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Unknown disease has killed 89 people in northern town of Fangak, Jonglei state The World Health Organisation has sent a rapid response team to investigate Samples taken by local health officials returned negative results for cholera A World Health Organization (WHO) taskforce has been sent to South Sudan to investigate an unidentified illness which has killed 89 people. The country's ministry of health reported that an unknown disease had killed scores of people in the northern town of Fangak in Jonglei state. The WHO sent a rapid response team of scientists to the area, which is one of the worst...

Apache has patched the vulnerability in its Log4j 2 library, but attackers are searching for unprotected servers on which they can remotely execute malicious code. A serious security vulnerability in a popular product from Apache has opened the floodgates for cybercriminals to try to attack susceptible servers. On Thursday, a flaw was revealed in Apache's Log4j 2, a utility used by millions of people to log requests for Java applications. Named Log4Shell, the vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of affected servers, a situation that has already prompted hackers to scan for unpatched systems on which they can remotely...

A pair of over-the-counter compounds has been found in preliminary tests to inhibit the virus that causes COVID-19, University of Florida Health researchers have found. The combination includes diphenhydramine, an antihistamine used for allergy symptoms. When paired with lactoferrin, a protein found in cow and human milk, the compounds were found to hinder the SARS-CoV-2 virus during tests in monkey cells and human lung cells. The findings by David A. Ostrov, Ph.D., an immunologist and associate professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine and his colleagues, are published in the journal Pathogens. “We...

For the first time, the UAC showed the S-70 Okhotnik drone equipped with a flat jet nozzle. The UAV was created by the Sukhoi company. The rollout of the new model took place at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant. V.P. Chkalov. At the Valery Chkalov Novosibirsk Aircraft Building Plant, the first prototype of the newest heavy attack unmanned aerial vehicle Sukhoi S-70 “Okhotnik” with a jet flat nozzle to further reduce thermal and radar signature was rolled out.

The Left’s credo: Never, ever, ever let a good crisis go to waste.FEMA chief says powerful storms ‘new normal’ in era of climate change.As usual of course the existing facts don’t support her stupid claim.Mind you, the US didn’t even have a nationwide Doppler Radar system during the 1954-74 tornado cycle. It wasn’t installed until the mid-90s and has been significantly updated ever since so we are now reporting previously undetectable tornadic events. So who knows how many tornadoes there actually were between 1954-74. It wouldn’t have been less but it could have been more – much more, maybe double...

OLD TOWN, Maryland -- This ancient colonial town nestled along the north branch of the Potomac River could not be more different from the upscale suburbs of Chevy Chase located much closer to the tidal portion. While both are in the same state, this town of 86 people is more culturally connected to the people and places in West Virginia and Pennsylvania close to this region than the D.C. suburb located in the center of wealth and power in this country. Yet they do share one recently developing commonality that has gone under the radar of the national press that...

Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in large measure, a war between the religious and the anti-religious. The Left has contempt for evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics and Orthodox Jews for good reason: They represent everything the Left loathes; and while there are, of course, secular conservatives who fight the Left, the largest and most effective opposition comes from conservative Christians and Jews. The differences begin in childhood. Most religious kids -- especially those who attend traditional Christian and Jewish schools -- are raised with different values than most secular kids....

Central Pennsylvania school districts wasted no time determining whether to require students to wear masks or not following the state Supreme Court ruling Friday that voided the Wolf administration’s mask mandate. A number of area districts including Central Dauphin, Cumberland Valley, Steelton-Highspire, Susquehanna Township School District and West Shore announced they would maintain masking policies. While others, including East Pennsboro Area School District, Upper Dauphin Area School District, West Perry School District and Northern York County School District are making masks optional. The high court overturned a controversial order issued in August by Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam to keep...

The United States of America is not America. One is a political construct of the constitution; the other is the land and property owned by people who call themselves Americans. One is sick, corrupt, illegal and immoral. The other is the land and homes that need to be defended from the other. The United States of America is rabid, irrationally attacking those trying to heal it from the poison in its system. After watching a little bit of Meet the Press, a clip, I was struck by the way every talking head was aghast at the idea of Republicans, and...

2021 has become the second-highest year for firearm sales after the record set in 2020 In November of 2021, there were about 1.51 million firearm sales conducted through the National Instant background Check System (NICS) and 2.69 million NICS checks. November of 2021 was the third-highest November for gun sales and total NICS background checks since NICS was started in 1998.There were about .758 million checks for handguns, .629 million checks for long guns, almost 55 thousand checks for “other” which might be handguns, long guns, or simple firearms, and often applies to receivers which have not yet been assembled...

I know, I know…and I don’t need to hear about it from you, but I did watch the first two episodes of “And Just Like That…” on HBO Max out of morbid curiosity. And yuck. Leftist political correctness always had the goal of ruining anything good in life, anything fun, but now fear of upsetting the left-wing mob has even members of that mob ruining themselves preemptively in the hope of avoiding offending a group of people whose very existence is a quest to be offended by everything. It’s both sad and hilarious at the same time. For those of...

When the AP and other media outlets talk about the causes of inflation, somehow, they miss the elephant in the room. When the AP and other media outlets talk about the causes of inflation, somehow, they miss the elephant in the room: energy policies. Since day 1 of his presidency, Biden has set out to destroy oil companies and reduce production. This policy alone has contributed significantly to the price spike in energy prices -- and those high prices flow through the entire economy as they affect all prices. The high energy prices especially harm the poor, middle class, and...

Selectively reporting or downright ignoring crime based upon race is a dangerous gambit in the hands of a partisan media with a political ax to grind. The Associated Press Stylebook cautions journalists against identifying race in crime reporting once a suspect is found or apprehended; however, there is an escape clause that suggests that race can be injected into a story if a reporter believes it plays a part in a particular demonstration or criminal act. That opens the door to gaslighting and editorializing upon the factual circumstances of an event for political purposes. On January 6th, no sooner had...

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Huge compilation of Demonstrations, Protests and Freedomrallies around the world. All videos in this compilation are made between Dec 3-5, 2021. Just video and music. No spoken words. About 5 minutes long.

Gavin Newsom is leading the way. The Supreme Court has just heard oral arguments in the case of Dobbs v Jackson. The justices have not reached a decision yet, but the decision could overturn Roe v Wade. If the left dodges a bullet, and the Supremes uphold Roe, Governor Gavin Newsom would like them to think about it again. You see, Texas did something creative, which Newsom thinks he can copy. Texas came up with a novel way to reduce abortions. Its new fetal heartbeat law makes abortions after a heartbeat is detectable illegal. But it leaves enforcement up to...

As a candidate, Joe Biden said he had a plan to “shut down the virus, not the country.” It was a promise that sounded more like a scene from the make-believe “West Wing” TV series than a practical policy prescription. Biden offered no details about how he planned to accomplish this feat, and a year later we know why. He had no plan. Just look at the numbers. Tragically, more Americans have died from COVID-19 on Biden’s watch than in all of 2020—and the year isn’t even over. While the death toll rises, workers and businesses are struggling because of...

OK, we learned something new today. We’ve written a lot about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) but we’d never heard of DEIBJ, which stands for “diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice” (how soon until we see DEIBJ+). The Skimm interviewed UC Berkeley’s new Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion, Dania Matos, who describes the emotional toll of her $325,000 a year gig. At the time of her interview, she’d only been at UC Berkeley for about a month, so her typical day consisted of “holding informal and formal listening sessions focused on truth-telling, trust, and transformation.” The Skimm asked her...

In an interview with CBS TV’s Rita Braver, resident Biden disgraced himself with a big lie about his past record of supporting the use of military force in Afghanistan, compounding it with an evasion of responsibility for the 13 military causalities suffered during his botched withdrawal operation. Via Fox News Biden's claim to have opposed the war "from the very beginning" echoed remarks he made in a 2019 interview with the editorial board of New Hampshire's Seacoast Media Group. "I'm the guy that – as has been pointed out repeatedly – that thought we should not be going into Afghanistan,"...

It was pretty cute: all of George Soros’ prosecutors had a get-together to celebrate their abolition of bail. But the media asked a few embarrassing questions. In a year when killings are up, especially in Democrat-run cities. What are these prosecutors thinking, celebrating no-bail in the middle of a crime wave? A drugged-out petty criminal dies of a drug overdose while resisting arrest and under police restraint, and every nice liberal lady puts up a Black Lives Matter yard sign. A teenager shoots a couple of rioters in self-defense, and President Biden calls him a white supremacist. What the heck?...