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MEXICO CITY — Mexico has accepted its first group of refugees from Afghanistan. The five women and one man arrived Tuesday in Mexico City, where they were welcomed by Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Ebrard told the group, “Welcome to your home.” The refugees belong to a group involved in the field of robotics. They had to travel through six countries to reach Mexico....

LAFD Captain calls vaccine mandate ‘tyranny’ prompting internal investigation Granucci’s comments on the social media app Telegram come days after Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for all city employees, which includes LAFD staff. “This is tyranny. This is about freedom of choice. The department has said we can seek medical exemption… that is a pie in the sky. We can even seek religious exemptions, but they know they have end-runs around those. The vaccinations will come. And then after that, it will be a booster, and another booster and another booster. When will this...

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) commends the Minister for Civic Education and National Unity, Mr. Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo for the efforts to combat violations and mob violence linked to witchcraft beliefs in Malawi. At a recent event in the Neno district, Mtambo urged Malawians to end witchcraft-related attacks and exorcism because jungle justice was a crime against the law. Mtambo, who was a human rights activist before joining politics, made this appeal during a civic education programme on witchcraft-based violence in the country. Neno is one of the districts in the country that has experienced mob violence and persecution...

OVER a hundred doctors and health professionals have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for an "open and proper scientific debate" about the pandemic policy arguing covid restrictions are based on flawed assumptions. A hundred and thirty three doctors, nurses, psychiatrists paramedics and midwives signed the letter released today which states that despite a “complete lack of widespread approval among health professionals,” of the pandemic policies, “no attempt” has been made to measure the harms of lockdown policies. The letter, also addressed to the Health Secretary and First Ministers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland states: “You...

...Between July 27, 2020 and October 29, 2020, 45,441 ≥16-year-olds were screened, and 44,165 randomized at 152 sites (US [n=130], Argentina [n=1], Brazil [n=2], South Africa [n=4], Germany [n=6], Turkey [n=9]) in the phase 2/3 portion of the study. Of these participants, 44,060 were vaccinated with ≥1 dose (BNT162b2, n=22,030; placebo, n=22,030), and 98% received dose 2 (Fig.1). During the blinded period, 51% of participants in each group had 4 to ...Figure 2 Efficacy of BNT162b2 against COVID-19 Occurrence after Dose 1 During the Blinded Placebo-controlled Follow-up Period. ...VE=vaccine efficacy...... During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo...

Following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, Egypt's state-run media announced on Monday that more than 40 Egyptian nationals had been evacuated. A military jet transporting Egyptian civilians arrived in Cairo late Monday, according to the official MENA news agency. The flight brought home 43 evacuees, including the Egyptian embassy staff and clerics from the Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's foremost religious institution.

The story of the complex events that occurred during liberation of Dachau Camp by the US Army in April 1945.Liberating Dachau 1945 (16mins)

there are still concerns about COVID-19 vaccines, even after the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine. Health care workers protest vaccine mandate "When we're going to lose all of our nurses and then all of a sudden one of our three vaccines gets FDA approved so we don't lose nurses — nurses are still not going to get it regardless if it's FDA approved," said Krissy Licht, a Carlsbad nurse. "We are not going to do that." Licht was one of the first people in the state to get vaccinated, but it's something she regrets now. "Probably would not have gotten...

Two Afghan women have given birth to babies after their arrivals at the Fort Bliss Army post, ABC-7 has learned. snip UPDATE: El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego says initial information he received from the chief medical officer at UMC about two Afghan women giving birth turned out to be in error. The judge, in a follow up to comments he made earlier in the day to ABC-7, indicated that no Afghan refugees have yet given birth in El Paso - but he added that a half-dozen pregnant Afghanis are hospitalized and due to give birth soon.

Cigar diplomacy is back—and once again it is clouding the landscape for an American president. As the Cold War raged in 1962, a trade embargo against Fidel Castro’s communist government in Cuba was an easy political call for John F. Kennedy. The president had a personal conflict-of-interest, however: JFK loved a good smoke. So he quietly secured 1,000 of his soon-to-be-contraband favorite, H. Upmann Petit Coronas, for his personal humidor before taking “necessary actions to promote national and hemispheric security.” As a nonsmoker, President Biden has a clear conscience as the feds prepare to take on the tobacco industry of...

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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study is being used by mainstream media to fearmonger Americans into taking Covid vaccines. Yahoo Finance published an article with the headline, “Unvaccinated LA residents were 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19: CDC study.” Citing the Los Angeles County Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released on Tuesday, even local news promoted the claim that “Unvaccinated L.A. County residents [are] 5 times more likely to get COVID, 29 times more likely to be hospitalized.” Looking at a screenshot of the CDC release, one can observe the definitions for what...

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Buried in the fine print of Monday’s approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries. Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a biologics license application for the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine. The press reported that vaccine mandates are now legal for military, healthcare workers, college students and employees in many industries. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has now required the vaccine for all teachers and school staff. The Pentagon...

Despite outpouring of grief for slain officer, some wounds persist and may be beyond healing The bagpipes are put away, the District and Unit standards furled and returned to Offices across the city, the dress blues placed back into closets with the sincerest hopes that they are aired out only for Fall and Winter Inspections. The healing begins.... Or does it? Sad to say, we don’t see it happening. Officer French’s death laid bare a festering and infected wound that will defy any sort of mending in the short term. Chicago’s political class, along with their national counterparts, is at...

Billionaire bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, the founder and CEO of $137 billion DoubleLine Capital, says his number one conviction over several years is that the U.S. dollar will decline as a consequence of current economic policies, resulting in the U.S. losing its sole reserve currency status. "My number one conviction looking forward a number of years — I'm not talking about the next few months at all, I'm talking about several years — is that the dollar is going to go down," Gundlach told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview. It's Gundlach's view that the "places to be in the...

If you know me, you know that I will never get the jab. Why is not relevant.However, in a growing ever-more-hostile environment where such denigrations as “don’t buy your medication” or “don’t get your misinformation on the ‘vaccines’ “ on the internet - and faced with a crescendo of calls for discrimination against the 'unvaccinated' (in my case, 'recovered') - I decided to call your bluff.I have no local doctor, so I have 3 ways of getting information about these shots:Trust in everything government & corporations promulgate, Internet, Hospitals/clinics/pharmacists providing said jabs. I do NOT blindly trust government nor corporate...

LilFarmer: I have noticed so many posts on FR of personal experiences with adverse reactions to the vaccine and thought it would be helpful to put them all in one place. I am not trying to convince anyone to get or not get the shot, but I do think the other side of the story needs to be told so people can make an informed decision. These are the kinds of stories that never make the mainstream news.I have permission to post these accounts, and there are about twenty more I am awaiting permission. I respectfully ask that people do...

(CNN)The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined the Biden administration's request that it put on hold a lower court order requiring the revival of the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy. The court's three liberal justices publicly noted that they would have granted the request to halt the lower court's order.

McDonald’s says it has pulled milkshakes from the menu in all 1,250 of its British restaurants because of supply problems stemming from a shortage of truck drivers. The fast-food chain says it is also experiencing shortages of bottled drinks. “Like most retailers, we are currently experiencing some supply chain issues, impacting the availability of a small number of products,” McDonald’s said in a statement Tuesday. “Bottled drinks and milkshakes are temporarily unavailable in restaurants across England, Scotland and Wales.” It said it was “working hard to return these items to the menu.” …