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Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to create a new social media app after Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc barred him from their platforms this year won an endorsement from investors on Thursday who sent shares in a shell company backing the effort soaring. Trump Media and Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp, a Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle, said on Wednesday https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-donald-trump-launches-new-social-media-platform-2021-10-21 they would merge to create a new social media app called TRUTH Social. Trump’s company said it plans a beta launch next month and a full roll-out in the first quarter of 2022. Shares of Miami-based Digital...

Here's what's behind the continued decline of independent practiceThis is the main story in a series examining how trends in healthcare ownership are impacting physician practice. Click here for a sidebar on what physician autonomy means today, and here for a sidebar on how private equity in particular is driving employment trends.Sterling Ransone, Jr., MD, is a third-generation family physician. But even one generation ago, the practice of medicine was much different. Though Ransone followed in his father's footsteps as a rural family doctor, he didn't do so in the same shoes. From 1957 to 1990, his father practiced solo...

https://youtu.be/M_5vGa4weYQ Two quick hits on a Thursday afternoon Brandon Phone Prank https://youtu.be/TVso8trJ_5o

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sounded off on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. McConnell slammed the “irresponsible” and “reckless” spending proposal. He added that “the American people didn’t vote to turn this country into Bernie Sanders’ socialist vision.”

The new social network founded by former President Trump may violate the terms of use of the software on which it is based. On Wednesday night, after Trump revealed the TRUTH social app, Twitter users began to note that the network appeared to be based on an open-source social networking software called Mastodon, which allows people to modify the underlying code so long as they abide by its license.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday said he offered to change his party affiliation to an independent amid tough reconciliation negotiations with President Biden and the far-left. Manchin told reporters he had offered Biden and the far-left to become an independent if he become an “embarrassment” to the Democrat Party.

President Biden on Wednesday told a false story — for the fourth time since taking office — about an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri who supposedly boasted about his train ridership during his final year as vice president. Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014, CNN reported in June — making it impossible for Negri to have spoken with Biden during his final year as VP, which would have been in 2016 or the first month of 2017. The president retold the tale, which he called “a true story,” in Scranton, Pa., to underscore his commitment...

One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice. Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border?Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history?A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out?The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels?Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring?Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences?Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months. Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the...

ST. LOUIS, MO—Local liberal Joe Bailey has for years enjoyed cheering on his son Brandon at his Little League soccer games, but lately that has proven difficult, since his cheering typically involves shouting the insurrectionist chant "Let's Go Brandon" from the stands. "I try to be so careful, but every so often in the excitement, I let slip a ‘Let’s go Brandon!’" said Bailey. "Then all the parents join in chanting, the game devolves into fits of laughter, and all the Trump supporters are trying to give me a high-five. It’s horrible!" According to sources, Mr. Bailey has thought about...

Kevin Galalae has published his research in a document titled: PCR Tests and the Depopulation Program. He concludes “the coronavirus blamed for countless deaths real and imagined is a political fiction. The symptoms attributed to Covid are caused by a deliberate three-pronged attack on our health and lives by our own national and international authorities.”The deliberate three-pronged attack is summarised as follows:damage the epithelium of the nasopharyngeal cavity with PCR test swabs to bring down the immune defences that protect our braincreate a closed loop between the mouth and the nose, thus between outgoing and incoming air, by forcing us...

The demand that every health care employee must take the COVID vaccine or be fired is forcing the Central Maine Medical Center to curtail services available to patients. The hospital asked the Governor's office to allow a COVID testing option in order to avoid losing critical staff, but was denied by Gov. Janet Mills (D). "Like President Biden, I've also lost patience with people who refuse to get vaccinated," Mills said. She professed herself "unimpressed with the fact that so many medical practitioners are refusing to be vaccinated. While I am grateful for the hazards and sacrifices these doctors and...

COVID-19 injections have been presented as the only solution to stop the pandemic. Mass vaccination has occurred on an unprecedented scale, and as of October 2021, 6.54 billion doses of COVID-19 jabs have been administered, equating to 47.6% of the world population having received at least one dose.1The mass injection effort, however, has failed to stop the pandemic, and a study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology has released bombshell data showing that increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination in 68 countries worldwide and 2,947 counties in the U.S.2By Dr Joseph MercolaData Show Jabs Aren’t Working...

‘The Marine corps taught me not to mess around’ Details — Gas station in Yuma, Arizona VIDEO AT LINK.........................

Dr. Malik Peiris, who previously served on the Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 origins investigation committee, received China’s “Nobel Prize” for research concluding that COVID-19 developed naturally.Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19.While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort.Following Peiris’s stint on the task force, the Chinese Communist Party awarded him...

What? You expected us not to make a juvenile joke in the headline of this story? Listen, most of us around here are still amused by bodily functions, so this shouldn’t be unexpected. What was unexpected for a Halton Police officer earlier this week was a contractor who failed to tightly secure the trailer hitch ball on their truck’s drawbar. According to a video posted to Twitter by the attending officer, the truck and trailer in question were bounding along Dundas Street when the gendarmes spotted something amiss at the hitching point. Closer inspection revealed the ball on which the...

New York Stock Exchange-listed shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. — the special purpose acquisition company that announced Wednesday evening it will merge with former President Donald Trump’s new social media firm — soared more than 200 percent Thursday. DWAC’s stock price began trading Thursday at $12.73 per share and reached as high as $33.44, up more than 200 percent, by 1:00 p.m. ET. Shares of the company were halted for volatility at noon, with the stock up more than 134 percent. Shares were last seen trading at $31.55, up more than 210 percent. Trump’s newly formed company, Trump Media...

The sad death of Colin Powell should bring more needed attention to the phenomenon of breakthrough COVID infections of the fully vaccinated. You can choose to believe the establishment that breakthrough infections are nothing to worry about. Just a minor inconvenience because COVID vaccines are not and cannot be 100% effective. Or you can consider real world data that show how serious breakthrough infections really are. Department of Defense study A recent release of data from an important study by the Department of Defense merits very serious attention. It is called the Project Salus study. One indication of how important...

Surveillance video shows a retired U.S. Marine taking a gun away from an alleged armed robber who entered a Yuma, Arizona, convenience store early Wednesday morning. CBS 13 reports that the incident occurred in a Chevron gas station when three suspects entered the store, one of whom was allegedly armed. The retired USMC, who was near the counter when the suspects walked in, immediately turned on the alleged armed suspect and took away his gun. FOX 8 notes that the former USMC was able to detain the suspect after disarming him, but the other two suspects fled the scene. Upon...

Do black lives really matter? Apparently it depends on who we’re asking. In what seems counter intuitive in 2021, the answer from conservatives is generally yes, in that they believe all lives matter, regardless of color. They will tell you that society and government should strive to be colorblind and that someone should never get less or more based on the color of their skin. The goal is to get government out of the way and let all citizens pursue freedom and opportunity equally, regardless of color. For liberals however, the answer is quite different. They say “Yes! Black Lives...

A man in China died as the result of drinking a 1.5-litre bottle of Coca-Cola within ten minutes, his doctors have written in a report in Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. The 22-year-old, who is not thought to have had underlying conditions, went to the emergency department at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital following acute upper abdominal pains and swelling, which had lasted for four hours. Upon inspection, he had an elevated heart rate of 130 beats per minute, low blood pressure, and a breathing rate of just 32 times per minute. A CT scan showed that there was a...