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“I’ve seen more patients die from the vaccine than from Covid,” said a board certified occupational therapist who worked in three Covid units in Hawaii.“I’ve seen 32 elderly people pass away immediately after taking the Moderna vaccine,” Abrien Aguirre told Hawaii Free Speech News. “None of that is being talked about on the news. It doesn’t fit their narrative.”Aguirre, who said that he works with the geriatric population in the largest skilled nursing facility in Oahu, said the major media is misrepresenting what is happening with hospitalized Covid patients.“The people moved to the Covid unit, didn’t have Covid. They tested...

Grab the popcorn, folks, The PA and Fatah are joining the chorus that is criticizing Hamas for doing what Israel has shown them to be doing for years: human rights abuses, including using their own civilians as human shields... Of course, the PA and Fatah are no boy scouts themselves; they are people in glass houses – terrorists in suits to be more precise – who literally throw stones (and Molotov cocktails). Their criticism of Hamas here is to score political points. Nevertheless, it is always a positive development when terrorists organizations turn on each other.

The three-body problem, which has been a focus of scientific study for over 400 years, represented a stumbling block for famous astronomers such as Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler. Scientists at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found a solution to one of physics' greatest questions in a paper published this month. The paper, published in Physical Review X, focuses on the three-body problem, which concerns the orbits of the Sun, Earth, and the Moon. While in a binary orbit system consisting of two celestial bodies, the orbits can be accurately predicated mathematically, while the complex interactions of a three-body problem...

Despite a recent increase in the number of serious cases in Israel, including among the fully vaccinated, those who received both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 are significantly less likely to experience severe illness, according to data released by the Israeli Health Ministry. As of August 16, the ministry recorded 159 severe COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated over the age of 60, compared to 20 per 100,000 people among the fully vaccinated. This makes the unvaccinated elderly more than eight times as likely to experience a severe case than their immunized counterparts.

When a 83-year-old woman fell down a ravine in Cornwall, England, it was her cat who helped rescuers find her. The woman had been missing for over an hour, and concerned neighbors called emergency services, BBC News reports. Police went searching for her, but it was a member of the public who heard a meowing cat and located her. A passerby heard the cat, Piran, meowing loudly, which alerted them to the woman. Rescuers then saw the woman had fallen 70 feet into a stream, "with incredibly difficult access and uneven terrain," according to BCC News. Rescuers lifted the woman...

The number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. hit a record high on Saturday, with more than 1,900 kids in hospitals. Hospitals across the South are running out of beds as the contagious Delta variant spreads, mostly among unvaccinated people. Children make up about 2.4% of the country’s COVID-19 hospitalizations, and those under 12 are particularly vulnerable since they’re not eligible to receive a vaccine. “This is not last year’s COVID,” Sally Goza, former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, told CNN on Saturday. “This one is worse, and our children are the ones that are going...

The Washington Monument remained closed for a second day Tuesday to repair "damage to the electronic access system caused by Sunday morning's lightning strike," the National Park Service said. A bolt of lightning struck the monument in Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning, and it was closed Monday, the National Park Service's National Mall account tweeted. Travis Nix, a law student who tweets under the handle @tnix113, tweeted the video early Sunday....

Four men charged with breaking into an upmarket Darwin restaurant to steal alcohol amid a COVID-19 lockdown will be slapped with thousands of dollars in fines for not wearing face masks. Northern Territory police were alerted at 1.20am Tuesday that Pee Wee's at the Point had been broken into and four men had fled the scene on foot after allegedly stealing the drinks. Officers arrested the group a short time later. Detectives reviewed CCTV and found the men had breached the NT's Emergency Declaration, which mandates mask-wearing 'I've confirmed those individuals were not wearing masks and they will be receiving...

When President Joe Biden appeared in the White House East Room on July 8 to stress that the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan was proceeding apace, he declared that a Taliban takeover of the country was not inevitable. Five weeks later, the Taliban is in charge, scenes of chaos at the Kabul airport from the evacuation of Americans and U.S.-aligned Afghan citizens has transfixed the world, and Biden is scrambling to defend himself from a series of miscalculations that have damaged U.S. credibility. While insisting that "the buck stops with me," Biden has doled out blame to others over America's humiliating...

President Donald J. Trump strongly condemned President Joe Biden and the catastrophe unfolding in Kabul, Afghanistan since the weekend, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday. Trump told "Hannity" that Biden has humiliated the United States more than any other president in history, explicitly eclipsing fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter's Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979. "It is a terrible time for our country. I don't think in all of the years our country has ever been so humiliated. I don't know what you call it – a military defeat or a psychological defeat, there has never been anything...

A new preprint study raises concerns about vaccine efficacy against the Delta variant, and it seems like the Biden administration is getting worried. The study, conducted by the Mayo Clinic, found that the Pfizer vaccine was only 42 percent effective against infection in July. “If that’s not a wake up call, I don’t know what is,” a senior Biden official told Axios. Overall, the study found that the Moderna vaccine was 86 percent effective against infection and Pfizer’s was 76 percent; Pfizer’s was 85 percent effective against hospitalization, while Moderna’s was 92 percent. However, the vaccines’ effectiveness against infection dropped...

Joel Valdez isn't in the hospital for covid-19, but he's feeling its effect. For 10 days, Valdez has been in a hospital bed at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston awaiting surgery after he was shot six times outside a grocery store as an unlucky bystander to a domestic dispute. "Having broken bones and bullets in me for over a week now, it's a little frustrating," Valdez told KRIV over the weekend. He tallied his injuries, which include a neck wound and three gunshot wounds to a left shoulder that's in need of surgery: "Everybody is really surprised I'm still in...

Gavin Newsom is not ready to go home - nor can he, now that he’s sold his house. The 53-year-old Democrat sold his pre-governorship mansion outside San Francisco for $5.895 million in May, property records show. He moved forward with the sale months after it became clear he would face a recall election this fall. He first listed the five-bedroom, five-bathroom home spanning 4,000 square feet in January 2019 for $5,995,000 after he took office and moved to Sacramento, according to Realtor.com. It did not sell and quietly slipped off the market - until it sold off-market in May above...

Why don't the Republicans impeach Joe Biden? The Democrats tried to impeach Trump over a phone call. Here Biden has lied to the American public, lost the war in Afghanistan and left over 10,000 Americans to fend for their own. His only advice to them is to "go hide." Why not impeach him? If there ever was a pretend President, who was deranged, incompetent and a criminal buffoon, it is Joe Biden. Why not impeach!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden’s administration confirmed late on Tuesday it plans to extend requirements for travelers to wear masks on airplanes, trains and buses and at airports and train stations through Jan. 18 to address ongoing COVID-19 risks. A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spokesperson confirmed the extension, first reported by Reuters. “The purpose of TSA’s mask directive is to minimize the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation,” the spokesperson said. Major U.S. airlines were informed of the planned extension on a call with TSA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday, four people briefed on...

As part of a process that could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia's most populous county, the Georgia State Board of Elections announced plans to appoint a review panel this week under a provision in the state's new election law, the Associated Press reported. The state's Republican lawmakers pointed to the new law last month when requesting that the board appoint the performance review board for an investigation of Fulton County's handling of elections. The panel will be appointed during the board's Wednesday meeting. Most of Atlanta is in the heavily Democratic county, amounting to about 11 percent...

Boston Dynamics has published a pair of videos showcasing its Atlas robots completing a complex obstacle course that requires balancing on beams and vaults. he company's Atlas robotics program is a platform for its engineers to perform research and development on sensory and perception systems. In a sandbox environment, Boston Dynamics tasked two of its Atlas robots with parkouring through various obstacles. The parkour routine entailed one of the two robots running up a series of banked plywood panels, broad jumping a gap, and running up and down a set of stairs. The second robot, meanwhile, was programmed to leap...

President Trump warned Americans what to expect from Afghanistan in the coming days, weeks, and months. This will be one colossal humiliation for America. The Taliban is going to hold Americans hostage. And the ransom money for American hostages will fund their operations. President Donald Trump: We’re being set up. They have all those people and I can guarantee you they consider them to be hostages. And let’s see what happens over the coming weeks. But this is not a story that ended today or yesterday. This is a story that is going to go on for a long time....

Last week, it was reported that Admiral Mike Rogers, who served as President Obama’s National Security Advisor, has been cooperating with U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal inquiry into the origins of the Trump/Russia collusion investigation. This was big news for two reasons. I wrote about the first reason in a recent post, in which I called Rogers the “Unsung Hero.” He was one of the few Obama administration officials who actually had integrity, a man who noticed that something was amiss and acted. It was this man who traveled to Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, to brief then-President-elect Donald...

A secret watchlist of suspected terrorists maintained by the FBI was exposed online after a configuration error and then not fixed for several weeks after being reported, according to Comparitech. Head of security research at the firm, Bob Diachenko, said he discovered the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) list on July 19, when the exposed Elasticsearch server was indexed by search engines Censys and ZoomEye. The list was left online without a password or any other authentication to secure it. It contained 1.9 million records, including full name, TSC watchlist ID, citizenship, gender, date of birth, passport number and more. The...