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A Texas community is dealing with the spread of an intestinal parasite that inhabits the guts of humans and other animals and excretes larvae during defecation. The Guardian reports 16 residents in Rancho Vista, Texas -- located within an hour from Austin -- were notified that they were infected by Strongyloides after giving blood and stool samples to a noted university conducting a study researching the spread of the parasite. The report confirms the individuals included a woman who was pregnant and a 2-year-old child. Strongyloides are capable of contaminating soil due to a sewage leak and surviving up to...

Biden's impassioned comments came during a press conference on the passage of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. He was questioned about his remarks earlier in the week when he was asked about reports that his administration was preparing to pay separated families up to $450,000 per individual, which Biden said was "not gonna happen." The president on Saturday said he was specifically referring to the dollar amount that had been reported, not the concept of compensating separated families entirely. The payments would come as part of settlements with separated families suing the government over treatment during the Trump era. Under...

Francis: “You Are Really Communists! Congratulations, Go Ahead"Two communists, Andrea Ferroni, and a female companion, with a shoulder bag featuring Antonio Gramsci (+1937), a founding member of the Italian Communist Party tried to enter the Vatican on October 27.They were immediately stopped by police but answered that "we have an appointment with the Pope." Francis’ secretary confirmed that this was true.The two belong to the youth section of Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation Party) which still uses hammer and sickle, a symbol outlawed in many countries.Repubblica.it (October 29) explains that “the similarities in thinking between Jorge Mario Bergoglio's social message and...

Ever since the night of Aug. 25, 2020, when two people were shot dead in the streets of Kenosha and a third person seriously wounded, the question hasn’t been who did it but whether Antioch teenager Kyle Rittenhouse would get away with it. As the first week of his murder trial came to a close, I must report that you shouldn’t be surprised if he does. I’ve always believed it would be difficult to find 12 jurors who would agree to convict Rittenhouse of the most serious homicide charges against him if only because the case is an intersection of...

DENVER, Colo. — Facebook announced it's going to stop using facial-recognition software. The software provides users with suggestions to tag people in photos and videos that are posted on the social network. Facebook says it also plans to delete data it had gathered, which is associated with over a billion people’s faces. “Why they are doing it is an interesting question,” said Casey Fiesler, a professor of information science at the University of Colorado. “Facebook is one of the last major tech companies to make this move.” Business technology journalist Shibani Joshi said this decision is happening just as Facebook...

"SDNY just sent a team into James O’Keefe’s home in New York" is all there is.

Police are currently ruling out a terrorist motive.

FBI raids Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's home in New York over Biden daughter's diaries. Today's raid on journalist O'Keefe's home was conducted by both federal investigators and federal prosecutors in Manhattan. It was ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice (NYT)

The latest version of the House Democrats’ massive $1.7 trillion reconciliation bill contains a provision guaranteeing four weeks of federal paid medical and family leave, even if you’re unemployed.The provision in question is buried deep in the Build Back Better Act as Democrats desperately try to get legislation across the finish line after a GOP trouncing at the polls on Tuesday.Click the link below to read the rest of this story.(Mad Nan)

On Nov. 3 U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron (SPCS) catalogued a new object alongside Shijian-21 with the international designator 2021-094C. The object is noted as a rocket body and more precisely an apogee kick motor (AKM), used in some launches for a satellite to circularize and lower the inclination of its transfer orbit and enter geostationary orbit. Apogee kick motors usually perform a final maneuver after satellite separation so as to not pose a threat to active satellites through risk of collision. However both Shijian-21 and the SJ-21 AKM are side by side in geostationary orbit. It is...

Florida Republicans have officially reached a milestone they’ve been trending toward for nearly a decade — outnumbering registered Florida Democrats for the first time in state history. Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the achievement for Republicans at the National Conference of State Legislatures Friday morning. “Today for the first time in the history of Florida we’ve now overtaken Democrats,” DeSantis said to applause, then joking that Republicans would have won the New Jersey governor’s race if all the Republicans hadn’t moved to Florida.

[H/T Blu]Oh, you're a woke-poke employer eh?You think hiding behind OSHA -- or the threat to issue a mandate by the government -- in some way prevents you from being liable for injuries and/or deaths related to the vaccines?Uh, how would you like to defend that position in court given all of the following are true:The PREP act has no provision giving you legal immunity and cannot be amended by executive order as it is law, so you would need both houses of Congress to pass such a thing -- and they have not.The producing firms and health care providers...

Sometimes, Stan Evans liked to say when conservatives scored a big win, you just have to take the sweet with the sweet. And Tuesday’s election results were pretty sweet indeed. And the left’s reaction on MSNBC and in the rest of the media remind me of the New Yorker cartoon of the two dogs at the bar, where one dog says, “It’s not enough that dogs succeed; cats must also fail.” In this case, it is not enough to win just about everything; we also must get the treat of watching the left freak out and double down on racism,...

Story of 1970 Hit: Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum: How a Jew wrote a song about Jesus. By the time the song went to #1 around the world, he was not rubbing shoulders with rock stars but herding goats in Petaluma, CA.

It is an economic rule which free market philosophers like Adam Smith have tried to explain to governments and monopolists for centuries: Less liberty and more centralization equals less production and less overall wealth. Governments and central banks have sought to circumvent this rule by printing money from thin air, thinking that they can create wealth while at the same time suffocating public financial interactions and trade with authoritarianism. This, of course, only leads to inflation or stagflation, and thus wealth is never actually created, it is projected like a hologram in order to trick the masses into thinking that...

The entire football team at Crenshaw High School has been sidelined and won’t be able to participate in the playoffs because they don’t have enough fully vaccinated players to compete. Under LAUSD’s vaccine mandate, students who want to play on sports teams must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Football teams must have at least 18 players who are fully vaccinated to compete, and Crenshaw only has 13, according to district officials. The Cougars, typically a crown jewel within LAUSD, will not be able to play their first round City Section Division 1 playoff opener against South Gate’s South East High...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDX30jwHYA Next: Allardyce T. Merriweather's philosophical justification for his fraud. An A-moral swindler. Like Fauci in point of fact, who is well invested in the policies he has pushed. "Those Stars Twinkle in a Void"---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YeRBXEUTY

Russia is now experimenting with the use of nuclear-warmed water that is being pumped from a floating reactor into people's homes in a remote Siberian town. Developed by Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, it makes use of heat that's vented as steam through the cooling towers of the barge's nuclear fission plants, which would otherwise be wasted. As well as homes in Pevek, the town’s community steam bath will also be nuclear-powered. It could even be used to warm greenhouses or provide heat for industrial purposes, too. Pevek residents cannot opt out of getting nuclear-powered heat, even if they have...

FREETOWN (Reuters) -At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said....Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port city, said initially in a post on Facebook that was later edited to remove the reference....Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the port city, said initially in a post on Facebook that was later edited to...

Racing league NASCAR has attacked the “Let’s Go Brandon” chant, castigating the sport’s conservative fans in favor of a political alliance with the corporate media and the Left.Steve Phelps, the president of the corporation, said that NASCAR does not want to he associated with the saying, which originated from an interview following a race. An NBC personality misheard NASCAR fans chanting “F*** Joe Biden,” instead translating the words from the crowd as “Let’s Go Brandon,” believing the fans to be referencing driver Brandon Brown.“It’s an unfortunate situation and I feel for Brandon, I feel for [NBC News personality] Kelli,” Phelps...