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Stocks should continue to climb a “Wall of Worry”… The atmosphere has changed dramatically since earlier this year. Individual investors are now fearful. They expect lower stock prices to come, and they fear high valuations. Those fears are both overblown, as I explained yesterday . But another misunderstood market fear is weighing on investors’ minds today… Again, it sounds scary, but it isn’t. It’s just another addition to today’s Wall of Worry. Let me explain… The Federal Reserve just started the process of ending its “easy money” policies… It announced plans to reduce its bond-buying program last month. It has...

"REVEREND KEARNEY": Vaccination is an "Act of Justice" "The core value of my life is to love my neighbor as myself and that was an integral part of why I decided to get vaccinated." "There's actually very little in the Bible about protecting our rights, but there's a lot about responsibility to one's neighbor." "I believe it's an act of not just compassion, but an ACT OF JUSTICE to get the vaccine to make sure that our community can be more protected."

At least 23 travelers have been killed in northwest Nigeria in an attack by the same armed groups blamed for killing thousands this year in Africa’s most populous country. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he is “very distressed” over the attack that occurred Monday.

@glennbeck Kyle Rittenhouse tells me he is admitted to Arizona State University and will go IN PERSON, despite student protests: "I have as much of a right as anybody else to go to a school I want to go to ." Clip...

A federal judge is siding with Project Veritas over its request for an independent party to review the cellphones the FBI seized from the group's founder James O'Keefe. On Wednesday, District Court Judge Analisa Torres from the Southern District of New York is ordering a "special master" to be appointed to oversee the review of O'Keefe's devices, citing "potential First Amendment concerns." "The Court recognizes, as other courts in this district have concluded, that ‘the Southern District prosecutors have integrity and decency,' and the filter team alone could conduct the review ‘with utmost integrity,’" Torres wrote. "However, the Court determines...

@disclosetv JUST IN - U.S. Senate votes 52-48 to repeal Biden's federal vaccination mandates. Bill now goes to the Democrat-controlled House.

John Durham pushed back on Michael Sussmann’s claims that former FBI General Counsel James Baker undermined the special counsel’s false statements indictment against the Democratic lawyer, contending evidence from five government employees, including Baker, supports the charge.The indictment against Sussmann centers on a Sept. 19, 2016, meeting between him and Baker in which Sussmann pushed debunked allegations of a secret back channel between Russia’s Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization. Durham contends that while Sussmann told Baker he was not working for any particular client, Sussmann was secretly doing the bidding of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and billing his services to...

* Researchers at the University of California-Riverside published results of a study that analyzed donated brain samples.* They focused on the form of tau proteins, which can be either right-handed or left-handed.* Researchers discovered that those who had a “different handed” form of tau proteins along with brain plaque and tangles also had dementia. Scientists in California tried to study Alzheimer’s disease from a different perspective and the results may have led them to the cause of the disease. Researchers at the University of California- Riverside (UCR) recently published results from a study that looked at a protein called...

“When the winds of change blow, some build walls while others build windmills..”Evergrande will default, but the Chinese economy will probably avoid a property contagion crisis as the government becomes increasingly interventionist. Longer term, how will China evolve to cope with Covid, Growth and Demographics?I’m going to go off on something of a tangent on China today. It can hardly come as much of a surprise to markets that S&P says Evergrande’s default is “inevitable”. (One of my highly coveted No Sh*t Sherlock awards is on its way to the US debt rating firm for stating the downright bleeding obvious).Evergrande’s...

His Majesty King Hamad will officially inaugurate the largest Roman Catholic cathedral in the Arabian Peninsula on December 9 at 11am. A notice posted on its website added that The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, in Awali, will be consecrated the following day, on December 10, at 10am by His Eminence Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of People. The Cathedral of the Kingdom of Bahrain is located in the municipality of Awali and is finally preparing to be consecrated and inaugurated in the coming weeks, immediately after the liturgical Solemnity of the Immaculate...

Experts in the UK say that an explosion in new heart illnesses in younger patients can be explained by a new condition called “post-pandemic stress disorder.”Yes, really.A London Evening Standard report quotes senior vascular surgeon Tahir Hussain, who works at an NHS hospital in London.“I’ve seen a big increase in thrombotic-related vascular conditions in my practice,” said Hussain.“Far younger patients are being admitted and requiring surgical and medical intervention than prior to the pandemic.”Hussain said that the cases are “a direct result of the increased stress and anxiety levels caused from the effects of PPSD (post-pandemic stress disorder).”He also said...

Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody unveiled online tools on Dec. 3 that workers can use to easily report violations of a new law requiring employers to accept exemptions to vaccine mandates.The new online documents clearly explain the rules, and the process, for employees wanting to opt-out of getting COVID-19 vaccines, and describe the way violations will be handled. COVID-19 is the illness caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.By clearly defining the process, and providing links to easy-to-complete forms, Moody has not only given the new law “teeth, but it also provides some legit tools for uninjected employees facing...

The House of Representatives late Wednesday passed legislation to ban all goods from China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang over concerns about forced labor.The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which passed the Democrat-led chamber by an overwhelming vote of 428-1, now heads to the Senate. It would need to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only lawmaker who voted against the measure.The measure would create a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods from Xinjiang, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set up a vast network of detention...

Don’t live in fear, don’t live in isolation, [and] don’t take the poison death shot,' Dr. Zelenko said. Dr. Vladamir Ze’ev Zelenko, who is credited with pioneering the early treatment protocol for COVID-19 involving hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc sulfate, recently became very candid with regards to the entire COVID-19 enterprise, the perilous situation the people of the world are facing, and his call for the “God-conscious” to resist rapidly advancing government and media tyranny. Candor is not a quality that Zelenko has lacked over the last 21 months since he wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump announcing his...

Once again, two equally committed, diametrically opposed sides collide. One, the hood ornament of the Democrat COVID hysteria card. The other, the shining light of the future of the Republican Party, dripping with executive talent, who had way enough of the first guy shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began.I’m referring of course to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Florida’s popular Republican governor, Ron DeSantis — a political steel-cage death match if there ever was one. Speaking of which, I’d sign up for pay-per-view for that one.Our story begins with DeSantis on Tuesday —...

A medical doctor was stripped of his ability to treat patients after he pioneered an in-hospital COVID-19 treatment protocol using generic FDA-approved drugs.Pulmonary (i.e. respiratory) care physician Dr. Paul Marik spoke with Truth for Health Foundation CEO Dr. Lee Vliet in the “Fired for Freedom” conference held on December 7, 2021. Marik is the co-founder of the Frontline Critical Care COVID Alliance, one of the first organizations to develop a successful multi-drug protocol for treating COVID-19 patients hospitalized in critical care units.The chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and practiced at Sentara Norfolk General...

Good glucose control is important for reduction of cancer risk in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Large durable weight loss, as such, appears to afford protection against cancer, but with good glucose control the number of cancer cases also drops radically, a new study shows. In patients with obesity, cancer risk, too, can be reduced after major, long-lasting weight loss. However, there have been relatively few studies on the association. That obesity is a risk factor for both type 2 diabetes and several types of cancer is a known fact. Similarly, intentional weight loss through, for example, bariatric surgery often...

A study recently published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) proposed that wireless communications radiation, including 5G, may contribute to COVID-19 symptoms.The evidence for the connection between COVID and 5G, as well as other forms of wireless communications radiation (WCR), consisted of two main findings: the statistical correlation between COVID-19 symptoms/mortality and area-specific WCR intensity, including that of 5G; and the overlap between WCR effects on the body, and COVID-19 symptoms.Authors Beverly Rubik and Robert R. Brown began by drawing attention to a May 2020 study showing a “statistically significant correlation between the intensity of radio-frequency radiation and...

US President Joe Biden Wednesday signed an executive order mandating that the US federal government become carbon neutral by 2050. The order relies on a variety of clean energy initiatives, including transforming the government’s fleet of 600,000 vehicles into electric cars by 2035. In a statement, the Biden administration said the “whole-of-government effort to tackle the climate crisis” must happen “in a way that creates well-paying jobs, grows industries and makes the country more economically competitive.” “The executive order will reduce emissions across federal operations, invest in American clean energy industries and manufacturing, and create clean, healthy, and resilient communities,”...

Weakening muscles are a natural part of the aging process, but for some people with a condition called sarcopenia the decline is abnormally fast. A new study suggests that the early stages of sarcopenia could be counteracted with timely interventions designed to preserve physical and cognitive function and manage chronic conditions. As we age, we start to lose muscle mass and function. When this decline is more extensive or rapid than expected, it is categorized as sarcopenia, a common condition in the elderly that often lowers their quality of life and increases the risk of falls and bone fractures. Researchers...