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Salignostics completes clinical trials of revolutionary SaliStick home test kit for pregnancy, based on its technology for detecting Covid-19.Peeing on a stick will soon be as obsolete as the “rabbit test” thanks to SaliStick, a revolutionary saliva-based rapid pregnancy test kit. The product has successfully completed clinical trials and thousands of analytical trials in Israel and is expected to receive the European Union’s CE Mark soon. Approval by the US FDA could come next year. SaliStick was developed by Jerusalem-based Salignostics based on its proprietary saliva-based hormone detection technology used in the company’s SaliCov rapid antigen saliva test kit to...

“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool” (Proverbs 17:10).

The jury in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial asked for extra copies of jury instructions, including pages that offer instructions on self-defense, CNN reported. *** SNIP *** The charges include first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment. Rittenhouse, now 18-years-old, pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, claiming self-defense in all three cases. The judge gave the jury 11 additional copies of pages 1-6 of the jury instructions, according to CNN. Of those six pages, two outline self-defense instructions, CNN reported. One page focuses on "crimes requiring intent to kill" and...

Twitter, Facebook deemed defendant guilty immediately after Wisconsin shooting Social media platforms rendered a verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse long before he went to trial, suppressing claims that he was innocent and blocking users from searching for details of the case. Immediately after the anti-police riots that thrust Rittenhouse into the national spotlight, social media companies began to block users who expressed support for the Illinois teen. Twitter suspended the accounts of users who called Rittenhouse innocent, including the defendant's own lawyer. Facebook said it "designated this shooting as a mass murder and … removed the shooter’s accounts from Facebook and...

(CNN)The horse patrol incident in Del Rio, Texas, that drew swift condemnation from senior Biden administration officials will not be investigated by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, the department announced Tuesday. US Customs and Border Protection had referred the incident -- where Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively confronted migrants -- to the watchdog, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility is now investigating the incident, the department said, adding that the office has reviewed videos and photographs and interviewed witnesses, employees and CBP leadership....

"Friendsgiving" seems to be the buzz word amongst the liberal crowd these days. Sheesh, a local News 5 anchor, when doing a story about this kept saying "Thanksgiving".

The simplest way to construct a wormhole is to "extend" the idea of a black hole with its mirror image, the white hole. This idea was first proposed by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, hence the reason wormholes are sometimes called "Einstein-Rosen bridges". This creates a tunnel through space-time. Einstein and Rosen constructed their wormhole with the usual Schwarzschild metric, and most analyses of wormholes use that same metric. So physicist Pascal Koiran at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France tried something else: using the Eddington-Finkelstein metric instead. His paper, described in October in the preprint database arXiv, is...

Former co-host Jedediah Bila was shut down Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” after saying she was not vaccinated. Co-host Joy Behar said, “Let’s address the elephant in the room because you were supposed to join us in the studio weeks ago, but you couldn’t because ABC has a very strict policy. You can’t get into this building unless you’re fully vaccinated. Everybody in this room knows that and is vaccinated, but you made a conscious decision not to get the vaccine. Now the CDC says a person is ten times less likely to be hospitalized from COVID and 11 times...

SCOOP: ⁦@HumanEvents has obtained both versions of the Kyle Rittenhouse drone video The low quality version provided to the defense The HD version that was withheld from the defense team The HD version clearly shows Kyle did not aim his rifle at the Ziminskis Jack Posobiec Twitter

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A pair of drug busts at a Texas border crossing netted nearly two tons of narcotics with an estimated street value of more than $53 million. Both seizures took place on Nov. 12 "at the World Trade Bridge" in Laredo, Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Earlier that day, border officers inspected a tractor-trailer transporting a shipment of fresh cauliflower from Mexico. A drug-sniffing dog and an X-ray helped border officers uncover hundreds of packages of drugs. The semi allegedly was hauling 412 packages containing 2,611 pounds of methamphetamine and another 50 containing...

In a surprising interview, Bill Gates said the following: “We didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmission. We need new ways of doing vaccines.”It’s odd how he speaks of medicines as if they are like software. Try it out, observe how it works. When you find a problem, put the technicians to work. Every new iteration is an experiment. Free to try until you finally buy. Surely over time, we’ll find the answer to the problem of blocking or blotting out pathogens. Software. Hardware. Applications....

274 journalists were in jail due to their work as of 2020, a figure that exceeds the high of 272 recorded in 2016. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, this is the fifth consecutive year that over 250 journalists are behind bars.China is the worst jailer with 47 journalists identified as being in prison there. Turkey came second with 37 while Egypt came third with 27.You will find more infographics at StatistaChina and Turkey have consistently vied for the unenviable title of the word's worst jailer of journalists.In line with President Xi Jinping consolidating his control over the country and implementing...

Today in "efficient government spending" news, the NY Times was caught celebrating the fact that President Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill will keep MTA fares stable and MTA service "robust".But the punchline is that the NY Times admits that the fares will only stay stable for "at least six months", leaving the door wide open for hikes before the end of 2022. All the result of "receiving billions of dollars" from the infrastructure bill. The Times also celebrated the fact that the bill would "defer drastic service cuts", as if service from the MTA could possibly get any worse.Gov. Kathy...

News AnalysisChinese leader Xi Jinping cannot seem to get a break. Perhaps he does not deserve one. This year, he has faced Evergrande, real estate excesses generally, a renewed spate of COVID-19 infections, and sporadic power shortages across the country. Most recently, Beijing has had to deal with a food panic.It seems that a poorly thought-out government communication prompted fears of shortages and the inevitable hoarding. The authorities have had to walk back their directive, a rare enough event in China at any time, but more interesting is what the panic implies about public thinking. Understandably, Chinese people are skittish...

...Lt. Col. Mike "Vago" Hilkert, a pilot with the 303rd Fighter Squadron, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross last month for heroism during what has been described as "one of the most intense combat rescue missions of the Afghanistan war." During that six-hour fight on April 23, 2011, Hilkert not only coordinated the warfighting efforts of 21 aircraft over dozens of frequencies, but he also intentionally put himself and his plane in harm's way repeatedly to draw enemy fire away from rescue helicopters. The Air Force said Hilkert also helped save the lives of more than 30 people....

Gas explosions occur frequently throughout China. The first half of the year saw an average of three per day, according to official data.In the first six months, 544 gas explosions took place around China, resulting in 71 deaths and 412 injuries, said Sohu, a Beijing-based media, quoting a report released by the Safety Management Committee of the China Gas Association.Gui Yuan, a current affairs commentator, who lives in Japan, believes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) gas delivery system is to blame for the frequent accidents in China.“To renovate aging gas pipelines takes many efforts, but the CCP authorities merely want...

The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating “questionable vials” labeled "smallpox" and found in a freezer last night at a Merck facility outside Philadelphia, according to an alert sent to Department of Homeland Security leadership on Tuesday night. There were reportedly a total of 15 questionable vials, according to the unclassified "For Official Use Only" alert, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News. Five of the vials were labeled as “smallpox” and 10 were labeled as “vaccinia." The vials were secured immediately. The discovery of the vials prompted a lockdown of the facility,...

Herd immunity against the virus that causes COVID-19 may be impossible to reach, a federal health official said in little-noticed remarks earlier this month.“We would discourage a strict goal of a threshold where we think if we reach that, that community transmission will then cease,” Dr. Jefferson Jones, a medical officer on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 Epidemiology Task Force told a panel of the agency’s vaccine advisers.“I think thinking that we will be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones said.Herd immunity,...

Kyle Rittenhouse has been on trial under claims by the left that he’s a dangerous, violent psychopath and a white supremacist, yet for a lot of people who want to see him locked up because he’s a danger to society the people who are against him seem to be quite okay with threatening violence against innocents to get their way.As reported by the Daily Mail, Judge Bruce Schroeder has received a number of death threats, including wishes of death on his kids. The Mail said it reviewed “hundreds of offensive communications” sent to Schroeder, many containing basic insults and accusations...

On the latest episode of “The Jimmy Dore Show,” comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore highlighted the similarities between Pfizer’s expensive new antiviral drug for COVID and ivermectin, a generic drug used to treat the virus.“I’ve never seen the propaganda machine so hard at work as it’s been against ivermectin,” said Dore. “Ivermectin won a Nobel Prize for human medicine in 2015, but the media really has everyone believing it’s for horses.” Dore suggested the motivation behind the propaganda is profits.Dore played a video of John Campbell, Ph.D., explaining how Pfizer’s antiviral and ivermectin treat COVID in “the exact same...