have been rising faster than the general average for months now. In addition, consumers burning fossil fuels have had to pay €25 ($29.70)...

Illustration of COCONUTS-2b. (B. Bays/SOEST/UH) ================================================================================== Exoplanets are tricksy little beasts. As they are very small, very dim, and very far away, seeing them directly is extremely challenging and rare. As such, we usually infer their presence from their effects on their host stars – which means that when we do, on the odd occasion, see one directly, it's a cause for excitement. And excitement is exactly what you should be feeling with the discovery of an exoplanet called COCONUTS-2b, orbiting a star called COCONUTS-2. Not only is COCONUTS-2b (named for the COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS survey) the closest...

Over one quarter of Los Angeles County’s new cases of the Chinese coronavirus are among fully vaccinated people, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer revealed this week. During a meeting with the County Board of Supervisors, Ferrer said cases are rising among both the vaccinated and unvaccinated, although cases are rising faster among the unvaccinated population. Nonetheless, over 25 percent of new coronavirus cases are occurring in individuals who are considered fully vaccinated.

To everyone that thinks the world can be returned to some sort of “normalcy”, here is a pic of a streamer on Twitch, licking an attachment on her microphone that looks like an ear. She appears to have several followers who are “paying” to do this while they watch. This world is OFF THE HOOK.

Washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation. But for me and my fellow noncitizens, it is a fact of political life that we submit to unquestioningly year after year, primary after primary, presidential election after presidential election. Nearly 15 million people living legally in the United States, most of whom contribute as much as any natural-born American to this country’s civic, cultural and economic life, don’t have a say in matters of politics and policy because we — resident foreign nationals, or “aliens” as we are sometimes called — cannot vote.

Oscar-winning actress and left-wing activist Susan Sarandon helped lead a protest against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) the “squad” of far-left Democratic lawmakers, stating, “We’re losing hope here that you represent us.”

America has jumped in one reporting cycle from approximately 30% Delta variant to 83% as of CDC reports on July 17, 2021. On June 11, 2021, the UK Variant report indicated that in addition to the seven mutations (3 major) in Delta that an additional mutation 417N had been found in a “Delta Plus” variant that almost certainly played a role in the most recent flare we are seeing across the globe. Delta and Delta Plus appear to be infecting equally those unvaccinated and vaccinated, as shown from data in the UK and Israel. This is very different from what...

(CNN)Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law a legislation package that aims to advance the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals by, among other provisions, expanding infertility health care coverage for same-sex couples and repealing an HIV criminalization law. "The four pieces of legislation expand infertility treatment coverage for same-sex couples and women over 35, allow those getting married to choose gender-neutral certificates and those already married to have their certificates updated, and address HIV stigma by repealing the archaic HIV criminalization law," according to a news release from the governor's office. The repeal of the HIV criminalization law is...

A split screen video of Joe Biden speaking in favour of harsh punishments for possessing crack cocaine while his son Hunter Biden smokes a pipe for breakfast has gone viral. Meanwhile there is zero media coverage of the latest embarrassing footage to emerge. The footage of Joe Biden dates from 1991, but has been placed alongside a newly unearthed video of Hunter Biden smoking crack after having an argument with his dead brother’s wife, who he was also reportedly having an affair with. Here’s the side by side video:

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Paprocki: “The problem has not been solved, but tensions have been heightened.”After Pope Francis released his July 16th motu proprio Traditionis custodes, which placed restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, was one of the first American bishops to quickly respond. In a July 19th decree, Bishop Paprocki offered a dispensation allowing the Traditional Latin Mass to continue without restrictions at two parishes in his diocese, and subsequently another decree allowing it to continue at a third of the 129 parishes he oversees.Bishop Paprocki, 68, was...

For a group that believes election fraud is nothing but QAnon cattle scat, the commies sure are trying hard to stop the audits from going forward. They are also trying to keep the findings from the audits from getting out. Twitter recently killed off accounts dedicated to announcing news and findings of election audits, declaring they were breaking rules by reporting “lies.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been poking its ugly, partisan head into election audits, warning states to tread carefully. The DOJ is also suing Georgia over its new election laws.

Ronald Reagan liked to tell stories. As president he told one to a convention of Protestant ministers, about a preacher and a politician who died on the same day and were greeted by St. Peter at the gates of heaven. Peter explained heaven's rules and escorted the newcomers to the homes they would occupy for all eternity. The preacher's proved to be a single room with a bed, table and chair. The politician's was a huge mansion with handsome furnishings. The politician was grateful but puzzled. "How do I deserve this grand place while that good man of the cloth...

In 1776 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence and thus began a war with Britain. When the war was concluded in 1783 American casualties would number 25,000 dead and 25,000 wounded. Those 50,000 casualties paid the price so that a new nation, founded on the ideas of freedom and liberty, could take its place among the nations of the world. Eighty-five years later the United States was at war with itself and eventually, 360,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to extend that promise of freedom and end slavery. Seventy-five years later 405,000 Americans would die to save freedom from...