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Two longtime House Democrats, Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania and David Price of North Carolina, announced their retirements on Monday.

An Indian woman claims to have had her first child at the age of 70, making her one of the oldest first-time mothers in the world. Jivunben Rabari and her husband Maldhari, 75, proudly showed off their son - whose name they have not revealed - to reporters as they said he had been conceived through IVF. Rabari has said she does not have ID to prove her age, but told reporters it was 70, which would make her one of the oldest first mothers in the world. However, another Indian woman, Erramatti Mangayamma, is believed to be the oldest...

Let's Wait Patiently For Joe To Destroy The Democratic Party. By JAG Regarding POTUS Joe: My personal political strategy is to wait patiently until liberal policy-excesses lays upon the American electorate sufficient severity motivating them collectively to move back to the conservative right to correct the liberal policy excesses. Yes there is a human cost to this approach. However, there is no legal alternative. America is a democratic republic and the American electorate eventually get what they really and truly want. So? So if they want Joe and Joe's political policies, they must be willing to pay the price in...

A Miami private school has mandated that students who receive a COVID-19 shot stay home for 30 days after each dose - citing debunked claims that newly vaccinated people can shed the virus. School officials at Centner Academy in the city’s Design District sent home a letter to parents informing them of the controversial, new policy, news station WSVN reported. “Because of the potential impact on other students and our school community, vaccinated students will need to stay at home for 30 days post-vaccination for each dose and booster they receive and may return to school after 30 days as...

The unexpected drop in statewide school enrollment last year of 160,000 students may prove to be a blip, ready to rebound as the coronavirus recedes. Or that one-year 2.6% drop could be an oversize harbinger of what demographers are predicting will be a decade-long enrollment decline in California.

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The number of deaths from Corona vaccination in Taiwan reached 852 on October 7, Medical Trend reported. The number of deaths after a Covid-19 diagnosis was 844. The Taiwan Ministry of Health issued a “Post-COVID-19 Inoculation Adverse Event Notice” according to which Taiwan began vaccinating on March 22 this year. From that day to October 6, the number of post-vaccination deaths in Taiwan has reached 849. The highest number of deaths reported after vaccination with AstraZeneca, at 643. After the vaccination with Moderna, 183 deaths were registered and after the jab with the vaccine Medigen produced by Taiwan, there are...

[Catholic Caucus] Press Review: “Traditionis Custodes” in the Context of the Current Crisis (2) There have been many comments and analyses of the Motu proprio Traditionis Custodes this summer. All place the decision taken by Francis to limit the celebration of the traditional Mass as much as possible in the context of the crisis which is currently shaking the Church, but with very different perspectives.On August 6, there appeared on the Correspondance européenne site, under the pen of Cristiana de Magistris, an article which sees in Traditionis Custodes the act of a weak power: “the document does not appear...

PBS News Hour, Oct 18, 2021 https://youtu.be/ACw9xvVp5YM?t=13m18s Garry Pierre-Pierre of Haitian Times (to Yamiche Alcindor): Kidnappings started years ago... basically targeting Mulato class... thought that they have money... then the darker skinned rich Haitians were targeted. And then steet vendors were targeted, just about anybody could be kidnapped in Haiti, so.. we've seen foreigners targeted. a French priest... and we saw churches, kidnapping pastors and parishioners live on Facebook... everybody is on set except White Americans everybody is afraid of the US government. But with this kidnapping Saturday, it shows to us clearly, that is not a concern any more....

Yesterday Maria Bartiromo opened her Sunday talk show with a note that beltway speculation is stirring about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell possibly stepping down. WATCH:Nancy Pelosi may STEP DOWN soon. Now that’s very interestingWhile there’s nothing specifically cited to support Ms. Bartiromo’s statement as a DC insider and member of the council on foreign relations, there has long been evidence that both Pelosi and McConnell will exit. Here’s why it makes commonsense:♦ For Nancy Pelosi – Joe Biden is an appointed figurehead for a background agenda driven by Obama’s Chicago Marxists. The Biden far-left...

A 17-year-old girl was abused by hospital staff and had a plastic bag placed over her head as what the staff and administrators called "standard procedure" in a Texas medical center. https://tv.gab.com/channel/realstewpeters/view/plastic-bag-put-over-teen-covid-6165e74f380c8a9e03ccd34c?fbclid=IwAR3Fra6VMwXAh3kzN__GiFFEzv4zdsvhP76Em_d2wDhAHIeaHaWeEtOhTUA

Pope Francis compares Black Lives Matter protests to Good SamaritanThe protests frequently turned into riots, and groups affiliated with the movement have anti-Catholic positions, including on abortion.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — In an address to the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Saturday, Pope Francis advocated for the destructive “protests” which broke out in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, describing those involved in the movement as “collective Samaritans.”The Pope’s comments came as part of a longer speech on social justice, part of which he devoted to urging “all the great pharmaceutical laboratories” to open their patents on...

Explanation: Why can we see the entire face of this Moon? When the Moon is in a crescent phase, only part of it appears directly illuminated by the Sun. The answer is earthshine, also known as earthlight and the da Vinci glow. The reason is that the rest of the Earth-facing Moon is slightly illuminated by sunlight first reflected from the Earth. Since the Earth appears near full phase from the Moon -- when the Moon appears as a slight crescent from the Earth -- earthshine is then near its brightest. Featured here in combined, consecutively-taken, HDR images taken earlier...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has faced a flurry of criticism from Republicans for taking paid parental leave with his husband and two newborns. But Buttigieg wants to refocus the conversation on another topic entirely: climate change. “Inevitably, every transportation decision is a climate decision, whether we acknowledge it or not,” Buttigieg said in an interview with The Climate 202. “So I think that's absolutely part of our mandate and part of our set of responsibilities as a department.” **SNIP** Cars and trucks account for the bulk of the sector's pollution, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency. And in...

BREAKING REPORT: Chicago Threatens to Withhold Retirement Benefits From Police Officers Who Retire Rather than Submit to City's COVID Vaccine Mandate.. https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1450220258204258311

The rape of Loudon County, Virginia parent Scott Smith’s daughter by a biological male wearing a skirt in the girl’s school restroom shows the wisdom of President Trump reversed the Biden/Obama administration’s “guidance” to schools and educators to permit transgender restrooms. The move was condemned as bigotry when it is just common sense. You don’t tempt fate. You don’t store flammables next to an open flame and you don’t have boys using the girls' restroom. Loudon County officials were well aware of the history of cross-gender restroom assaults as they considered their transgender restroom policy, particularly the rape of Scott...

Colin Powell, 84, died Monday morning due to complications from Covid-19. Powell was fully vaccinated against the virus, his family said in a statement. Powell was elderly, a known risk for severe Covid, and suffered from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that studies show can make the shots less effective. A study published in late July found that only 45% of patients with active multiple myeloma developed an "adequate" immune response after getting vaccinated with either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines. Just 22% of patients in the study had a "partial" response.... Offit said fully vaccinated people with weak immune...

Former President Donald Trump says he would not mandate COVID-19 vaccines if he were still in office because he’d “sell it” to people to take voluntarily. President Biden last month announced that most federal workers must get vaccinated or face losing their jobs and that companies with 100 or more employees must require shots or regular testing — drawing pushback from critics who accused him of overreach. “I wouldn’t say to anybody, ‘You have to.’ But I would sell it. Look, I’m very proud of what we did with the vaccines,” Trump told political news host Bill O’Reilly in an...

The chaotic moves in various energy markets around the world have spread to the metals markets with copper inventories available on the LME plunging to the lowest on record (since 1974), in a dramatic escalation of a squeeze on global supplies that sent spreads spiking and helped drive prices back above $10,000 a ton. Copper tracked by LME warehouses that’s not already earmarked for withdrawal has plunged 89% this month after a surge in orders for metal from warehouses in Europe.As Bloomberg reports, the last time that type of dynamic developed was during a historic squeeze in 2006, when a...

Some governors have noted President Joe Biden’s lack of engagement with states regarding the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. His administration continues the practice of weekly conference calls with governors, which started under President Donald Trump, but Biden himself has yet to attend. His vice president, Kamala Harris, has only briefly attended one call and took no questions, according to several governors. The lack of engagement has disappointed some governors, who said they can’t even tell if their feedback, questions, and requests are reaching the president or not. Some have stopped attending the calls, considering them no longer useful....