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Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case. Sanna Marin went on a night out in Helsinki on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive. She was initially told she did not need to isolate because she had been fully vaccinated, but later missed a text that advised her to do so. Critics questioned her judgement for not isolating until testing negative. The Social Democratic prime minister, 36, said the text message that advised her to avoid social contact was sent to her work phone, which she...

Global supply shortages have hit toy shops in the US and coffee producers in Brazil. In Canada, the country's liquid gold - maple syrup - is running low. The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (QMSP) - the so-called Opec of maple syrup - has released about 22m kg from its emergency larder, nearly half the total in reserve. Booming demand and a shortened harvest had caused the shortfall, QMSP said. It is the first time in three years the reserve has been used. "That's why the reserve is made, to never miss maple syrup. And we won't miss maple syrup!" Helene...

ransomnote: 30 second video clip available at link. Text of his address shown in the gif below. il Donaldo Trumpo on Twitter: "LOVE MI AMIGO JAIR SPEAKING THAT BEAUTIFUL TRUTH!!! https://t.co/oV6SgzjV87" / Twitter

EARTH—As the villain Thanos continues his campaign of genocide across the galaxy, Earth's mightiest heroes, the Avengers, have decided to retaliate with one of their most feared weapons: a diplomatic boycott. "This time, we have to hit Thanos right where it hurts, by launching a mild attack on his political reputation," said Captain America as he put the finishing touches on a strongly worded letter to Thanos. "If he continues to murder and enslave people by the trillions, we may decide to escalate to a full boycott." "We applaud the Avengers for taking this brave stand," said an op-ed in...

A “deradicalisation” programme like those given to former terrorists or cult members might be the only way to dissuade some hardcore antivaxxers from their beliefs, according to one psychology expert. Around six million eligible people in the UK have not received a single jab a year on from the first Covid vaccination being given in the UK. **** “They’ll refuse anything – ‘I’m not going to wear a mask’, ‘I’m not going to get vaccinated’, ‘I don’t think climate change is happening’, ‘Covid is a hoax’, and, you know, ‘Hillary Clinton is actually a reptilian shapeshifter’. “You’re getting to people...

Five people were wounded and two others killed during Tuesday night shootings in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the first fatal shooting occurred in “the 1800 block of East Lippincott Street” about 7 p.m. and the second occurred in “the 2000 block of East Stella Street” just after 8 p.m. In the first fatal shooting a male was shot in the face and numerous other times in his body. In the second, a 23-year-old man “was shot four times in the head.” NBC Philadelphia notes three people were shot and wounded “inside Ralph’s Bleigh Street...

Lust is not the worst of the seven deadly sins, according to Pope Francis. There are worse indiscretions than sex outside of marriage, the leader of the Catholic Church told reporters on the papal plane while en route from Greece to Italy on Monday, Reuters reported. “Sins of the flesh are not the most serious,” the 84-year-old religious leader said regarding sex outside of marriage. Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred, according to Reuters.

Musk's finally ready to admit that government subsidies distort markets and that government actors are terrible at capital allocation."Say tomorrow, you get a phone call from Joe Biden," asked Wall Street Journal tech columnist Joanna Stern to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a Monday night forum. "And he asks: What are your needs from this [$2 trillion spending] bill? How do you answer him?" "We don't think about it at all, really," Musk said, channeling Don Draper to the tune of the audience's uneasy laughter. "It might be better if the bill doesn't pass," Musk added. "The federal budget deficit...

[H/T Melian]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 transparency...

Jurors took a pause in deliberations and asked the court, “Can we have a copy of the calendar of events?” There had been a display on screen showing the month of January 2019 with specific dates marked off by prosecutors listing what happened on those days. Jurors want copies of it. While Smollett’s attorneys are present, the actor is not. The jurors have been dismissed for the day and will resume deliberations on Thursday morning at 10:15 a.m. ET as long as all 12 jurors have arrived to court by then.

The leader of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter is standing in solidarity with accused race hoaxer Jussie Smollett in a trial the BLM leader claims is a “white supremacist charade.” L.A. BLM leader Melina Abdullah, a former CSU professor and rabid defund the police activist, praised the former Empire actor for his “courage” as he stands trial in Chicago for allegedly perpetrating a fake hate crime. Abdullah railed against the trial in Chicago in her statement, claimed that the American justice system is “white supremacist,” and insisted it is an example of the “corrupt systems are working to devalue...

In 2015, Jonathan LaPook, Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS Evening News, moderated a discussion about bioelectronics. The panel consisted of Francis Collins, Moncef Slaoui, and Kevin Tracey.Bioelectronics is the convergence of biology and electronics. Biological activity can be measured and even harnessed using bioelectronic devices, with key applications in areas such as healthcare monitoring and disease treatment. But bioelectronics reaches well beyond biomedicine.In the description beneath a 2014 promotional video, The Future of Medicine states: “GSK believes that these [bioelectronic] devices could be programmed to read and correct the electrical signals that pass along the nerves of the body.”The Future...

A 14-year-old boy carjacked and sexually assaulted an 87-year-old female at knifepoint while she was returning books to the Waukesha Public Library located at 321 Wisconsin Ave., Waukesha, sources have told WRN. UPDATE: WRN can now report that the suspect is the nephew of Milwaukee Common Council President and Milwaukee Mayoral candidate Cavalier Johnson. Cavalier Johnson did respond to our request for comment: This afternoon, I learned of an incident that occurred in Waukesha County on November 30 where a member of my extended family is accused of a horrific crime. I am saddened and troubled by this news. First...

It appears as though the Democrats made off with a Nebraska electoral vote in the "election" of 2020. As one can see from the following tables, Basement Joe beat President Trump in the environs of the 2nd congressional US House district, 191,556 to 171,138, thus securing that electoral vote. But wait! The Democrats LOST that US House seat in the same counties, 155,706 to 171,071. Did 36,000 Democrats who "voted" for Joek just "forget" to vote for their Democrat House candidate? Inquiring minds want to know.

Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, became much brighter than any surrounding stars. It was seen even over bright city lights. Away from city lights, however, it put on quite a spectacular show. Here Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Comet Hale-Bopp's blue ion tail, consisting of ions from the comet's nucleus, is pushed out by the solar wind. The white dust tail is composed of larger particles of dust from the nucleus driven by the pressure of sunlight, that orbit behind the comet. Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)...

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Erin Foster, 18, and Jeremy Bechtel, 17, vanished on April 3, 2000, after leaving Foster’s home, according to the White County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Steve Page said in a news release members of Foster’s family alerted him on Nov. 28 about YouTuber Jeremy Beau Sides, who uses sonar technology and scuba dives to try to solve missing persons cases on his channel Exploring With Nug. He went to Sparta, Tennessee, last month to search for the car the teens were last seen in. Page contacted Sides and told him to search around Highway 84 in the Calfkiller River, in the...

I think it’s a pretty fair bet that the democrats will be handed their a$$es in the 2022 elections. Given that happens, I think there may be an unusual opportunity to change the political dynamic in favor of conservatives. Why: in my time as a former dem, one thing that struck me about how the faction thinks is that they want to win. Ideology is not all that important, winning is. If the hard left tilt that they’re on isn’t working, I think there will be some receptiveness to different strategies. In that respect, populist conservatives running as dems in...

The major advantage of mRNA vaccines over more conventional approaches is their potential for rapid development and large-scale deployment in pandemic situations. In the current COVID-19 crisis the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been conditionally approved and broadly applied, while others are still in clinical trials. However, there is no previous experience with the use of mRNA vaccines on the large scale in general population. This warrants a careful evaluation of mRNA vaccine safety properties by considering all available knowledge on the mRNA molecular biology and evolution. Here, I discuss the pervasive claim that mRNA-based vaccines cannot alter genomes. Surprisingly,...

This is a comparison of the Nebraska presidential elections of 2008 (Obama) and 2020 (Biden). Some interesting things can be seen in the vote totals.