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The first person in Britain to die after catching Omicron was an anti-vaxxer pensioner who refused the life-saving jab after becoming convinced it was part of a Government conspiracy to control the population having been brainwashed online, his stepson claimed today. The unnamed victim, who was in his early seventies, was described as a retired 'recluse' who was 'fit and healthy' but shunned a covid jab, falling ill in early December and dying in hospital in Northampton on Monday.

That stark warning followed the release of a “draft treaty” proposal from Moscow that Russian officials portray as a resolution to the standoff, which has intensified as Russian forces amass near Ukraine's borders. Yet the Russian document demands not only that NATO promise never to admit Ukraine to the alliance, but it also goes so far as to demand the removal of U.S. and Western European forces from Central and Eastern Europe — a rollback that would amount to a practical breakup of NATO. “It’s not even valid to consider it,” a Baltic official told the Washington Examiner on condition...

I followed up this morning on my post looking at the current New York Times story on the investigation of Project Veritas with PV attorney Paul Calli. I asked Mr. Calli for the questions submitted by the New York Times to PV and the response given to the Times, both of which were omitted from the story. Mr. Calli has provided the following as O’Keefe’s unquoted response to the questions submitted by the Times (the Times reporter addressed is Michael Schmidt). Mike, Mr. O’Keefe responds to your email on your deadline, as follows. Please include Mr. O’Keefe’s response in its...

Male SELF EXAMINATION FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. ...It takes less than 15 seconds.. If you're male and around or over 60 yrs of age, you SHOULD take this Alzheimer's Test How fast can you guess these words and fill-in the blanks? 1. _ _NDOM 2. F_ _K 3. P_N_S 4. PU_S_ 5. S_X 6. BOO_S Answers: 1. RANDOM 2. FORK 3. PANTS 4. PULSE 5. SIX 6. BOOKS You got all 6 wrong...didn't you? The good news is: You do NOT have Alzheimer's. You're a pervert.

Two popular over-the-counter compounds (diphenhydramine and lactoferrin) reduce COVID-19 replication by 99%. This was shown by laboratory studies of scientists from Florida

The new Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the UK. So what are the symptoms people should act on? So far, the top five symptoms are: * runny nose * headache * fatigue (either mild or severe) * sneezing * sore throat If you think you may have Covid, it is important to get tested. The NHS says people should still look out for classic Covid symptoms: * a new, continuous cough * a fever/high temperature * loss of or change to smell or taste

In the fantasy of wealthy woke environmentalists, the world has recognized that it is on the brink of an existential climate crisis that can only be avoided by rapid elimination of the use of fossil fuels, and the transformation of the world energy economy to be based upon “renewables” like the wind and sun. The generation of electricity will be “decarbonized” by some time in the 2030s, and the world will reach “net zero” carbon emissions by around 2050. In the real world, anyone with eyes can see that this is not happening. The countries with the large majority of...

I’m sick and tired of wearing masks. I’m sick and tired of vaccine mandates. I’m sick and tired of hearing the dire warnings and broken promises of politicians and incompetent public health officials. For almost two years they’ve ordered us around like children and told us what individual freedoms we must sacrifice if we are to ever win the war against COVID-19. Now a new variant, omicron, has knocked us backwards again. Though it doesn't appear as lethal as other variants, the media have rebooted their panic machines and America is masking up and locking down once more. Corporations are...

COVID-19 long-haulers experience an array of widespread and debilitating symptoms even after the virus clears from their system, and latent viruses may account for many symptoms. Because of the compromised state of long haulers' bodies, previously dormant viruses are reactivating and becoming chronic infections. Recent studies are highlighting the occurrence of these reactivations. Researchers are pushing for more testing and research on potential treatments.

Hello and goodbye from Des Moines, where everything on the New West Side is shiny and bright.Every office park, retail center and neighborhood is alit with a bright swath of LED lights.Which is beautiful but makes me nostalgic for what seemed a much simpler Christmas time of my youth. These watercolors of old Grand Rapids downtown encompass most of my Christmas shopping haunts of old - before the suburban malls displaced downtowns (only to shut down themselves several decades hence) and Macy’s bought the few surviving regional department stores. Bigger but definitely not better by most measures.Herpolshiemer’s, Wurzberg’s and Steketees’s...

There are some green shoots of optimism poking up through the cracked and wasted ground. As many of you are, I am weary and confused about why COVID continues to plague our everyday lives. When will the pandemic of the incompetent end? The virus has been used repeatedly for two years as a political weapon. The "pandemic" will not end until "we the people" demand that the virus and the handling of it be depoliticized. The credibility of the U.S. government, the U.S. scientific community, the CDC, and the FDA are at stake. The Chinese continue to work on bio-weapons,...

Bob Dylan’s song, “The Times They Are a-Changin’” was written when the country was undergoing significant political and social upheaval. Change can be both good and bad, but only the most naïve among us or someone who is intentionally undermining our laws could look at the changes in our criminal justice system over the last 19 months and say it’s been a change for the better. Our criminal justice system has sold out, not for a humble, good man who spent his life helping others but for a criminal who lived a life of crime. Not even Dylan could have...

The power brokers in today’s world aren’t shy about it but that doesn’t mean we must accept it. The rough beast whose hour has come round at last is the replacement of America’s constitutional republic with global governance. A critical mass of the country’s public servants, corporate heads and boards, academics, think tanks, religious leaders, and financial influencers, has intellectually accepted and promoted the loss of America as a sovereign nation. From one of America’s best-known families: Some even believe we [Rockefeller family] are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my...

So capitalism is the same as insider tradingg? A few days back, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that lawmakers should not be prevented from trading stocks. “We are a free market economy. They should be able to participate in that,” Pelosi said. Her remarks are probably owing to the fact that Pelosi’s husband holds stocks and options worth tens of millions of dollars. This includes stocks in big tech firms such as Amazon and Apple that are each worth between $5 million and $25 million. In Comcast, Pelosi’s husband holds stock worth between $1 million and $5 million and in...

More and more businesses in recent days have walked back previous rules mandating COVID-19 vaccine sas a condition for employment in a bid to keep workers. Earlier this week, Amtrak—a quasi-public corporation—became the latest to rescind its vaccine requirement amid concerns about staff shortages and cut service in January. In a memo sent to staff that was obtained by The Epoch Times, Amtrak CEO William Flynn said the company would do away with the mandate that would have given employees until Jan. 4 to get fully vaccinated or go on unpaid leave. About 500 out of more than 17,000 Amtrak...

The news reads like a farce but, apparently, they’re certain it will work—and they’ve got history on their side. It’s just that history really isn’t very good. Environmentalism, as much as anything, represents semi-educated man’s yearning to return to a less complicated past, one in which man was dependent upon nature’s vagaries, rather than master of them. Maybe that explains why European environmentalists have decided that the way to reduce carbon emissions from shipping is to use “giant kites”—or, as humans called them for thousands of years, “sails.” This is not a joke. It’s absolutely real and highlights just how...

So long as crime remained in San Francisco’s low-income, historically black Tenderloin neighborhood, it was acceptable to San Fran’s far-left ruling elites, but when it erupted in the high-end stores the elites frequent, “the reign of criminals” had “to end.” The reaction to the looting of Louis Vuitton on Union Square reveals San Fran’s liberal elites are “Fair Weather Marxists” and hypocrites. As we know from their contributions to liberal candidates’ campaign coffers and support for socialism, San Fran’s elites have an affinity for Marxist revolution, but apparently only for revolutionaries who rob, rape, maim, and kill each other in...

In a recent article in the New York Post, writer Michael Shellenberger found, with rising crime and violence in California, guns might be useful things in some situations. Situations other than hunting or target shooting. Situations involving the defense of self, family, and home. From the article: “I’ve always been anti-gun,” said Debbie Mizrahie of Beverly Hills. “But I am right now in the process of getting myself shooting lessons because I now understand that there may be a need for me to know how to defend myself and my family. We’re living in fear.”During Black Lives Matter protests last...

Imagine knowing that the very act of going to a religious service would likely result in violence and death. In Nigeria, churches have been sent warning letters instructing them to shut down or face "ferocious" attacks. That's some Christmas card! In a perhaps not unrelated event, just before Thanksgiving, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in Nigeria as part of his tour of Africa, the country was cruelly and infuriatingly de-listed from the roster of Countries of Particular Concern for Religious Freedom by the U.S. State Department. Christians in Nigeria rightfully feel abandoned by the...

Physicians who still practice medicine cannot afford to write or say the following for fear of being cancelled. As a retired physician, I cannot be coerced to keep silent with threats to my medical license or hospital privileges. COVID-19 is probably the greatest and most successful swindle in history. By comparison, Carlo Ponzi and Bernie Madoff were pikers. The COVID scam has affected most of earth’s 7.8 billion inhabitants, consumed trillions of dollars, and achieved a level of government control unprecedented in modern democracies. The COVID “pandemic of fear” is a con, perpetrated by those in power to extend and...