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“The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough” (Proverbs 30:15-16).

In the video above, Alexander Stockton, a producer on the Opinion Video team, explores two of the main reasons the number of Covid cases is soaring once again in the United States: vaccine hesitancy and refusal

WELLINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) - New Zealand on Monday reported what authorities said was the country's first recorded death linked to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The information was released by the health ministry following a review by an independent COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring board of the death of a woman after receiving the vaccine. The ministry's statement did not give the woman's age. The board considered that the woman’s death was due to myocarditis, which is known to be a rare side effect of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the statement said. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that...

John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, argued that the conventional wisdom about guns and gun regulation is incorrect. He said the media does a poor job of analyzing gun-related events, especially mass shootings.

Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments. Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls. During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments. The indicated biological mechanism of IVM, competitive binding with SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, is likely non-epitope specific, possibly yielding full...

Okinawa prefecture has halted Moderna vaccinations after unknown materials were found in a vial of the drug. The move comes after Japan pulled 1.6 million Moderna doses from a different batch over contamination concerns. Black substances were discovered in syringes and a vial, while unidentified pink substances were spotted in a different syringe with a Moderna vaccine dose, according to Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. Okinawa’s government said in a statement on Sunday that it was suspending the use of Moderna vaccines after “foreign substances were spotted in some of them.” Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan’s domestic distributor of the Moderna shot, is...

Google reported to the Australian federal government that it has removed around 800,000 YouTube videos concerning COVID-19, and 275 million COVID-19 apps from across its platform as part of its $1 billion (US $726 million) global campaign to “counter COVID-19 misinformation.” It has also launched a US $3 million fund to wipe out alleged vaccine misinformation. Google regards official government information from national health departments or the World Health Organization as reliable sources. Meanwhile, the WHO has noted that information changes over time as the world “learns more about the virus.” Lucinda Longcroft, Google’s director of government affairs and public...

Twitter has banned conservative author Alex Berenson due to violations of its COVID-19 misinformation rules, the social media giant confirmed on Sunday. “The account was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill. Berenson said in a Substack post on Saturday that he had been banned from Twitter. “This was the tweet that did it. Entirely accurate. I can’t wait to hear what a jury will make of this,” he said. “Meantime, guess you’ll be getting more Substacks.” In a now-deleted tweet, Berenson compared the vaccine to a...

A Chicago mother is appealing a court order that revoked her parental visiting rights because she declined to be vaccinated against the coronavirus . When Rebecca Firlit and her ex-husband of seven years participated in a child support hearing via video call on Aug. 10 for the purpose of determining the terms of shared custody of their 11-year-old son, Cook County Judge James Shapiro inquired about Firlit's vaccination status. After Firlit told the judge she did not receive the vaccine because of adverse reactions she has had to other vaccines , he ordered her to be stripped of her parental...

Joe Biden is asleep. Literally. If there was any doubt, he has laid it to rest, as he quite obviously tried to sneak in a nap while meeting with Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett.The moment when Biden could noty resist nodding off during the high stakes meeting was captured on video. Watch:The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali looked directly at the U.S. President as if in disbelief while continuing to talk. This is hardly desirable optics for a Commander-in-Chief who looks like he would be more comfortable in a nursing home than in a war room.America’s allies are now beginning...

WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Multiple rockets were fired at Kabul's international airport but were intercepted by a missile defense system, a U.S. official told Reuters citing initial information. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said as many as 5 rockets were fired, though it was not clear if all were brought down by the defense system. The official said initial reports did not indicate any U.S. casualties...

The length to which liberals will go to damage Mike Lindell and his MyPillow brand appear to know no bounds, even if it means injuring others financially.A group of investors has planned to open a MyPillow store in Columbus, Ohio but Lindell haters are doing everything they can to stand in the way, The Columbus Dispatch reported.Roy Hanna, who’s part of a five-person investment team, is planning to open the store, which exclusively will carry the MyPillow brand of bedding products, in the old Trapped Columbus escape room at 4310 N. High St.At the center of the dispute is Mike...

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of Greenland’s ice, extending ice core data for a better picture of the ice sheet’s history. “This new, huge data volume records how the ice sheet evolved and how it’s flowing today,” said Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics and the study’s lead author.Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest mass of ice on Earth, containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet. The ice sheet has been losing mass over the past two decades and warming...

The Taliban have offered Joe Biden a deal: unfreeze the Afghan funds and they will extend the deadline.— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) August 29, 2021 Interesting tweet from Richard Grenell here — “The Taliban have offered Joe Biden a deal: unfreeze the Afghan funds and they will extend the deadline.” Taliban holds an Afghan news anchor at gunpoint he delivers remarks telling the public not to be afraid of the Taliban. pic.twitter.com/2h23MLHMpL— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 29, 2021

#Breaking: Israel no longer considers people who have received 2 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines "vaccinated." As of September 1, only 3x vaccinated are considered immune.— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) August 29, 2021 Triple Vaxxed is the new Double Vaxxed. Restrictions will be placed on citizens who have only received two Vaccines beginning September 1. People who do not receive a third Vaccine shot will be denied a green passport, which allows entry into public life. “This is simply because, in terms of its effectiveness, the vaccine is valid only for a period of five or six months. After about half a year, you...

Students at Amherst College are about to face some of the toughest COVID restrictions in the country as they begin the Fall 2021 semester next month. The private liberal arts college, located in Amherst, Massachusetts, announced the tightened public health rules Tuesday in response to concerns about the spread of the Delta variant. For now, the restrictions will apply from move-in until September 13 (via The Amherst Student): The restrictions include: indoor double-mask mandates, two Covid tests upon arrival, a bi-weekly testing requirement, limits on indoor gathering sizes, off-campus travel restrictions and an elimination of in-person dining services. Upon arrival,...

WASHINGTON—A U.S. warship and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, Aug. 27, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled island.The passage comes amid a spike in military tensions in the past two years between Taiwan and China, and follows Chinese assault drills last week, with warships and fighter jets exercising off the island’s southwest and southeast coasts.The Kidd, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, accompanied by the Coast Guard cutter Munro, transited “through international waters in accordance with international law,”...

Stuart Scheller: Your Move (10min video) Stuart Scheller AITB Commander at United States Marine Corps

Water is the most abundant yet least understood liquid in nature. It exhibits many strange behaviors that scientists still struggle to explain. While most liquids get denser as they get colder, water is most dense at 39 degrees Fahrenheit, just above its freezing point. This is why ice floats to the top of a drinking glass and lakes freeze from the surface down, allowing marine life to survive cold winters. Water also has an unusually high surface tension, allowing insects to walk on its surface, and a large capacity to store heat, keeping ocean temperatures stable.Now, a team that includes...

For months, Chinese authorities have been cracking down on the country’s powerful internet sector, targeting an array of companies over issues from anti-trust to data security. Now, online celebrity fan clubs are the latest to feel the heat. The regime’s top internet regulator, in a bid to rein in what it described as China’s “chaotic” celebrity fan culture, on Aug. 27 barred platforms from ranking celebrities’ popularity and restricted sales of fan merchandise. Restrictions are now slapped on celebrities’ public relations firms, social media accounts of fan clubs, and entertainment programs, with the Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday highlighting...