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Key to living past 100 may hinge on your gut health, study of centenarians shows TOKYO — Centenarians have unique gut bacteria that enables them to live to a ripe old age, according to new research. Scientists in Japan say this unique gut makeup fuels bile acids that protect against disease. The discovery could lead to yogurts and other probiotic foods that increase longevity. “In people over the age of 100, an enrichment in a distinct set of gut microbes generate unique bile acids,” says lead author Professor Kenya Honda of Keio University in a statement per South West News...

CNN is warning Americans that it is “about to get much harder not to be vaccinated” — a caution which follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expressing the need to ramp up its messaging as the American people question its motives and science behind its latest edicts. This week, President Biden blamed unvaccinated Americans for the CDC’s updated guidance, requiring vaccinated people to wear masks in indoor areas “of substantial or high transmission.”

The Great Reset is upon us…or at least the powers that be are trying to bring it out. What was once a fringe “conspiracy theory” is now on display plain as day for everyone to see. The economic, political, academic, and media elites around the world are leveraging the chaos, confusion, and restrictions on liberty from the COVID-19 lockdowns and using them to radically alter society around the world. What will this change look like? The global elites want to create a society of renters who own nothing, while also pushing a social agenda that would be unpopular with the...

he said they'll vaccinate everyone and shortly after they would say "oh, you have to keep masking up anyhow."

Senator @TedCruz blasts the CDC for basing their recommendations on politics, not science.Cruz went on to explain how local Democrat politicians then take the CDC recommendation to implement mandates, and not take any personal responsibility for them. pic.twitter.com/VxNH09QTmd— KUSI News (@KUSINews) July 30, 2021

The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress, the Department of Justice said. The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel said that Congress had made a legitimate request to see Trump's tax returns. The decision came more than a year after the Supreme Court said that Trump's tax returns and other financial records had to be turned over by his longtime accountants to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. as part of a criminal probe. The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress,...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are currently on a meeting with seven governors to talk about how states are responding to a devastating Western wildfire season — and how the federal government can assist. According to some sources’ details, the virtual meeting will last an hour with governors whose states are experiencing wildfires and drought: Govs. Greg Gianforte of Montana, Jay Inslee of Washington, Gavin Newsom of California, Brad Little of Idaho, Kate Brown of Oregon, Tim Walz of Minnesota, and Mark Gordon of Wyoming. Biden and Harris will discuss efforts to strengthen wildfire prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and response efforts,...

According to the CDC’s own data provided Thursday night by the Washington Post, Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky lied to the public when they reported over 99 percent of people dying in hospitals were unvaccinated. What the data revealed is that the CDC didn't just make a slight error, but that vaccinated deaths were underrepresented by at least 15 times, and that's just the beginning. ... Israel, Iceland and other highly-vaxxed nations are all rushing to lock down a second time and rush out boosters but our public health "authorities" and Biden himself have...

An obscure, legless amphibian, colloquially referred to by some as a 'penis snake,' is the latest invasive species to make its way to South Florida. Formally known as a caecilian, these creatures are native to Colombia and Venezuela, but several have been pulled from the Tamiami Canal near the Miami International Airport. Caecilians can range in size from a few inches to five feet long and have extremely poor eyesight - their name translates to 'blind ones' in Latin. This could be just another non-native species in the South Florida mix.'

A second city near the Texas border is scrutinizing a charity run by the Catholic Church for releasing COVID-19 positive migrants into their community. On Thursday afternoon, the City of Weslaco issued a statement revealing that several COVID-19 positive migrants were being housed in a local hotel. The migrants were released from federal custody and booked at the Texas Inn in Weslaco–the same hotel chain involved with a large group of COVID-19 positive migrants in La Joya.

Local research claims Pfizer shot now only 41% effective against symptomatic COVID, while British stats have it at 88%New data from Israel and the United Kingdom painted a confusing and contradictory picture on Thursday as to the effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in fighting off the Delta variant of the coronavirus. New Health Ministry statistics indicated that, on average, the Pfizer shot — the vaccine given to nearly all Israelis — is now just 39% effective against infection, while being only 41% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID. Previously, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was well over 90% effective against infection. Meanwhile, a...

The US defence secretary said Britain might be more helpful as an ally if it did not focus on Asia, highlighting US concerns that forays by European allies into the Indo-Pacific could weaken defences closer to home. “We have interests around the globe and we want to make sure that we work together to address all those interests,” Lloyd Austin said in Singapore on Tuesday. “As we look to balance our efforts in various parts of the world, we are not only looking to help each other in the Indo-Pacific but we are looking to ensure that we help each...

CNN)The Justice Department told the Treasury Department that it "must" turn over former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, which first requested them more than two years ago. The direction came in an opinion released Friday by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to the executive branch. "The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former President's tax information." Under the department's interpretation of federal law, according to the opinion, "Treasury must furnish the information to the Committee.

Among the many eruptions of outrage that distracted us from the dread of the past year was one provoked in December by an 800-word Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.” Written by prolific author and veteran wit Joseph Epstein, it mocked First Lady–to–Be Jill Biden for wanting to be called “Dr. Biden.” The honorific should be reserved for the kind of doctor who could save your life when your appendix bursts, he wrote, not a doctor of education or, as they are commonly known, an Ed.D. Epstein...

Came across this report from NewsmaxBasically he says while Cheney is widely despised back home in Wyoming and loses big head to head if all her challengers are on the ballot then she can survive by splitting the vote. This has got to be our worst nightmare?! I doubt all of her challengers will mount strong campaigns but no doubt she will help the weaker ones with some dirty tricks... Praying that Republicans in the state get behind just one of them - along with Trump - and force the others out. It's still very much early days....

Leaders of the GOP have hit back at President Joe Biden's draconian new Covid measures after the CDC updated its guidance again. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday night banning mask and COVID-19 vaccination mandates to promote 'individual right and responsibility' in the Lone Star State. Abbott, 63, announced the executive order in a press release just hours after Biden called on states to do more to incentivize vaccination.

President Biden on Wednesday mistakenly uttered the name of his predecessor — “President Trump” — chalking it up to a “Freudian slip” even though he was talking about his longtime boss Barack Obama. Biden meant to refer to Obama, under whom he served for eight years as vice president, when describing his role in auto-industry bailouts in 2009. “In 2009, during the so-called Great Recession, the president asked me to be in charge of managing that piece — then-President Trump,” Biden misstated during a speech near Allentown, Pa.

Twitter has come under fire for locking the account of conservative commentator Dave Rubin over a post where he said COVID-19 vaccines aren't working as promised, officials want a federal mandate and booster shots are in the works. Rubin, whose new book is released today, tweeted Thursday evening that society should 'take a pause' amid the vaccine rollout. 'They want a federal vaccine mandate for vaccines which are clearly not working as promised just weeks ago,' he wrote.

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation has registered another jump, hitting its highest level in three decades. Federal data on Friday showed the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, excluding volatile food and energy, increased 0.4 percent in June for an annual gain of 3.5 percent, the largest gain since December 1991. The overall PCE price index, with food and energy included, rose 0.5 percent in May for an annual gain of 4 percent, the fastest rate since the Great Recession in 2008.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention altered its mask guidance after a study found the Delta COVID-19 variant appeared to spread as easily as chickenpox, possibly even among the vaccinated, according to internal federal documents — but critics have argued that the data is weak and not peer-reviewed. An internal CDC presentation, largely based on unpublished research, suggests that the latest strain is almost a completely different virus from the initial outbreak, according to the Washington Post, which first obtained the slides. SNIP The report appears to run counter to the CDC’s own data, which shows there’s only a...