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FLU season has arrived early, and seemingly more potently, with a flurry of anecdotal stories of the "worst cold ever" circulating on social media - and now sales figures for cold and flu remedies reflect the current situation. With more than a year spent in a Covid bubble, compounded by less social mixing, viruses that cause cold and flu did not have the opportunity to spread as much. Now, as human interaction is on par with pre Covid levels, the viruses are running rampant. One sufferer, Jules Kelly, described her gruelling encounter with the "worst cold ever". "It started with...

In 2005, the city of New York hired the VERA Institute to form a final report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in 2008. They reported that twenty-five children died during the drug studies, that an additional fifty-five children died following the studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the Child Welfare program at VERA (as of 2009), 29% of the remaining 417 children who were used in drug studies had died (out of a total 532 children...

A man was left with an enormous bill when his blind date brought 23 members of her family with her to test his generosity. However, her rather bizarre tactic well and truly backfired (unsurprisingly) when her date known as Mr. Lui, 29, did a runner. The rather ambitious singleton was then left to foot the bill herself, and at a cool $3,100 we’re sure she was less than pleased.In a hope to impress his date, Mr. Lui had agreed to pay for the meal, not realizing that her entire extended family would be joining them.

Florida cops who publicly insisted they had eyes on Brian Laundrie amid the Gabby Petito investigation have admitted they actually mistook him — for his mother. “They are built kind of similarly,” North Port Police Department spokesperson Josh Taylor told WINK on Monday regarding the huge blunder in a case that sparked national attention. Police had set up around-the-clock surveillance last month outside the North Port home where Laundrie lived with his parents after the 23-year-old was named the sole person of interest in his girlfriend’s disappearance.

And, come Saturday, unranked Florida is in for a butt whipping. Course, the best DAWG Evah is Herschel... soon to be a United States Senator from Georgia. When I see that Walker has a competent campaign team, I will start sending him money. Believe me, Trump has already sent him my info. THIS I KNOW. BTW, we'll never gat another Herschel and Auburn will never get another Bo Jackson and that's just the way it is.

A Cook County judge on Monday denied a request by the City of Chicago forbidding the head of the union representing rank-and-file Chicago police officers from defying a mandate requiring city employees to report their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Chicago's lunatic Mayor Lori Lightfoot has denounced police officers who refuse to be vaccinated as "insurrectionists. It is everyone's duty, especially those whose job it is to enforce the law, to obey the law. My order that they must be vaccinated is now the law in this City. Those who break my law need to be arrested and jailed until they voluntarily agree to be vaccinated." Chicago police union president John Catanzara expressed doubt that arresting those who don't want to be vaccinated would be either legal or practical. "Last I heard, this is still a free country," he said....

Furious parents and conservatives have told Barack Obama to apologize to a Loudoun County, Virginia, couple and their daughter who was raped by a skirt-wearing boy in a school bathroom in May, after the former President called the row encircling it 'fake outrage' and a 'phony trumped-up culture wars'. On Monday, juvenile court judge Pamela Brooks ruled that the boy - who has not been named - did force himself on the 15-year-old girl on May 28 in the bathroom at Stone Ridge High School in Leesburg, Virginia. The case drew national attention because the boy was wearing a skirt...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) predicted Tuesday that a long-sought Democratic agreement on President Biden's domestic policy agenda is imminent, saying a deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday afternoon. "The president's working very hard on this, and the Speaker's been working very hard on it," Hoyer said during a press call. "And so there's a lot of work that's been done and I think it could come together relatively quickly in the next few hours." Such a timeline appears highly optimistic — some lawmakers said improbable — given the number of sticking points remaining as Democratic leaders...

This hearing is now live. There is a ton of testimony against the vaccine. One victim talked about his wife taking part in the vaccine trials. When she had a bad reaction to the first shot, she was removed from the trial. And having been removed from the trial, her reaction was also removed from the trial data. So much corruption.

In summer 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother from Wilmington, North Carolina. Smith’s account indicated an interest in politics, parenting and Christianity and followed a few of her favorite brands, including Fox News and then-President Donald Trump. Though Smith had never expressed interest in conspiracy theories, in just two days Facebook was recommending she join groups dedicated to QAnon, a sprawling and baseless conspiracy theory and movement that claimed Trump was secretly saving the world from a cabal of pedophiles and Satanists. Smith didn’t follow the...

The flu can be transmitted asymptomatically, it’s more dangerous to kids than COVID, and its vaccine allows for ‘breakthrough infections.’ Yet the CDC still doesn’t recommend masks for the flu.In stark contrast to the Center for Disease Control’s recommendations that all people over the age of two wear a mask indoors to mitigate transmission of SARS-COV-2, the sections of its website dedicated to seasonal influenza do not recommend wearing masks to prevent it from spreading. Since the battle over mask mandates is most intense with regard to schools, it’s crucial to point out the pediatric mortality rate derived from the...

At least five former staffers in the Trump administration have spoken with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a report by CNN. The five people all spoke voluntarily after lawyers working with the committee reached out directly through email or text, according to CNN. The committee has reportedly contacted a number of former staffers, ranging from those on the junior level to individuals who were more senior.

After an investigation revealed Dr. Anthony Fauci used U.S. taxpayer money for an experiment that involved torturing beagles, a bipartisan group of Congress members last week wrote to Fauci to express their “grave concerns.” I was not surprised by the news — it’s one of many examples of atrocities, approved by Fauci and funded by taxpayers — that I write about in my upcoming book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” #BeagleGate made headlines this weekend after the White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out...

Anthony Fauci is the most prolific mass murderer in American history. The policies he’s promoted and the drugs he continues to push are killing more Americans every day, far worse than Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor or the jihadists who attacked us on 9/11. And yet American corporate media and the Biden-Harris regime continue to paint him as a saint. News has been breaking (technically since August though it only hit the mainstream this week) that Fauci tortured beagles and monkeys in hideous experiments that make the stomach turn. But it’s what he did to AIDS orphans that should really...

Your favorite media might feel uncomfortable spelling it out, but more Americans than not believe the spreading chant of “F*** Joe Biden” and its meme “Let’s Go Brandon” are appropriate. In fact, it’s become so popular that pollsters are asking about it. One of the first was the Trafalgar Group, asking on behalf of the conservative group Convention of States Action. They sent Secrets the findings. First, by a margin of 58%-34%, likely general election voters said that they are familiar with both chants.

Unreliable Haaretz deceving headline about Arabs who fought on British side in WW2On Haaretz "celebrating" a headline about Arab Palestinians fighting on British side based on shaky "research".Many Arabs were not from Palestine but came over from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Many did so with the intention to get arms.Jews paid Arabs to be enlisted.Abbasi chose selective sources, yet neither the quantitative nor the qualitative aspect of his theory is supported by the evidence.Shukairy's own testimony in his book states that (1940) almost no one adhered Britain's call to join a Palestine force to help the Allies.Conclusion:The patched up concocted Abbasi...

Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly distanced herself from President Joe Biden, reducing the number of public appearances together since February. For instance, the Daily Mail reported Harris held 18 public appearances with Biden in February. On February 1, the president had an average approval rating of 53.4 percent and a disapproval rating of 34 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average.

Two men who slipped and fell on a steep rock leading into rough waters at a park in British Columbia were saved thanks to a group of Sikh men who unraveled and removed their turbans to create a makeshift rope. Two men who needed help up a steep rock in British Columbia were saved thanks to a group of Sikh men who unraveled and removed their turbans to create a makeshift rope. The steep rocks led to rough, raging waters near a waterfall. The group of five was hiking toward the waterfall when they saw that the hikers stranded on...

The liberal media slobbered over how President Joe Biden could return the U.S. economy to glory. So far, their optimism has been a bad joke, and a new poll highlights just how badly they missed the mark. New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman spewed in an absurd March op-ed headlined, “The Biden Boom,” that Biden had a “chance to supercharge the economy.” He argued: “Biden’s stimulus will fuel an already restructuring economy and supercharge it.” He said concerning Biden’s gargantuan stimulus that “there are lots of signs that we could be headed for just such an explosion in...