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Britain's omicron wave may be no worse than a flu pandemic, an expert has said, as the first major study into the new variant suggests it is less severe than delta. The first real-world study looking at 78,000 omicron cases in South Africa found the risk of hospitalisation is 29 per cent lower compared with the Wuhan strain, and 23 per cent lower than delta, with vaccines holding up well. Far fewer people have also needed intensive care from omicron, with just five per cent of cases admitted to ICU compared to 22 per cent of delta patients, the study...

But consider further that, as the Census documents, the biggest single driver of the increased nonwhite population is the growth of the Hispanic population. They are by far the largest group within the Census-designated nonwhite population (19 percent vs. 12 percent for blacks). While their representation among voters considerably lags their representation in the overall population, it is fair to say that voting trends among this group will decisively shape voting trends among nonwhites in the future since their share of voters will continue to increase while black voter share is expected to remain roughly constant. An important thing to...

VIDEO"Get ready, pal, you're going in for a problem!" A very very angry Joe Biden has already declared victory in 2022. Something must have really rattled his cage as he was speaking at a DNC event on the night of December 14, 2021. Perhaps he has been watching Bannon's War Room.

‘I’ll cut your throat’: French Muslims harass Catholic procession honoring MaryA dozen Muslims encircled the peaceful Catholic marchers, shouting: 'bunch of whores,' 'you’re not in a cathedral here,' 'kuffaar' (infidels), 'miscreants,' 'get out of here, this place doesn’t belong to you.'(LifeSiteNews) — A candlelit procession in honor of the Immaculate Conception was harassed by a group of about a dozen young Muslim men on December 8 in the suburban town of Nanterre, west of Paris. The faithful were the target of insults and death threats, ranging from “sons of bitches” to “Wallah, on the Coran I swear I’ll cut your...

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a family noticed something strange poking its head out from behind an ornament — the most poisonous snake in South Africa. A quick internet search revealed that the reptile was the nation’s most venomous snake, the deadly boomslang. Wild immediately sent snake-catcher Gerrie Heyns a photo of the tree interloper, circling the snake’s head. But the situation was so ridiculous, Heyns dismissed it as a joke. “I drove over to theirs, telling them not to take their eyes off it in case it slithered away from the Christmas tree and found itself a hiding place in their home.” “I would...

Despite Age, Surgery, the Pope is Still Energetic, His Nephew SaysROME (CNS) — Pope Francis will turn 85 years old Dec. 17. And according to his nephew, Jesuit Father José Luis Narvaja, he is still rarin’ to go.“I see him doing very well, with so much strength; really, he doesn’t seem to be 85,” the Argentine priest told the Italian Catholic magazine, Famiglia Cristiana, for its Dec.12 issue.Father Narvaja, who is the son of the pope’s youngest sister, the late Marta Regina Bergoglio, said he visited his uncle, the pope, right after his colon surgery in July. Even then, “he...

here has been a dramatic underestimation of the evolutionary capacity of SARS-CoV-2 when it is put under widespread immune pressure. In our estimation, there can be no doubt that the Omicron variant is only one such example of this and that other variants harboring a similar panoply of S (spike)-directed mutations will soon emerge in other countries. There is, indeed, no reason to accept or believe that identical conditions of suboptimal population-level immune pressure (due to the vaccine) on SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness combined with widespread infectious pressure (due to vaccination during a viral epidemic/pandemic) would result in a different outcome. Countries...

A list deaths published in the Air Line Pilot Association magazine shows that most of the deaths in 2021 happened after the vaccines rolled out. Are dead pilots trying to tell us something? Yesterday, I received the following text message referring to an article in the Air Line Pilot Association (ALPA) magazine: OK, so at first glance, that looks pretty incriminating, doesn’t it? Especially the huge number of deaths in July (39) as compared to a pre-jab month like January (1) or March (1). However, they only list the “new” deaths they heard about in each issue. So let’s not...

[Catholic Caucus] Traditional Catholics Sound Alarm As Rome Suppresses Most Old Rite SacramentsThey contend the Oct. 7 pastoral instruction forbidding six of the seven sacraments celebrated according to the extraordinary form is a violation of canon law and will cause spiritual harm.ROME — Canon lawyers and experts in the traditional liturgy have warned that a pastoral instruction issued by the Diocese of Rome that bans traditional communities and priests from celebrating all the sacraments with the exception of the Eucharist according to the traditional form of the Roman Rite is unlawful and will harm souls if allowed to continue.The guidelines,...

A Georgia man who drove cross-country with an assault rifle and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 28 months behind bars in an emotional hearing on Tuesday. Cleveland Meredith Jr. pleaded guilty in September to sending threatening communications. Though he missed the January 6 rally because of car troubles, Meredith was one of the first people charged in relation to the Capitol riot after his mother reported concerning texts to the FBI on January 7. Agents found Meredith in a hotel one mile from the Capitol with thousands of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and an...

A reader sent a link to a TikTok video with information that Glen Beck believes everyone should know. In 2015 (during the Obama/Biden administration and before Trump became President), there was a signed confidential agreement between Moderna and the U.S. government’s NIH (National Institutes of Health). The video clearly states that the agreement says, “mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine candidates developed and jointly-owned by the NIAID and Moderna.” Beck asks, “Did you know that the government co-owns the vaccine?… The same government that is now mandating its use owns the vaccine.” (Writer’s comment: The fact that the U.S. government may co-own the...

COVID-19 and the Global Predators is much more than an analysis of the current exploitation of humanity under cover of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It discloses for the first time the actual blueprint and master plan that that was ten years in the making by global predators before the pandemic: a plan to reorganize the world in the name of public health. Billionaires, government agencies, giant funds, and major industries collaborated years ahead of time to lay the groundwork for what would become Operation Warp Speed and the Great Reset in 2020. All this is disclosed, individuals and groups are named,...

What is going on at Newsmax? That's the question a lot of viewers and media watchers are asking amid a shakeup that's come with the news that White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson's contract isn't being renewed for 2022. There's been buzz that Robinson and Newsmax are splitting ways due to Robinson's tweets that got her banned from the social network, but according to an exclusive report from our sister site, RedState, there's a lot more going on at Newsmax. ... As Jen Van Laar writes, "network insiders" told RedState that Robinson's tweets were not "at all" the reason for the...

HELSINKI/WASHINGTON — Finland has chosen U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters to replace aging F/A-18 combat jets and plans to order 64 planes with weapons systems in a $9.4 billion deal, the government said on Friday. Lockheed Martin competed in a tender for the deal with Sweden’s Saab, U.S. rival Boeing, France’s Dassault and Britain’s BAE Systems. The procurement from Lockheed, including weapons as well as service and maintenance until 2030, is estimated to cost 8.378 billion euros ($9.44 billion), the government said. The construction of hangars and other equipment will add a further 777 million euros, and 824...

Data from Denmark shows that just over 70 per cent of omicron cases have been among those younger than 40 The omicron epidemic is being driven by young, vaccinated people, according to mounting data from countries as diverse as the UK, Denmark and South Africa....

In Colorado, there is a backlash from people who can't get into hospitals because they are full of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. Administrators say facilities "are on the verge of collapse."

response to the critical status of 14 salmon species listed under the Endangered Species Act, Gov. Inslee has outlined his administration’s vision for the future of Washington’s salmon recovery efforts. The policies are intended to address a number of key issues responsible for their decline, including: Restoration of habitat is addressed in the proposal. Titled the Lorraine Loomis Act — after a prominent salmon advocate and Swinomish tribal elder — the legislation standardized the minimum height requirement for trees within riparian zones, the green corridors along rivers and streams. Tree canopy insulates rivers from dramatic fluctuations in temperature which cause...

"This virus isn't going away"As COVID-19 has evolved, it's gone from an epidemic, to the current pandemic and, eventually, will become an endemic, health experts say. But what does that mean? Will it change our way of life? When will it happen? Here's what to know about COVID's next — and lasting — phase. What Is an Endemic? Contrary to the leading part of the term, an endemic does not mean COVID will end. Health experts say an endemic virus remains in the population, but at a relatively low level. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines an endemic...