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As an emergency medicine doctor in Michigan’s Thumb, Dr. Mark Hamed has seen hundreds of patients with COVID-19, but no one with a bad reaction to a COVID vaccine. “Not one,” said Hamed, who also is the medical director for the public health departments in Huron, Lapeer, Sanilac, Tuscola, Alcona, Iosco, Ogemaw and Oscoda counties. That parallels the experience of Dr. Liam Sullivan, an infectious disease specialist at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids: Countless patients with complications from COVID and very few with complications from the vaccine. “There’s just no comparison at all,” Sullivan said. “We’ve had how many thousands...

President Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is gearing up to spend millions of taxpayer dollars fighting the “serious public health threat” posed by gun violence. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky referenced gun crime in various cities and said, “Something has to be done about this. Now is the time — it’s pedal to the metal time,” CNN reported. “The scope of the problem is just bigger than we’re even hearing about, and when your heart wrenches every day you turn on the news, you’re only hearing the tip of the iceberg. We haven’t spent the time, energy...

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus exposes the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, who imposed their interpretation of the Law on the Israelites. Keep in mind that the first Christians and the writers of the first Christian documents were all Jews, or at least people formed by a Jewish thought world. They made sense of Jesus in terms of what were, to them, the Scriptures. Jesus himself was an observant Jew, and the themes and images of the Holy Scriptures were elemental for him. And he presented himself as the one who would...

The result is a potential existential crisis for Hollywood, which has bent over backwards to please China’s Communist dictators in the hopes of maintaining access to the lucrative Chinese market. But the reverse has happened. Hollywood’s share of the China box office market has plummeted to just 9.5 percent so far this year, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway, as reported by Variety. The stark decline comes as Hollywood imports are being edged out by domestic releases. Last year, only two Hollywood releases cracked China’s top-ten grossing movies — Tenet and The Croods: A New Age. For 2019, only...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he supports COVID-19 vaccine mandates for children attending schools as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel a surge in cases in the nation. "I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea," Fauci told CNN’s "State of the Union" program. "We've done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis" vaccinations. Currently, children under 12 are not eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But Fauci, in a separate interview on ABC's...

The Modern Survivalist LIVE STREAM NOTIFICATION - Matt Bracken and Host Fernando Aguirre Broadcast from Spain and Florida, U.S.A. Join us today as we talk with Matt Bracken about current events and how to be better prepared! Make sure to join early and leave your questions in the chat section. Always a fast-moving show. Wide-ranging discussions include emerging global issues, US military degradation, national cultural instability, attacks on freedom from the left and recent news stories. A good resource for ideas to prepare for possible events and for equipment evaluations and suggestions. Subscribed listeners can ask questions in the comments...

Ed Asner, legendary actor, activist and philanthropist, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, surrounded by family. He was 91. Asner, former president of the Screen Actors Guild, is best known for his role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Lou Grant, pulling off the extremely rare feet of playing the same character in both a comedy and a drama series.

BIDEN MEETS WITH HOUSE DEMS: President Joe Biden is attending the House Democratic Caucus' 2021 Issues Conference, ...I remember how this feed was cut at the end when Biden offered to take questions. This is why

Covid-19 has disrupted supply chains for the past year and a half. We’ve seen shortages of our favorite things, from ketchup to coffee—but many people hoped that with vaccinations and the world reopening, those woes were behind us. The Delta variant has other plans that could upend the holiday shopping season. Countries at the heart of retail manufacturing, such as Vietnam and Indonesia, are being swept away by surges of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus. Popular clothing and shoe brands with factories in these countries, including Nike and Gap, are scrambling to find alternative solutions. These...

When did indoor air become cold and clean? Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous, that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of them were one and the same, with occupants powerless against their environment. Eric Dean Wilson, in his just published book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” dives deep into the history of this field. It took more than just...

International firm KTGY architecture + planning proposes re-habit, a plan to convert vacant, big box stores into smaller retail spaces and units to provide housing, employment, and support for homeless individuals. developed by the firm’s research + development studio, the project brings together two ongoing issues in the US, the homelessness crisis and the record number of closing big box stores, such as macy’s JC penney, and sears, repurposing those into self-supporting, mixed-use transitional housing. According to the US department of housing and urban development, the country’s homeless population has increased significantly between 2016 and 2017, counting 553,742 homeless individuals....

Smokers typically pay higher insurance rates so it stand to reason that people who refuse to get a COVID shot might see their coverage costs increase. However, staff at the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner said that is not legal and they want to hear from people if it happens. “An unvaccinated person cannot be charged more than a vaccinated person," said Steve Valandra, the deputy commissioner for public affairs with the Insurance Commission. "It's just not allowed." However, self-insured companies are exempt from this, and are not subject to regulation by the state insurance commissioner. Delta Air...

Tobias Ellwood, chair of the Defence Select Committee, has told Sky News that no one "beyond the White House" could claim the Afghanistan situation as a "success". Mr Ellwood said the humanitarian crisis, the migrant situation and the state of terrorism in the country were all apart of the legacy left behind by the West. He says: "I don't believe anyone beyond the White House could claim this is a success. "We have a humanitarian crisis and migrant challenge on the scale of the Second World War. "The economy is about to collapse. And as I just touched on, terrorism...

The 13 U.S. service personnel killed during a suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport on Thursday represent a cross-section of Americans, all with compelling stories. The remains of the 13 US troops killed in an ISIS-K suicide blast are currently the Dover Air Force Base for dignified transfer, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon declined to confirm whether President Joe Biden would attend the dignified transfer at the base in Delaware, his home state, which is the domestic intake point for US military fatalities abroad. Here’s the photo that was taken at the Kabul airport: There was nothing on the...

Afghan Tragedy Shrivels Prez . . . Will Biden Be Diminished Enough Now For Bishops To Rebuke Him? Would Joe Biden’s newly diminished public image make him realize that he no longer should get away with his public pose of being a practicing Catholic and his sacrilege of receiving the Eucharist while energetically promoting the Culture of Death internationally? Although Biden’s physical and moral impairment already were plain to those who cared about what mattered, dominant leftist media mainly still had portrayed him as a capable politician and admirable man. And these foes of traditional morality were charmed by the...

The mother of a Marine killed in the Kabul airport attack called President Joe Biden a 'dementia-riddent piece of crap' as the president meets with families of the 13 fallen service members on Sunday 'My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday,' Kathy McCollum said in a radio interview on Friday of her 20-year-old late son Rylee. '[He was] getting ready to come home from freaking Jordan to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son,' McCollum said. 'And that sackless, dementia ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.' 'I woke up...

she said she nearly cried when her apartment complex offered her a lease renewal for next year with a nearly 35% increase in price. “It was up over $400 — just like that,” she said, snapping her fingers. “My income is not going up 400 dollars a month!” KXAN Investigators have received several tips over the last month, detailing rent hikes as high as 30% and 40%. One viewer said their apartment downtown was asking for $1,200 more a month — a nearly 47% increase from last year. Experts with the Texas Real Estate Center at the University of Texas...

I noticed Biden check his watch after placement of last fallen Marine into vehicle during the 'Dignified Transfer' ceremony.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a letter to the Biden Administration demanding transparency and that they cease sending “illegal aliens” to Florida.“President [Joe] Biden, Vice President [Kamala] Harris, and their administration have refused to fulfill their responsibility to enforce immigration laws enacted by Congress and the resulting influx of unvetted illegal aliens endangers our national security and undermines the socioeconomic wellbeing of hardworking American citizens,” DeSantis said in a written statement. “Unfortunately, even though the federal government is responsible for immigration enforcement, it is the states who bear the brunt of this administration’s reckless...