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It has been nearly two years since the first inklings of a respiratory infection in China that would turn the world upside-down. In a rational society, this would be the point where we realized that our attempts to vaccinate against this infection have failed. Yet we persist in our devotion to the sacred serum that will deliver us from our distress. Currently, 60% of adults in the United States are fully vaccinated. That's not nearly enough, say the pro-vaccinators. But exactly 0% of the population was vaccinated in 2020, and the number of deaths was lower. That is a profound...

Army Sgt. First Class Alwyn Cashe was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday, becoming the first black American service member to be awarded the honor since the Vietnam War

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark’s prime minister announced Friday that theaters, cinemas, concert halls, amusement parks, museums and art galleries across the country will be closed down under new restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the measures also require stores smaller than 2,000 square meters (21,528 square feet) and restaurants to limit their number of customers. Restaurants must serve their last meals and alcoholic beverages at 10 p.m. and close at 11 p.m.

Following Wednesday’s story in which The Ohio Star reported that Pfizer is currently still shipping it’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccine, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) won’t say which version of the vaccine it is distributing. ODH is responsible for acquiring and distributing at least some of the state’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines, though Alicia Shoults of the ODH’s Office of Public Affairs told The Star by phone Thursday afternoon that some healthcare providers procure the vaccine directly from the federal government. The Star asked Shoults which version of the Pfizer vaccine ODH was procuring – Comirnaty or...

- Direct electrical power generation with palladium and iron in a hydrogen atmosphere Jean-Paul Biberian Aix-Marseille University, France Following the pioneering work of Frank Gordon and Harper Whitehouse on Lattice Energy Conversion, I have duplicated some of their work. By electrodepositing palladium with PdBr2 on a Pd/Ag 2mm in diameter and 10cm long rod, a voltage of several hundred millivolts was generated between the Pd rod and the stainless-steel counter electrode in a hydrogen atmosphere. To increase the current, experiments were performed with palladium deposited on stainless-steel tubes 30mm in diameter and 20cm long, the counter electrode being also...

In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Yearby Peter Navarro, Ph.D.326 pages, hardcover $22.99, Kindle $2.99 ISBN-13: 978-1737478508 All Seasons Press, 2021Peter Navarro is uniquely qualified to provide an insider's account of the 2020 events that circumscribe the COVID crisis. He was senior adviser to President Trump during the campaign and through Trump's term in office on economic matters as assistant to the president and the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. Dr. Navarro graduated from Tufts, then got an MBA in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.Dr. Navarro has published more than...

Immune responses to pathogens involve many cells and proteins of the immune system. Early during an infection, these responses are non-specific, meaning that although they are directed at the pathogen, they are not specific to it. This is called innate immunity. Within a few days, adaptive immunity takes over; this immunity is specific to the invading pathogen. Adaptive immune responses include antibodies. A major goal of antibodies is to bind to the pathogen and prevent it from infecting, or entering, a cell. Antibodies that prevent entry into cells are called neutralizing antibodies. Many vaccines work by inducing neutralizing antibodies. However,...

The White House said on Friday that it could make double monthly child tax credit payments in February, if Democrats' spending plan to extend them doesn't pass Congress before year-end. "We've talked to Treasury and others about doing double payments in February. The president sees this as a priority as soon as Congress returns," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. The U.S. Treasury paid the last monthly child tax credit payment, $16 billion in total, on Wednesday.

The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes has canceled its four shows scheduled to run Friday. In a press release, MSG Entertainment, which operates Radio City Music Hall, said the shows were canceled due to breakthrough COVID-19 cases in the production. The company added that "plans for future shows are currently being assessed." Friday's shows had been scheduled for 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. MSG Entertainment said full refunds will be offered. The show had come under scrutiny in recent days by indicating it would not enforce a new city policy that children ages 5-11...

Eastport-South Manor Central School District (ESM) in Suffolk County, New York sent out an email to all parents informing them about the new physician in their district. The new hiring was part of the new regulations regarding Sudden Cardiac Arrest of students Grades K- 12.The Gateway Pundit obtained a copy of the email where the ESM stated that there’s a new regulation where all districts are now required to ensure that nurses and coaches can address the treatment and monitoring of students who exhibit signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest.

Think Legal Weed Cut Down On Crime? Think Again America Uncovered 470K subscribers 49,491 views Dec 16, 2021 If you thought legalizing weed would cut down on crime, think again. t did cut down on crime in a way—pot smokers were no longer being prosecuted for smoking, and some growers did come out of the shadows. But it also brought in the drug cartels who could hide their illegal growing operations amidst the tons of legal ones that sprang up. Watch this episode of America Uncovered for how the cartels are moving in where marijuana is legalized, the use of...

PROTECT WIVES, DAUGHTERS AND CHILDREN PROJECT: NDAA FY 2022 is now law without the provision requiring all females from age 18 to 26 to register for Selective Service. Thank the Lord. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-31) said that there was a massive grassroots surge against the provision. But there will be NDAA FY 2023, 2024, 2025, and on and on. The anti-family forces will not stop. We will not wait until late in 2022 to keep any "draft our daughters" provision out of NDAA FY 2023. The BAPTIST COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE (BCoC) is part of the grassroots that Rep. Roy spoke...

Well, Omicron cases are growing really fast. Like explosive, skyrocketing, vertical growth fast. If we continue this rate of spread, I would venture to say that there is no modern day virus that has spread this fast and this far ever before.

SAN FRANCISCO — The rapid growth of Omicron is prompting officials to warn that hospitals could easily become overwhelmed, potentially within weeks, as they deal with a combination of the newest variant of the coronavirus along with patients hit by a holiday wave of the Delta strain. California and the rest of the nation now face a formidable winter. According to the state’s COVID forecasting models, there are plausible scenarios in which a winter surge could hit hospitals worse than the summer Delta wave, which strained facilities across swaths of the state. The combination is “a perfect storm for overwhelming...

Leaky vaccines are worse than no vaccine at all. That is the unmistakable conclusion one would derive from a May 2018 article in Quanta magazine, a top scientific publication, about the unsuccessful attempts to create vaccines for HIV, malaria, and anthrax that aren’t leaky and don’t run the risk of making the pathogens more dangerous. Yet now that we are seeing such a microbiological Frankenstein play out in real life and people like Dr. Robert Malone have been citing this article to raise red flags about the leaky COVID shots, Quanta magazine took the unprecedented step of slapping an editor’s...

SHARK’S-EYE POINT OF VIEW New video tags allow researchers to hitch a ride with massive predators off Cape CHATHAM – If a picture is worth 1,000 words, shark researchers have found that a video can answer 1,000 questions. Atlantic White Shark Conservancy scientist Megan Winton was reviewing footage from the first year of video tagging when she came across a newly tagged great white shark that had just eaten a seal — telltale sign: seal intestines hanging from its gills — and was resting on the bottom of the ocean. Winton was initially disappointed they had missed the actual predation,...

The investigation into exactly what happened on the set of the film Rust that led to a cinematographer's death is heating up. On Thursday, a search warrant was issued for actor Alec Baldwin’s cellphone. According to an affidavit filed in Santa Fe Magistrate Court, authorities asked for the iPhone in order to examine conversations between Alec Baldwin and a violent crimes detective with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office. The new development comes just weeks after Alec Baldwin's widely viewed ABC interview in which he said he never pulled the trigger. Baldwin claims that he was holding the Colt .45...

It’s about time the governor added a major award to his list of victories.Greg Abbott May Be Texas Monthly’s ‘Bum Steer Of The Year,’ But Only Because He Keeps WinningIt’s about time the governor added a major award to his list of victories.By Rich Cromwell By Rich CromwellDecember 17, 2021As it’s the Christmas season, it’s only fitting that someone win a major award. This year, one such award went to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in the form of Texas Monthly’s “Bum Steer of the Year,” an “annual roundup of Texas’s most ridiculous and idiotic endeavors, featuring political personalities, flashy figures,...

It’s Week 15 in the NFL which means for at least a handful of teams, it’s time to prepare for the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas. The Lions, Jaguars, Texans and Jets are the four teams that have been eliminated from playoff contention thus far. As we countdown to the draft on April, 28, 2022, here is how things stand: *Denotes teams in playoff position

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, sponsored by Miranda Devine’s LAPTOP FROM HELL: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, for Friday shows that 41% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove. The latest figures include 20% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 47% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -27. (see trends)