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Merck's new 'not Ivermectin' Covid-19 treatment, molnupiravir, costs $17.74 to produce - yet the company is charging the US government $712 for the treatment - a 40x markup, according to The Intercept, citing a report issued last week by the Harvard School of Public Health and King’s College Hospital in London.Molnupiravir pill from Merck. Photo: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.The pill, originally developed using US government funds as a possible treatment for Venezuelan equine encephalitis, cut the risk of hospitalization and death in half in a randomized trial of 775 adults with mild/moderate Covid who were considered at high risk...

Last week, PJ Media covered the hysterical and threatening letter written by National School Boards Association (NSBA) president Viola Garcia. In the letter sent to none other than President Joe Biden, Garcia accused America’s concerned parents of threats, intimidation, and even “hate crimes” rising to the level of “domestic terrorism” for having the gall to speak up at their local school board meetings. The NSBA also requested “federal assistance to stop threats and acts of violence against school board members, school officials, and teachers.”This week, however, the leaders of almost two dozen parent organizations fired back with a scathing letter...

A rare toilet cubicle from the First Temple Period, which was part of an ancient royal estate that operated at the end of the Kings of Judean period (7th century BCE), was discovered on the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Jerusalem, where the Israel Antiquities Authority and the City of David, about two years ago, uncovered the remains of a magnificent building which overlooked the City of David and the Temple Mount, including the private toilet cubicle.

Vaccine protection found to wane in Israel after 5 or 6 months, especially among seniorsIsrael's fierce fourth wave of COVID-19 cases may be in retreat, but the country is on the offensive against the coronavirus once again — with an unprecedented round of vaccine boosters for everyone older than 12. As of this week, millions of Israelis who were considered fully vaccinated with two shots lose that status unless they get one more. Their "green pass" will hit a red light, once again denying them access to public places like restaurants, gyms and movie theatres. "I think it's an aggressive...

When it comes to conflicts of interest, Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to have a huge one.Merrick's daughter, Rebecca Garland, is married to the co-founder of an education resource company that pushes critical race theory - which angry parents across the country are protesting. Taking matters into his own hands, AG Garland tapped the FBI on Monday to huddle with local leaders to address a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence" against teachers and school board members.As the Conservative Treehouse writes:Well, well, well… This is interesting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin...

I can’t think of anything more bone-chillingly terrifying than being past repentance with almighty God, that point where the person’s heart is so stone-cold hard, they will not listen to the call of God’s Spirit. Unfortunately, there are those who have said “No” so many times, it has gotten easier and easier until it eventually reached the point of zero interest in God or anything associated with Him. They have advanced to the point of hatred and total indifference toward God. Can these folks be saved? Yes, but God is not going to drag them across Heaven’s threshold. Even though...

Shouldn’t there be? A jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on a number of charges, including second- and third-degree murder, in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin plans to appeal, but there’s one problem — his union won’t cover the costs: ---SNP--- Those points would make for a lively appeal — if Chauvin had a lawyer. Nelson either can’t or won’t represent him on appeal, and the court won’t provide Chauvin a public defender:

Taylor Swift fans have bad blood with Scooter Braun, and one Democrat hopes this might help him become the next governor of Virginia. Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has purchased a series of ads aimed at fans of Swift, tying his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, to the contentious sale of her master recordings, The Verge reports. In 2019, record executive Scooter Braun's company Ithaca Holdings purchased Swift's record label Big Machine Label Group, obtaining control of the singer's masters in a purchase she spoke out against and is controversial among her fans.

From October 2-4, 2020, the American Institute for Economic Research hosted a small conference for scientists to discuss the harms of the Covid-19 lockdowns, and maybe hint at a path back to normal life. Organized by Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya, the conference made a scientific case for shifting away from the heavy-handed lockdowns of the initial Spring 2020 outbreak. On their final day together in Great Barrington, the scientists wrote a short statement of principles, calling it the Great Barrington Declaration. This Declaration, their Declaration, touched a nerve well beyond the scientific community, and well beyond anything...

After earlier claiming that only two injections would be necessary in order to obtain a “green pass,” the government of Israel is now forcefully demanding that all Israelis received a third jab of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) in order to maintain the “privilege” of buying and selling.As many as two million Israelis who took the first two “vaccines” from “Operation Warp Speed” but not the third recently lost their green passes, according to reports. Until they comply, these double jabbed people will now be considered “unvaccinated” in the eye of the government.“The new guidelines stipulate that a person retains their...

It’s sad to say, but some people just have to learn the hard way. A polish doctor died just days after taking the experimental COVID injection. The cause of death, we are told, was heart failure. However, what’s most ironic is that he recorded a video of his injection while mocking anti-vaxxers.Take a look.I do not speak his language, but translators have said this is what he said before taking the experimental injection. If you have any corrections, please click the contact button and send me an email.“Vaccinate yourself to protect yourself, your loved ones, friends and also patients. And...

Local mother Stacy Langton stood before the Fairfax County School Board in a suburb of the nation’s capital two weeks ago, boldly exposing explicit examples of child porn and pedophilia in library books in area schools, available to children as young as 12 years old.Langton’s witness ended in mayhem because the school board failed to do something very simple: listen to the stakeholders — and taxpayers — who are parents. Board members rudely interrupted Langton during her two minutes of allotted speaking time and called a hasty recess, a board member later incorrectly claiming that he faced two “exorcisms” by...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday broke his silence about a whistleblower's testimony, in which the company was accused of prioritizing profits over the wellbeing of its users, by alleging that a "false picture" of the social media giant was being painted. "Now that today's testimony is over, I wanted to reflect on the public debate we're in," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that was also sent to company employees. "I'm sure many of you have found the recent coverage hard to read because it just doesn't reflect the company we know. We care deeply about issues like safety,...

One census was ordered by God. The other was instigated by Satan.God said that numbers do matter. He ordered a counting of all the people of Israel shortly after the people fled Egypt. You can see the specific mandate in Exodus 30:12-14. An entire book of the Bible is devoted to the progress and results of the census. The book is aptly named Numbers.But another census of the people of Israel was clearly instigated by Satan. The Bible is straightforward on that matter in 1 Chronicles 21:1: “Satan rose up against Israel and caused David to take a census of...

Studying the genomes of modern humans from 26 worldwide populations, researchers discovered the genetic “footprint” of an ancient coronavirus outbreak. Studies like this one could help identify viruses that have caused epidemics in the distant past and may do so in the future. A new study co-authored by a University of Arizona researcher has discovered a coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, with traces of the outbreak evident in the genetic makeup of people from that area. In a paper published in Current Biology, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500...

CNN host Don Lemon repeatedly called on social media companies to start regulating the opinions and posts of its users Tuesday, declaring that there should be "consequences" for those who post untrue information on any platform and the true identities of users should be known.

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s recent testimony about the social media giant. Blumenthal said the Senate Commerce Subcommittee would be asking Zuckerberg to testify. He added that the tech CEO “has an obligation” to tell the public about how it is “amplifying and weaponizing hate speech, disinformation, but also the anxieties and insecurities of teenagers.”

"We need tribunals!" - Matt Bracken I was reading about the process on how to convene them and came across the International Criminal Court's website which contains a lot of information and past cases etc. It looks like we would need a 'State Party' to refer Fauci, Gates, Daszak, etc. to the Court. A state that has ratified the Rome Statute (Here's a list). I think the crime of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' are the most relevant charges. Insights welcome! Here's the process below FYI: How the Court worksThe crimesThe Court's founding treaty, called the Rome Statute, grants the...

PARIS - On Monday, Oct. 4, major social media applications run by Facebook, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and the social media giant itself, all went dark worldwide for several hours. Not only did the outage prevent billions of users from accessing these services, but even those who only signed up for a Facebook account so they could access various third-party services with a simple click via their Facebook login were denied access to all those services, too. If this was you, then it should be your wake-up call to rethink your dependence on - and vulnerability to - technology. Cybersecurity experts...

Francis S. Collins’s announcement that he will step down as the director of the National Institutes of Health at the end of the year raises the question of whether Anthony S. Fauci should follow suit. [cut] Fauci, 80, does not run the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but he has been a senior advisor to both presidents who have battled the covid-19 pandemic and has presented himself as the face of the nation’s public health bureaucracy. Either by choice or under orders, he put himself at the center of every controversy — appearing...