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Beijing: China on Wednesday registered over 100 new COVID-19 infections, including nine in Beijing, which has already forced several curbs restricting its resident's travel to other parts of the country amid the new surge in infections. China's National Health Commission said on Wednesday that 93 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 16 new imported cases were reported on Tuesday, the highest in a single day in recent weeks. Of the new local cases, 35 were reported in the province of Heilongjiang bordering Russia, 14 in Hebei, another 14 in Gansu, nine in Beijing, six in Inner Mongolia, four each in Chongqing...

In most influenza seasons, the peak deaths occur around the 2nd week of December. We know that COVID tests have pretty much obliterated any record of the flu. QED: We will see an increase in "COVID" deaths over the next month or so, that are really flu deaths. Now, there is a new test coming out which is supposed to differentiate the two, but I have heard it may be worse than the previous test -- and it won't be in effect until the new year, I believe. So while COVID activity seems to be declining -- albeit many times...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could outlaw wildfires? Or legislate against Polar Vortexes? That’s what California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to do with carbon emissions from natural gas, the state’s largest generator of electricity. Just declare it zero-carbon and that’s that. At the end of September, Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 423, controversial legislation that considers natural gas a firm zero-carbon resource by default. But natural gas, a mixture of methane and other hydrocarbon gases, creates copious amounts of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide when burned – whether on a stove, in a furnace, or at a...

Russia’s current coronavirus restrictions are not enough to successfully beat back its highest numbers of daily cases and deaths since the pandemic began, according to officials. The country’s state coronavirus task force on Wednesday reported 40,443 new confirmed cases and 1,189 COVID deaths, a record, since the day prior, The Associated Press reports. The former marks the fifth time in the past week that Russia has recorded over 40,000 cases. With not even 35% of the population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Russia’s current virus situation is exacerbated by the government’s reluctance to enact stricter anti-virus measures. The public, similarly, has...

Bruce Springsteen is reportedly looking to sell his recorded music and publishing catalogs, and he stands to make a massive payday if a deal goes through. The Boss is negotiating with Sony for the sale of his album catalog, though it's unclear yet whether the company will also purchase his publishing rights, Billboard reports. The publication estimates his album catalog to be worth between $145 and $190 million, while his publishing could fetch between $185 million and $225 million. Springsteen's combined catalogs are estimated to be worth between $330 million and $415 million, and sources say the superstar's camp is...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not examining changing the definition of “fully vaccinated,” its director said Wednesday. “The definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and two doses of the either Pfizer vaccine or the Moderna vaccine,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the agency, or the CDC, told reporters during a virtual briefing. “And we’re not examining changing that definition anytime, at this point,” she added. Walensky was questioned about the definition because federal health officials recently decided to let tens of millions of Americans get booster COVID-19 vaccine shots,...

Ronnie Wilson, a founding member of the famed R&B and funk group The Gap Band, has died, his wife confirmed Tuesday. He was 73. "The love of my life was called home this morning, at 10:01 am," Linda Boulware-Wilson said in a Facebook. "Please continue to pray for The Wilson, Boulware, and Collins family, while we mourn his passing" "Ronnie Wilson was a genius with creating, producing, and playing the flugelhorn, Trumpet, keyboards, and singing music, from childhood to his early seventies," she added. "He will be truly missed!!" In 1967, Wilson founded the group with his brothers, Charlie and...

Leading medical journal The BMJ has published an incendiary report exposing faked data, blind trial failures, poorly trained vaccinators, and a slow follow-up on adverse reactions in the phase-three trial of Pfizer’s Covid jab.Central to the exposé is Brook Jackson, who, for two weeks, served as regional director at Ventavia Research Group, the company contracted to assist with the pivotal trial. She provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails supporting her concerns.Jackson reveals that Ventavia staff who conducted quality-control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were identifying. She repeatedly informed...

A TikTok video of students walking out of a pro-life presentation has gone viral. Archbishop Riordan Catholic High School in San Francisco planned an assembly with speaker Megan Almon of Life Training Institute (LTI), and offered an alternative venue for students who did not wish to attend. Instead, some students chose to attend the pro-life talk solely for the purpose of staging a walkout (and apparently for the purpose of gaining attention via social media) before even hearing what Almon had to say. “Instead of listening to the speaker, a majority of the student body stood and walked out of...

Translated from Italian to English using Google Translate: According to the new report (which had not been updated since July) 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. It seems a bizarre and no vax statement, but 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...

In a night of news coverage devoted to the racial undertones of the Virginia gubernatorial election, MSNBC failed to devote any significant coverage to the election of Republican lieutenant governor candidate Winsome Sears, who became the first black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia history. MSNBC's main political panel of commentators Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace, who argued throughout Tuesday night's election coverage that Republicans ran a racist campaign in Virginia, did not mention Sears a single time as it watched returns come in. The 57-year-old Jamaican immigrant and Marine veteran ran at the top of the...

Imagine wearing a t-shirt… Or displaying a poster… Or waving a flag… Emblazoned with the face of a brutal killer who openly expressed racist anger at blacks and indigenous peoples, and undisguised disgust for gays. Well, it's not something you have to imagine. It's done every day. Somewhere on a college campus or at a "social justice" protest somebody is celebrating a psychopath. The famous face, of course, belongs to Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

It was a rough day for President Biden’s woke military, where pronoun hospitality trumps the ability to defeat the enemy.The U.S. Marines surrendered to British Royal Marines during a joint training exercise in the Mojave Desert, Sky News reported. “The Ministry of Defence explained that the battle exercise was testing the deployment of the new Littoral Response Group (LRG) in a guerrilla war-fighting facility on the west coast of America against well-equipped US Marine Corps opponents,” the British network reported.The simulated battle took place during Exercise Green Dagger, at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms,...

It is well-known that eligibility for euthanasia in Belgium is elastic. However, there are limits. The law only permits the euthanasia of minors who are capable of discernment and who are conscious. But, according to a recent brief report in the Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal edition, Flemish doctors euthanise 10% of newborns for whom there is “no hope of a bearable future”. This statistic is taken from a study based on 24 babies who died in Flanders between September 2016 and December 2017. The numbers are small, admittedly, but the proportion of new-borns who died after...

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that families separated at the border under the Trump administration's so-called zero-tolerance policy will not receive payments of $450,000, but he did not go into detail about any possible monetary settlements for them. Biden, following remarks about Covid-19 vaccine authorization for children ages 5 to 11, was asked if payments of that size might incentivize people to try and enter the country illegally. The President responded by calling the report "garbage.""It's not true," he said. In 2018, the Trump administration announced its "zero tolerance" policy, in which the Justice Department initiated criminal prosecutions of every...

CommentaryIn July Japan’s Vice Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama told the Hudson Institute that China and Russia could launch a surprise “Pearl Harbor-style attack” in the Pacific. The Washington Examiner and Reuters quoted Nakayama as insisting the United States and Japan must demonstrate the will to deter both China and Russia because “they are doing their (military) exercises together.” They conduct exercises from “Honolulu to Japan,” which means America’s “protection line is going … backwards ….”Nakayama said China would likely target Taiwan. But that threatens Okinawa (a Japanese island with U.S. bases). Mid-Pacific exercises demonstrate targeting Hawaii and the West Coast,...

CommentaryIn July The National Interest published an essay entitled “Can America Lose to China?” written by Kishore Mahbubani, a fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute and a former Singapore U.N. Ambassador.The essay focuses on the China-U.S. political, economic, and social competition. Mahbubani begins with an observation: Americans believe “an open society like America has many natural advantages” over China’s autocracy. By assuming inherent advantage, “Americans cannot even conceive of the possibility of losing out to China.”That may well be true, though not quite in the way he frames the problem.I disagree with several of Mahbubani’s subsequent...

A woman was shocked to find a king cobra sleeping on her bed. The local rescue team was notified on 2 November 2021 at 20.30. The team along with snake experts went to a home located in Makam District, Chanthaburi Province. The woman is Janhom Bamrungchai 55 years old the owner of the home. Janhom stated a big cobra snake slithered into her home and was now on the bed. Officials arrived at a single story home and Janhom was waiting outside, still shocked by the recent discovery. The team went to her bed and slowly lifted the mosquito net...

Last night may go down as one of the most decisive elections in the last half-century, if not longer. While most of the nation was focused on the gubernatorial contest in Virginia where Republicans swept all statewide offices–they’ve been shut out since 2009–and regained control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, hopefully retiring Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe for good in the process, a lot of good things were happening in other places.In New York City, a former NYPD captain, Eric Adams, won the race for mayor. His win, per se, was not a shock but his nomination was. He seems much...

Why would the F.B.I. hide the existence of drone video of the riots? Drones were flying over Kenosha on the night of the shooting at around 9,000 feet. The low res video was handed over but the F.B.I. say they 'no longer have the high res. During a discussion today in court it was mentioned the 'fixed-winged aircraft' was flying 9,000+ feet. Drones were likely flying over the American cities during the BLM/Antifa $2 billion+ destruction riots. Yet no charges filed? They've got folks on video committing dozens of felonies. Insurance usually doesn't cover 'civil unrest' so these are total...