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Nantucket Memorial Airport has run out of jet fuel at the peak of summer, impacting commercial and private flights at one of New England’s busiest transportation hubs. On Saturday the airport suspended jet fuel sales and informed commercial carriers that they needed to fly into the island fully loaded with fuel due to the shortage.Airport officials said Saturday night that they were not only facing overwhelming demand for jet fuel, but also a logistical nightmare in getting fuel tanker trucks to the island due to record competition for reservations this summer on the Steamship Authority ferries. They also cited a...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may grant full approval for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccination as early as September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing FDA advisers and former officials familiar with the process.The rush for full approval - as opposed to the current emergency use authorization - comes as many schools, hospitals and employers have used full approval as a benchmark for moving forward with mandatory vaccinations."We’d like to see it approved as fast as humanly possible, so we can really go back to just the more normal experience," said Jim Malatras, chancellor of the State University...

Laurel Hubbard is set to make history when she competes as the first openly transgender athlete at an Olympic Games. The New Zealander will take the stage on August 2 for the women's super heavyweight +87kg weightlifting event. At 43 years old, Hubbard is also set to be the oldest weightlifter competing in the sport at the Tokyo games. Who is Laurel Hubbard? Born in February 1978, the weightlifter hails from Auckland, New Zealand. Her father, Dick Hubbard, was a wealthy cereal company magnate and briefly served as Auckland's mayor from 2004 to 2008. Hubbard revealed she took up "an...

I Don’t Know About You, but I’m Getting NervousNot the enemy in front but the friends behind are the men who spread despondency and alarm” Sir Ian Hamilton, Gallipoli Diary (1920)The word neurosis denotes what a less pretentious age called a nervous disorder, or a case of bad nerves. That was in the day when psychiatrists were called nerve doctors. Neurosis is compounded of the Greek word neuron, which means a nerve cell, and the suffix osis, which means a disorder, disease or complaint. This is why a man whose breath is cause for complaint is said to have halitosis....

The United States military has confirmed that it carried out another airstrike against al-Shabab militants, its third in less than two weeks. Sunday’s strike was in support of Somali government forces in the vicinity of Qeycad, in the central Galmudug state, according to the U.S. military. The Somali government earlier reported the strike was in an area where federal and U.S.-trained forces were fighting the militants. There was no word on whether militants were injured or killed. “This is another major blow to al-Shabab’s means to wage war against the Somali people,” a statement by the Information Ministry of Somalia...

A group of 10 Republican senators is backing legislation that would require an audit of the decision-making and public health messaging by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The Senate proposal (pdf), the Restore Public Health Institution Trust Act of 2021, would require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess the CDC’s public health messaging and decision-making and prepare a report on its findings.The report would include a review of the data that the CDC used to make its recommendations and whether the agency’s “inconsistent messaging” had an impact on the public’s trust and willingness to take the COVID-19...

After a tumultuous period for U.S.-listed Chinese companies, many U.S. investors are finally concluding that Chinese companies aren’t worthy of a place in their portfolios.On July 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a broad halt on new Chinese IPOs listing in the United States until risks posed to investors can be better understood and disclosed. And that’s easier said than done.It’s a truly shocking development. Several months ago, it was difficult to imagine what could derail the flow of foreign capital into Chinese stocks.The catalyst was the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its regulatory regime. The beginning...

An estimated 1.95 million U.S. renter households owed more than $15.3 billion in back rent when the federal eviction moratorium expired on July 31, according to a new report.The number of renter households in debt is expected to reach 2 million by December, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said in the July 30 report (pdf). Those households are expected to collectively owe $18.6 billion by that point, with an average debt of $9,300.The state with the largest estimated number of households in arrears on rent in August is California (313,300), followed by Texas (174,900), Florida (171,900), and New York...

Something interesting has happened on the Wuhan virus front over the past few days. The Biden bunch have changed their tune about media coverage. Once the media were loyal little catchfarts and stenographers pushing whatever narrative the Biden White House wanted to put out between sessions of Biden eating boogers.Biden eats boogers? https://t.co/puO48T5rfV— Storm Paglia 🇺🇸 (@storm_paglia) July 30, 2021Somehow they became part of the problem, being needlessly alarmist about the Wuhan virus.A couple of days ago, the New York Times ran this story, C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox.The Delta variant is much more contagious,...

Yesterday, the so-called eviction moratorium for renters put in place by the CDC expired, leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now, you may be asking yourself how the CDC, an ostensibly scientific institution, had the power to literally steal the property of Americans without any restitution.The answer is that they didn’t have that power. Yet, when the issue came up before the Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who every Republican and conservative went to bat for when he was unfairly accused of being a gang rapist, decided to keep his seat at the cocktail parties instead of doing...

Residents of Suitland, Maryland, say an unidentified siren sounds off regularly through the night, making it difficult to sleep. They want to know where the noise is coming from and they want it to stop so they can get some sleep. “It sounds kind of like a combination of a tornado siren and a spaceship taking off, like the siren from the ‘Purge’ movies,” resident Scott Bovarnick said. People have complained about loud noises in the area of Prince George’s County on and off for years. “We have a lot of young families in the neighborhood, a lot of children,...

On the Treatment of Covid-19Stages and treatment of covid disease (EVMS) Updated: August 2021Languages: German, EnglishBased on the available scientific evidence and current clinical experience, the SPR Collaboration recommends that physicians and authorities consider the following covid-19 treatment protocol for the prophylactic and early treatment of people at high risk or high exposure.Numerous international studies have shown that prophylactic and early treatment can significantly reduce the risk of severe and fatal covid-19 (see scientific references below).Note: Patients are asked to consult a doctor.Treatment protocolProphylaxisVitamin D3 (2000 IU per day)Zinc (20mg to 40mg per day)Quercetin (250mg per day)Bromhexine (24mg per day)*Mouthwashes...

Coronavirus Variants: What’s Next?Coronavirus variants: Escape from antibody classes 1 to 3 (SPR, based on Greaney et al.) Published: July 1, 2021Share on: Twitter / FacebookSo far, no variant has achieved escape from all three major antibody classes.Please note: This is a scientific analysis; it does not support “fear mongering”.Existing coronavirus variants – including the British, South African, Brazilian and Indian variants – have shown some gradual changes in infectiousness, virulence, and immune escape. Relative transmission advantages are often only transitory, until collective immunity has caught up.Some of the existing variants – notably the South African, Brazilian (P1), Nepalese and...

The people in Sima’s tiny village on the side of the mountain in South Asia work hard to provide for themselves, and for each other. They are a small community that lives on little. As a Bible translator in her spare time, Sima makes the 2-hour trek through the jungle with her baby and her laptop to reach a small town that has an internet café. There, she has just enough bandwidth to send a text with updates.Sima knows something that few in her village know: that God is going to meet them through His Word. What she may not...

Does the AMA limit the number of doctors to increase current doctors' salaries? Asked 10 years, 1 month ago Active 11 months ago Viewed 21k times 45 7 A suggested reason why doctors get paid so much more in the US as opposed to other developed countries is that the American Medical Association (AMA) artificially limits the physician supply in order to drive up salaries. I found this article which blames the AMA, but gives as its only source Milton Friedman's book from 1962. A more recent article dates from 1986. Lew Rockwell also blames the AMA, but he also...

COVID RealitiesRumor has it we are headed for another lockdown as libs continue to lie about COVID stats and broadcast more fear-mongering.Why not just put them in camps? https://t.co/ZaSGm1A3cM— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 31, 2021The woman who published the tweet below, Debbie Burnett, is running against Rep. Boebert in Colorado. She is histrionic about COVID. She is actually a veterinarian who volunteers at a hospital as a physical therapist. The rolling average of new COVID cases in Aspen (which is Boebert’s district) is five per day. This woman is dangerous.This is a lie. https://t.co/zKmgoR3B1l pic.twitter.com/YUpokyD3Ig— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) July 31,...

(Youthful Jack Lord, later of television’s “Hawaii Five-O” fame, starred in “Story of a Patriot,” that opened in 1957. ) “Story of a Patriot,” Colonial Williamsburg’s landmark orientation film is no longer being shown at the Visitor Center, where daily viewing was available for 63 years. “Screening of ‘Story of a Patriot’ at the Colonial Williamsburg Regional Visitor Center paused starting March 16 when Colonial Williamsburg’s public sites closed to limit health risks associated with COVID-19,” explained Joseph Straw, senior public relations manager at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. “Since Colonial Williamsburg’s reopening in June much of our programming has moved...

The Biden administration has approved a massive solar power project in California that will produce enough power to electrify 90,000 homes. That’s the good news. The bad news is that producing the solar panels in China using coal-fired electrical power plants to generate electricity will produce almost as much CO2 as the fossil fuel plants the solar power is supposed to replace.Manufacturing solar panels is a dirty business. Starting with the raw mineral quartz, the refining process produces a highly toxic substance, silicon tetrachloride, that some manufacturers simply end up dumping. Huge amounts of power and heat must be used...

Now that we know that migrants are spreading COVID throughout the country, here's a scandal that goes with it, which hasn't gotten the attention it merits.According to the Daily Mail:Two whistleblowers have accused the US Department of Health and Human Services of directing them to downplay the severity of a coronavirus outbreak among migrant children at a federal facility in Texas. Arthur Pearlstein, a director at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and Lauren Reinhold, an attorney-adviser at the Social Security Administration, detailed their allegations in a complaint sent to four Congressional committees and government watchdogs on Wednesday.They said the...

August 1, 2021 Beware A Massive False Flag To Usher In 'The Great Reset' As Huge Chunks Of The Democrats Voting Base Are Rejecting 'The Vax': The Globalists 'Extermination Window' Is Being Accelerated While the mainstream media and Democrats continue to attempt to paint Conservatives who refuse to take their experimental mRNA injection as being 'extremists' who are 'putting the entire country in danger', according to the CDC's own statistics, only 27% of black Americans had been 'vaxxed', meaning roughly 73% of black Americans are avoiding 'the vax', while only 39% of what the DM story calls 'rural dwellers' have...