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Chinese bourses have halted 42 initial public offerings (IPOs) amid a regulatory probe into four intermediaries in the deals. It marks the latest move in the Chinese regime’s escalating crackdown on the private sector.The Shenzhen Stock Exchange suspended more than 30 IPOs, including public share sale plans by the electronic carmaker BYD Co’s chip unit, on Aug. 18, according to exchange filings. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has pressed the pause button on eight IPOs targeting the city’s tech-focused STAR Market since Aug. 19.Among those hit was Chinese electric car maker BYD’s chip unit. BYD Semiconductor had in May filed...

With that in mind, I thought you might like to take a three-quarter-of-an-hour break from America's Suez moment and enjoy this finale to our friend James (Snerdley) Golden's series Rush Limbaugh: The Man Behind the Golden EIB Microphone. For this postscript, James has collated various vignettes from the life of America's anchorman, as told by yours truly, Rudy Giuliani, Megyn Kelly, Scott Baio, Mary Matalin and others. It's a timely reminder of who and what we're missing right now. Click below to listen:

Vice President Kamala Harris reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the Indo-Pacific on Aug. 23, as the regime in Beijing continues its propaganda attack against the United States following the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.Harris made the remarks during a joint press conference with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong following a meeting between the two. She arrived in Singapore on Aug. 22 for a seven-day visit that will also include a trip to Vietnam. Harris also met with Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob.“I reaffirmed in our meeting the United States’ commitment to working with our allies and partners around the Indo-Pacific...

Did you expect anything else from the clueless and desperately corrupt FBI? They’re too busy looking for people they smear as “white supremacists,” so as to silence and criminalize political dissent in the U.S. Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him. The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories. But before Lazarro could share...

The truth behind the headlines. The Hospital/CDC Protocol is what is killing patients. After seeing the lies coming from the CDC and now the FDA; I'm not surprised.

When Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wis.) announced Aug. 10 that he wouldn’t seek reelection, he became the eighth House Democrat to decide either to retire or seek a different office in November 2022.Congressional incumbents always start a reelection campaign with major advantages over challengers, so losing eight of them at this point in the political cycle is ringing alarm bells among Democrats and encouraging growth in Republican optimism.An Aug. 19 analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight was among the loudest of the alarms, saying “these departures are still an early warning for them, especially considering Democrats hold a narrow 222-to-213 seat majority,...

As Joe Biden continues to falter, Germany and now the UK have reached out to Vladimir Putin to thwart further chaos in Afghanistan. French and Italian leaders reached out to Putin last week to discuss the humanitarian issues in Afghanistan. The entire Western world knows they cannot trust the Biden regime after this historic catastrophe they engineered in Afghanistan. The Financial Times reported:

The saga of the illegal renewed eviction moratorium has returned to the Supreme Court. On Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to lift the stay that has enabled the moratorium to remain in place since May, when D.C. District Court Judge Friedrich found it unlawful. The circuit court’s ruling entitles the landlords to again apply for relief in the Supreme Court and they did so the same day. Jones Day, the law firm handling the case for the landlords, anticipated the circuit would rule against them and had already prepared the papers for the Supreme Court.It is highly...

The Democrats and their pet media have been blasting derision from every working screen and speaker about how dangerous and irresponsible Republican Governors like Texas’s Greg Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis are for not forcing children to wear masks alongside adults.Since the ever-changing CDC guidelines now say that masking children is integral to stopping the spread of COVID-19, the left has gone into overdrive since Abbott passed his ban on mask mandates within the state of Texas and DeSantis with his executive order allowing parents to opt-out of masking their children if they please.Interestingly enough, Abbott and DeSantis may not...

James Madison University has changed its mind.Kind of.For now.The college has decided not to continue its woke student employee training — at least, not without a review.As I covered Saturday, the Virginia school recently required enrollees working in the Office of Student Affairs to take utilize an “opportunity.”Via job training, young adults were informed they fit into one of two groups: privileged (agent) or oppressed (target).To put it in other terms…Assailants:Able-Bodied30’s to Early 50’sMan, Cisgender PeopleHeterosexualHeteroromanticChristianWhiteAmericanVictims:Below 30’s, Older Than 50’sWoman, Transgender, Nonbinary, GenderqueerLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Asexual, PansexualHomoromantic, Aromantic, By/PanromanticMuslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, PaganBlack, Asian, LatinxAnywhere Outside AmericaTo supplement that...

While aerobic and dynamic resistance exercise appear effective at reducing blood pressure, a new study has revealed isometric resistance training (IRT) as an emerging mode of exercise demonstrating effectiveness in reducing office blood pressure. Office blood pressure refers to your pressure when taken during a GP visit, for example. It is taken at one time-period, usually when you're sitting down. What is isometric resistance training? IRT is a type of strength training. During IRT, the muscles produce force but do not change length. For example, pushing against a wall or holding a 'plank'. This is different to more traditional strength...

A third dose of Pfizer's Covid vaccine significantly improves protection against infection and serious illness in the over-60s, according to an official study in Israel. It found that people given a booster shot were four times less likely to catch the virus after 10 days compared to those only given two doses. A third jab also enhanced protection from serious illness and hospitalisation in the over-60s by five to six times, according to the study by the Israeli Health Ministry. The findings, believed to be based on real-world data, were presented at a meeting of a ministry panel of vaccination...

(CNN)The report detailing the findings of contractors who conducted Arizona's sham "audit" of last year's election results -- which had been expected Monday -- will be late because three of the five members of the auditing team have tested positive for coronavirus, the state's Republican Senate leader says. Cyber Ninjas Chief Executive Officer Doug Logan, whose firm was hired by the Republican-led Arizona Senate to audit the 2.1 million votes cast in Maricopa County in 2020's presidential race, and two other members of the five-person audit team tested positive "and are quite sick," Senate President Karen Fann said in a...

Dr. Anthony Fauci quickly walked back his prediction Monday that in one year, by the fall of 2022, the United States can get control of COVID-19. During an appearance on CNN, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser offered an apology, claiming he misspoke and meant to say that ideal is within reach by the spring of 2022, but only if people holding out on getting vaccines decide to get the jab. "No, Anderson, I have to apologize," he told anchor Anderson Cooper. "When I listened to the tape, I meant to say the spring of 2022, so I did misspeak....

Portland police said Monday that they are looking for another shooter or shooters after arresting a man suspected of opening fire at a protest in downtown Portland Sunday afternoon. Dennis G. Anderson, a 65-year old Gresham resident, faces allegations of unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm after police said he fired on a group of demonstrators around 5:45 p.m. Multiple videos posted to social media show a man standing behind a trash bin near Southwest Yamhill Street and Southwest Second Avenue aiming a silver-and-black handgun and firing multiple shots across the street. A video taken...

Given the recent decimation in U.S. listed China based stocks, it is becoming abundantly clear who is running the show in China.And no one person is coming to that realization quicker than Jack Ma. Once revered as a beacon of success and entrepreneurship out of China, Ma's outspoken nature and boisterous antics saw him fall out of favor with the Chinese Communist Party - quickly.Such was the topic of a new, comprehensive Wall Street Journal report, which detailed the lesson Ma is now learning first hand: there is only one most powerful man in China. How did Ma - who...

With the latest wave of return-to-office delays from Covid-19, some companies are considering a new possibility: Offices may be closed for nearly two years. That is raising concerns among executives that the longer people stay at home, the harder or more disruptive it could be to eventually bring them back. Many employees developed new routines during the pandemic, swapping commuting for exercise or blocking hours for uninterrupted work. Even staffers who once bristled at doing their jobs outside of an office have come to embrace the flexibility and productivity of at-home life over the past 18 months, many say. Surveys...

According to state department cables released to NBC news, some of the Afghan staff said they would rather take a bullet from the Taliban rather than attempt another effort to run the gauntlet and reach the Kabul airport.(Via NBC) […] The cable, which was sent Saturday, said memos were sent Wednesday inviting Afghan staff members at the embassy to head to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. It told them to take food and to prepare for difficult conditions. “However, no one anticipated the brutal experience that occurred,” the cable said.Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at...

Outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo marked his final day in office Monday by handing out four sentence commutations and one pardon. He also made a parole board referral for a 76-year-old man over his role in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery.

--------------------------- INDICATIONS AND USAGE ---------------------------- COMIRNATY is a vaccine indicated for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older.... ------------------------------ ADVERSE REACTIONS ------------------------------ • In clinical studies of participants 16 through 55 years of age, the most commonly reported adverse reactions (≥10%) were pain at the injection site (88.6%), fatigue (70.1%), headache (64.9%), muscle pain (45.5%), chills (41.5%), joint pain (27.5%), fever (17.8%), and injection site swelling (10.6%). (6.1)...The safety of COMIRNATY was evaluated in participants 16 years of age and older in...