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Social distancing and locking down millions of people around the world has been a real time case study in what staying at home would do to asthma rates, says a health professor.There were fears at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that people with asthma would fare much worse than those without it. Intuitively, a disease that attacks the lungs should put asthma sufferers at much greater risk. But this hasn’t been borne out. It’s turned out people with asthma are at slightly lower risk of acquiring COVID-19, being hospitalised with it or indeed dying from it compared to people...

Be careful what you post online, they always say. Tired of being mistreated by her students' parents, a kindergarten teacher in Dalian, China vented her frustrations online, only to end up being fired from her job and detained by the police. According to reports by media in China, the 28-year-old made the offensive post on Wednesday (Nov 17) that said, "I hope the pandemic doesn't stop, even better if [the number of cases] increase, at least till March next year, that's my happiest wish." What enraged netizens the most was the post's ending, where she expressed her wish for her...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister said Tuesday that every delay in resolving the diplomatic crisis with Gulf nations threatens to affect the lives of more Lebanese already reeling from a massive economic crisis. Bassam Mawlawi said resolving the crisis begins with the resignation of the Cabinet minister whose comments sparked the ire of Saudi Arabia, calling it long overdue. Saudi Arabia, a traditional ally of Lebanon, withdrew its ambassador and asked the Lebanese envoy to leave last month following televised comments by George Kordahi, Lebanon’s information minister. Kordahi said the war in Yemen was futile and called it an...

As you look at the insane reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict, it’s important to understand why we’re here and what kind of people we’ve dealing with. The Sky is Green Theory: We’re at a place now in America like no other time in this nation’s history. A very dangerous place. You see, cultures are held up by pillars. Government, religion, sports, education, entertainment, etc.. Our pillars are all rotted with same sickness: Cultural Marxism The wacko leftist on the street corner you used to mock as you drove by, he now brings you the news. He runs your FBI. He...

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CHINA’S round-the-world hypersonic nuclear weapon fired a second missile while travelling five times faster than the speed of sound, reports claim. No country had previously been able to demonstrate this advanced engineering feat and the test is said to have caught Pentagon scientists off guard.... ...Experts at the Pentagon’s advanced research agency Darpa are said to be unsure how China achieved the feat, as scientists say it "tests the constraints of physics". Military experts are said to have been poring over the data to discover how it was achieved. They are also said to be discussing what the projectile might...

Thirty-four percent of white college student applicants have lied about their race to admissions officials to better their chances of getting accepted into their desired university or receive better financial aid, according to a survey from Intelligent.The survey of 1,250 white college applicants ages 16 and older found that the most popular racial claim was Native American. Out of the 34 percent of white college applicants who lied about their race, 77 percent were accepted.“It’s the easiest lie to tell because you can’t get caught in it,” said Vijay Jojo Chokal-Ingam, an admissions consultant at SOSAdmissions.com and author of “Almost...

COVID-19 has killed more people in 2021 than 2020.The virus was reported as the underlying cause of death (or a contributing cause of death) for an estimated 377,883 people in 2020, accounting for 11.3% of deaths, according to the CDC. As of Monday, more than 770,000 people have died from the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University data. That means over 15,000 more people have died in 2021 than last year from COVID-19 – and there's still more than a month left.This has happened despite the fact that last year no Americans were vaccinated (now 59% of all eligible Americans...

Vladimir Putin's state owned TV issued a chilling threat that Russia may deploy the system to destroy some 32 Western satellites to render Nato missiles useless. It comes after Putin used the weapon to destroy a redundant Soviet-era Tselina-D military reconnaissance satellite - blasting it into an orbital debris storm. Intelligence sources in the West and Russia believe the hunk of space junk was annihilated by the new satellite killer missile system. The weapon has been dubbed the "Star Warrior" by state Russian media and is the next step in an orbital arms race. Putin tested the missiles nine times...

An indigenous Canadian woman who lives nearly 400 miles from her nearest town has become a viral sensation for talking about her life in a remote town of just 90 people. Sinead Meader, from Beaver Creek a community in Yukon on the Canadian- Alaskan border, 338 miles from their nearest town, Whitehorse. In a series of videos, she revealed how she has to travel for five hours to get to her nearest supermarket - meaning she only takes the trip once every five to eight weeks. Sinead, who works as a nutritionist has shared how she has to stockpile food...

The New York City Council is planning to pass a bill that would allow approximately 800,000 non-citizens of the United States to vote in local elections. The “Our City, Our Vote” legislation would allow migrants who hold green cards, those who maintain a legal work status in the United States, and DACA recipients to be granted special voter registration forms to vote in local elections. “The legislation calls for training poll workers and community education campaigns to ensure every voter receives the correct ballot,” The New York Times reported. Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez told the Times that the bill is good...

The lawsuit that was set to be filed at the Supreme Court by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been delayed. The CEO said that more than one state attorney generals would cosign a lawsuit that he was bringing to the Supreme Court which was set to be filed, but as of Tuesday afternoon no filing had been made. But when he appeared on “Real America’s Voice” on Tuesday he said that the details of the lawsuit would be made known during his Thanksgiving weekend marathon on his website. “We’re flying around the last couple of days — it’s been very...

“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief” (Proverbs 24:16).

* The former president's shadow campaign team polled Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin * All five states were decided in favor of Biden by 3 percentage points or less * The team found that in Georgia, Trump is ahead by 3 points, 8 points in Arizona, 12 points in Michigan, 6 points in Pennsylvania and 10 points in Wisconsin Donald Trump has all but formally announced his intentions to run for the presidency again in 2024, and his team is honing in on taking back five states Biden won in 2020 that he'd won in 2016. The former president's...

[H/T HoneysuckleTN]Transcript of Riccardo Bosi's warning ["No consent. No consent. No consent"]Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through...

efying a warning from local militias, a Pentagon official has told Newsweek that U.S. forces will remain in Iraq after the scheduled end of combat operations on December 31. With less than a month and a half left in the year, an ensemble of Iraqi paramilitary factions known as the Iraqi Resistance Coordination Commission shared with Newsweek a message Friday expressing disappointment with the lack of U.S. military drawdown. Following talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in July, President Joe Biden had promised an end to the U.S. combat mission in the country by year's-end. The message expressed skepticism...

President Trump On Meeting Kyle Rittenhouse“Really a nice young man.”pic.twitter.com/c1b7tdOCRz— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) November 24, 2021President Trump discusses his meeting with Kyle Rittenhouse which apparently took place just a few hours ago, immediately prior to Trump’s interview with Hannity.‘He’s a great young man who was railroaded by the media and democrats.’

Kyle Rittenhouse met with Donald Trump at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago club after the teen was acquitted of all charges in his homicide trial last week. The meeting between the two was disclosed during Trump’s hour-long interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. “Kyle I got to know him a little bit. He called. He wanted to know if he could come over and say hello because he was a fan unlike the other guy,” the former president told Hannity. Trump said Rittenhouse visited with his mother and the two left the former president’s Florida resort “a little...

CommentaryFor far too long, China has been the “world’s factory.” That sweater you’re wearing, check the tag. Does it say “Made in China”? Everything, it seems, is made in China—the Walmart of the World.Last year, as other countries were crippled by the pandemic, China’s manufacturing output, according to a Time report, was $3.854 trillion, “accounting for nearly a third of the global market.”As the journalist Srivatsa Krishna has noted, China’s manufacturing output is now “equal to that of the US, Japan and Germany” combined. Moreover, as the world’s largest exporter of goods, China appears to be in a much stronger...