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According to the new report from the Higher Institute of Health on mortality from Covid, the virus that brought the world to its knees would have killed far less than a common flu. According to the statistical sample of medical records collected by the institute, only 2.9% of the deaths registered since the end of February 2020 would be due to Covid 19. So of the 130,468 deaths registered by official statistics at the time of preparation of the new report only 3,783 would be due to the power of the virus itself. Because all the other Italians who lost...

President Biden inadvertently disclosed Tuesday that one of his granddaughters works for billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who briefly was one of his Democratic primary rivals. Biden made the revelation during a press conference in Glasgow, Scotland, when he called on reporter “Jen Epstein of the Wall Street Journal” to ask him a question. Epstein corrected the president that she works for Bloomberg News, which is owned by the financial entrepreneur, who was mayor from 2002 to 2013. “Excuse me. I beg your pardon,” Biden told Epstein. “I hope — I got it. I got it, especially since...

In the least cannibalistic way possible, would you eat a burger that tastes like human meat? Would it change your mind if the producers of that burger said they had done extensive research on the taste? The opportunity was there for diners in Sweden after Oumph! developed The Human Meat Burger. Luckily, Oumph is a world-renowned plant-based company and rather than using actual human meat, the organisation used its plant-based products. The project was developed by the company’s co-founder Ankan Linden who said it was a promotion to show people how to eat plant-based. “We developed this burger in no...

Royal Marines commandos 'dominated' US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today. British forces took part in a five-day mock battle at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California, one of the largest military training areas in the world, and achieved a decisive victory against their American counterparts. The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent...

"Terry McAuliffe ran the milquetoast campaign he wanted to run — where every other word he uttered was ‘Donald Trump’ instead of focusing on the issues voters cared about the most," the groups wrote. "What happened in Virginia is what happens when Democrats fail to take on the GOP’s divide-and-conquer racism and motivate people to turn out," they continued. "The McAuliffe campaign had no comprehensive pro-worker economic message against a literal private equity magnate. It had no positive message on what the next four years would be like for Virginians. It had no rebuttal to Republican race-baiting bull----. Put simply:...

Plasmonic Condensed Matter Nuclear Fusion Katsuaki Tanabe Kyoto University, Japan E-mail: tanabe@cheme.kyoto-u.ac.jp The intensity and density of the triggering energy supplied to activate the nuclear fusion reaction are key factors to produce a smooth and reproducible initiation of the reaction. We previously proposed and numerically analyzed a scheme to provide high-density optical or electromagnetic energy to fusion-fuel materials by lasers and plasmonic field-enhancement effects, to significantly increase the reaction probability [1–6]. Large degrees of field enhancements, or energy focusing, were observed around metal nanoparticles and nanoshells [1], planar metal surfaces [2,3], metal/oxide interfaces [5], sharp metal tips [4], and metal...

As a student of Bible prophecy for almost 30 years, and specifically end times Bible prophecy, no other time has seemed as close to the end times as right now. Why do I say this? Because, particularly in the past year, the geopolitical and economic stage has been set for the fulfillment of several end-times prophecies. We now have several potential crises on the horizon. And those potential crises are the same ones the Bible says we’ll experience either in the Tribulation or the days immediately preceding the Tribulation. Below are just a few: The Gog of Magog War The...

It's unlikely that China will make some kind of move on Taiwan within the next two years, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said on Wednesday. Milley's comments came amid heightened tension in the region and U.S. reassurances that it would stand with Taiwan against Chinese aggression. Milley was asked on Wednesday whether he thought China was preparing to make a move on Taiwan within the near future.

What comes to your mind when you hear the expression, “waiting for the other shoe to drop”? For many, it signifies the anticipation of an inevitable event, often with negative consequences. According to Idioms Online, the phrase has been around for a long time: “This expression probably has its origin in boarding or rooming houses of the early 1900s, where residents were crowded into multiple tiny rooms and the walls were thin, or from multi-floor apartment dwellings in cities like New York and Chicago, where one tenant’s bedroom was always directly underneath another. So, when someone came home and took...

Cisco has updated its COVID-19 vaccination policy for US staff to make the jabs mandatory – even for those who work remotely. The new policy, a copy of which was obtained by The Register, requires "all US-based employees (including US Territories), regardless of whether you work remotely or in a Cisco facility, be fully vaccinated … or have an approved medical or religious accommodation, by December 8, 2021." Staff were informed of the policy in an email sent late last week. They have until November 5 to apply for medical or religious accommodations. Workers who don't qualify for those accommodations...

The shipping backlog at two Southern California ports is throwing a major wrench into the US economy. Ships can't be unloaded because of California environmental regulations restricting the type of trucks that will be allowed to haul the freight containers and the insistence that unvaccinated truck drivers cannot be permitted to enter the area where the containers stored before being shipped out across America. President Biden's order that the ports remain open 24/7 has done nothing to unjam the blockage cause by the inapt previous regulatory restrictions. This has inspired a follow-up idiotic measure aimed at stimulating the transport of...

Democrats smarting from election losses in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday are feeling new pressure to act on President Biden’s domestic agenda in the face of political headwinds that appear all but certain to cost the party its already narrow majorities in Congress. Factions negotiating over the massive reconciliation package traded blame for the drubbing even before the polls closed. By Wednesday, new fissures emerged as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) added four weeks of paid family leave to a bill even as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), one of two moderates at the center of the negotiations, signaled he...

Winsome Sears thanks voters, America and starts a USA - USA chant.

West Palm Beach, FL—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he was holding a press conference today, but upon arriving at the media availability, the event turned into more of a rally for his “Election Integrity” initiative that he has been pushing since the 2020 presidential election, and now during the “Brandon Administration.” Gov. DeSantis touched on all the “Big Tech” and “Election Integrity” red meat talking points the crowd of about 300 came to hear, but it wasn’t until he took a big swipe at Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the roof came down. “A...

Sharks and tourism at what cost? Joseph Troy, July 25, 1936 (Death) Ida Parker and Kristin Orr, September 4, 2014 Cleveland Bigelow, August 13, 2017 William Lytton, August 15, 2018 Arthur Medici, September 15, 2018 (Death) Julie Dimperio Holowach July 27, 2020 (Death) This is a list of people across New England that have had their lives significantly altered by 'encounters' with (great) white sharks. Some have survived the unprovoked attacks; others are no longer with us. Notice the distinctive increase in shark attacks in just a four-year period. The debate over how to respond to the dramatic increase in...

THIRTY-FIRST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 14:25-33 Friends, in our Gospel today, the Lord offers one of the greatest, most “slap you in the face” challenges he ever offered. “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother . . . and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” There is the great spiritual principle that undergirds the entire Gospel: detachment. The heart of the spiritual life is to love God and then to love everything else for the sake of God. But we sinners, as St. Augustine said, fall into the trap of loving the...

BREAKING: @dbongino announces he is creating a "fund" to help employees fired by Cumulus over its controversial vaccine mandate, pledging $250K of his own money. Ultimately, he says he wants the fund to help people across the nation, including cops and first responders

Former Vice President Al Gore went from making Armageddon climate predictions that didn’t pan out to running point for China’s alleged “commitment” to end its overseas coal financing. Gore offered cover for the communist state of China, slobbering over how Chinese President Xi Jinping “made a very significant commitment to end all of China’s financing of overseas coal plants, and they were building 72 percent of them. So that’s a major commitment.” He continued: “[Xi] also made a commitment, almost a year ago, to reach net zero.” A May report from BBC illustrated how ridiculous Gore’s pro-China propaganda is: “Report:...

CNN commentator Van Jones said Glenn Youngkin's in the Virginia governor's race could be evidence of the emergence of "the delta variant of Trumpism." Jones suggested that Youngkin, who welcomed Trump's endorsement in the contest but also sought a distance from the former president, represented the same kind of politics as Trump. But Jones said it came in a packaging that could be better sold to voters and that might help the GOP win elections. "When this election is over we will know, have we seen the emergence of the delta variant of Trumpism," Jones said Tuesday evening during CNN's...

A friend of Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people during Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year, testified that the teenager was "freaking out" after the shooting. Dominick Black said in court Tuesday that then-17-year-old Rittenhouse was pale and "really scared" after he fired shots at an Aug. 2020 protest that followed the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. Black added that Rittenhouse said he had to shoot them because "people were trying to hurt him," according to The Associated Press.