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Shortly after the ‘War Against COVID’ began, the government designated two new categories of American citizens -- the largely arbitrary classification of ‘essential’ and ‘nonessential’ workers. Firefighters and paramedics were deemed essential, for good reasons. But now, like their colleagues on the frontline in the medical profession, these brave men and women -- once heralded as heroes -- are now scorned as villains. In the state of California, they have gone from heroes to zeroes in the eyes of despotic Democrats, who have given them an ultimatum: get vaccinated or get fired. In August the Los Angeles City Council voted...

That’s what we have -- an unanswered guess that was given a Nobel Prize. This past week, Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for research that led to early computer models of the Earth's climate. On the face of it, some people might think this is a grand achievement. In reality, unlike many Nobel-worthy accomplishments that are based on hard data or newly known processes, this one was simply a guess. Incredibly, we still don’t have an answer, more than 60 years later. As the BBC reports, “It is incredibly difficult...

Viruses and other infectious organisms have been around since long before humans walked the planet. While many microorganisms are helpful and necessary for human survival and function, others bring disease and death. Immunity is what prevents humans from being wiped out by a particularly virulent bug. The CDC defines immunity as “protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.” How does one achieve immunity? As the CDC explains, there are two ways. Natural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual...

There is little evidence that Marxists attempt to make life better for their people. In communist Yugoslavia, where I lived for a year, Marshall Tito claimed at least 34 villas as his "home," though officially all were "owned" by the state. Many of these palatial homes were seized from the nation's former royalty, the Karađorđević family. Just like communists everywhere, Tito appropriated both the properties and the lifestyle of his predecessors. As far as ordinary Yugoslavs were concerned, the only difference was that the communists were more brutal than the royals. of Yugoslavia In reality, the "vanguard of the proletariat,"...

China is banning the export of phosphate, a major component of commercial fertilizer, through 2022. “Fertilizer prices have increased dramatically in recent years, and the news coming from China will more than likely help this trend continue,” said Theresa Sisung, field crops specialist for the Michigan Farm Bureau. “Farmers should talk to their retailers sooner rather than later to discuss their options for purchasing fertilizer for their 2022 crop needs.” According to John Ezinga, vice president of agronomy at Michigan Agricultural Commodities Inc., the move will adversely affect prices. “Growers are going to feel it,” Ezinga said. “Look at your...

The boss of Intel says the US chipmaker is no longer considering building a factory in the UK because of Brexit. Pat Gelsinger told the BBC that before the UK left the EU, the country "would have been a site that we would have considered". But he added: "Post-Brexit... we're looking at EU countries and getting support from the EU". Intel wants to boost its output amid a global chip shortage that has hit the supply of cars and other goods. The firm - which is one of the world's largest makers of semiconductors - says the crisis has shown...

Wokesters have too much power and we don't know how this will end. From George Orwell's 1984 "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." And to paraphrase Orwell's Animal Farm, the paint is not yet dry on the side of the barn, and they are already changing the rules to...

This is NOT a Halloween costume and they are not members of the Addams Family.

The Biden admin’s announcement that they will quadruple at-home rapid testing by December is very welcome. We need a moonshot for testing, as we did with vaccines. There should be enough #covid19 tests for every American to get tested twice a week. And testing should be free.

Democrats roll out radical redesign of U.S. flag

Many in the West see the US pullout from Afghanistan as a geopolitical disaster and an epic tragedy for those left behind under Taliban rule. The Taliban and other radical Muslims see their takeover of Afghanistan not only as a military victory but as a fulfillment of Islamic prophecy. The Taliban Twitter page carried this message: “Black flags will arise from Khorasan and nothing will be able to return them.” Joel Richardson, the author of the best-selling book The Islamic Anti-Christ, explained why this Islamic prophecy is so important on CBN’s recent webinar, “Afghanistan: What’s Next After the US Pullout.”...

Hunter Biden has sold at least five prints of his artwork for $75,000 each as a team of lawyers works to vet people who plan to attend his spring gallery show in New York City. The prints were sold from Georges Berges Gallery in Los Angeles before the Oct. 1 opening of his pop-up presentation. It is unclear which reproductions were sold or if any other works were sold once the LA show opened. The buyers also remain a secret. However, a source familiar with the sale told the New York Post that 'most of those allowed to buy works...

A radical Islamic preacher has been jailed for a maximum of nine years for selling drugs to an undercover police officer. Mohammad Junaid Thorne, 32 was being watched by a terrorism taskforce in 2018 when he struck up a partnership with the operative. The court heard he arranged a phone with encrypted technology to ensure their communications were kept under wraps. Over the following months, he and his girlfriend of the time sold him $66,000 worth of cocaine and $34,000 of MDMA in multiple deals at Newington and Guildford. Thorne was arrested and charged in July 2019. The court heard...

The Australian Union Conference (AUC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has appointed Lyndelle Peterson as a part-time Ministerial Association associate secretary after the AUC Executive Committee created the position in May 2021. Peterson is the first female Seventh-day Adventist pastor to be employed to work across all areas of the Ministerial Association, including ministry development, resourcing, and working with conference Ministerial leaders to develop and implement strategies to support and inspire pastors around Australia. ...The AUC Executive Committee also voted to introduce a Women in Pastoral Ministry (WiPM) scholarship, which will assist women already studying or thinking about studying ministry...

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The Russian Federation and China claimed in a joint statement that the military biological activities of the United States and its allies pose a ‘serious threat’ to their national security. The two countries stated that they “reaffirm their conviction that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is essential as a pillar of the international peace and security, and their determination to safeguard the authority and effectiveness of the Convention.” Over the past two decades, the BWC States Parties have failed to reach an agreement...

A Pennsylvania woman was charged Thursday with stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, reports said. Riley Williams, 22, was also accused of selling or getting rid of the Hewlett-Packard computer, which has yet to be found, according to KDKA-TV of Pittsburgh. Williams was arrested in January after investigators saw cellphone video, allegedly recorded by her, that allegedly showed her taking the laptop from Pelosi’s office during the riot but the Justice Department waited eight months to formally indict her. The suspect was released on home confinement with an ankle monitor, United Press International reported....

“I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate” (Proverbs 8:12-13).

Giancarlo Esposito has a plan for how to handle the unvaccinated: put them all on an island. The Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul actor, 63, shared his two cents in The Hollywood Reporter's story about the chaos in Hollywood over some actors refusing to get the COVID vaccine while there's no universal vaccine mandate in place for sets. The Mandalorian star's take? "If you don't want to vaccinate, go to a small island and sequester yourself," he said. [Otherwise] you're saying '**** you' to all you other human beings. We all have to do it if we want to...

The View cohost Joy Bewhar[sic] said Thursday that black people don't need to be afraid of the COVID-19 vaccine anymore because white people did it as an "experiment." Co-host Sunny Hostin said she was struck by the number of Americans who remain unvaccinated and that the solution may be "fear" — 56% of Americans are fully vaccinated, while 65% have received one dose. Only 46% of black Americans have received at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine as of Oct. 4, according to CDC data. “I also remember the ad campaign, this is your brain, this is your brain...