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If there's one skill Pfizer, Moderna and their vaccine-producing big pharma rivals have mastered over the last two years since SARS-CoV-2 first stormed out of Wuhan and infected the world, it's moving the goalposts - and not just with their rhetoric, with their research as well.First it was two shots. Then it was two shots and a booster dose. Now, as COVID cases and hospitalizations surge in what's shaping up to be another seasonal wave, Moderna has published new research purporting to show that a third full dose of its vaccine specifically increases antibody levels that are useful against the...

Typhoon Rai packed sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour with gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph) before blowing out into the South China Sea on Friday. At least 375 people were killed, 56 were missing and 500 were injured, according to the national police. The toll may still increase because several towns and villages remained out of reach due to downed communications and power outages, although massive cleanup and repair efforts were underway. Many were killed by falling trees and collapsing walls, flash floods and landslides. A 57-year-old man was found dead hanging from a...

President Joe Biden settled back into hiding at the White House on Monday as he cleared his schedule of any public events. Biden returned to the White House from another weekend at his home in Delaware, but he did not engage with reporters shouting questions about the death of his Build Back Better bill or Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) declaration that he would not vote for it.

You can see it in their eyes, you can hear it in their voices, you can read it in their words, intrusively controlling your life for the five billionth time. Anti-liberty leftists are afraid of Omicron, it haunts them at night while it provides copious excuses for their power by day. This kind of extreme panic was a ‘collective’ experience in the early days of the COVID crisis. With everyone running out en masse to buy toilet paper and hand sanitizer before cowering in their homes.It is different this time around. There’s a giant divide between the believers in the...

Iyad Shalabi was the first Arab-Israeli to raise the flag of the Jewish state and win a gold medal at the Paralympic Games. There are Israelis who are impressive, and then there are Israelis who blow you away. Arab-Israeli Iyad Shalabi is deaf and paralyzed, yet he managed to overcome the obstacles and win a gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Learn more about his incredible story and how his Jewish coach reacted to his amazing victory.

Here is what I want to say to you: at the end of this process, no matter how you change it, no matter how many statements the schools put out about diversity, no matter how many thumbs you put on all the scales to select for a certain kind of student, at the end of this process are self-serving institutions of limitless greed and an army of apparatchiks who are employed only to protect their interests. That’s it. You can’t make college admissions fair by getting rid of the SAT because colleges admissions can’t be “fair.” College admissions exist to...

VIDEO: Preliminary information on a halt in the operation of the nuclear reactor in Bushehr First information on a halt in the operation of the nuclear reactor in Bushehr. Just yesterday, when this video of explosions in the area was put on social media, Iran claimed that the blasts there were part of "military training".

An analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) from November 2021 shows the total immigrant population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 46.2 million, the highest number ever recorded in American history. Immigrants are also referred to by the government as the “foreign-born”. There were a total of 46.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) in the country in November 2021. This is the largest number of immigrants ever recorded in any government survey or census going back to 1850. As a share of the total U.S. population, immigrants were 14.2 percent in November 2021 — the...

The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s unprecedented spending is a serious violation of the spirit of free and fair elections.Last week, the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life finally filed its 2020 federal tax return and the list of grant recipients is shocking.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated approximately $350 million to the formerly unknown liberal organization CTCL. The group then gave “grants” to local election offices, along with explicit instructions regarding how election procedures were to be changed. This greatly benefitted Democrat candidates.Although hundreds of jurisdictions received tiny gifts of a few thousand dollars, which probably made no...

The president’s climate envoy has been pressuring banks and financial institutions to reduce their commitments to U.S. oil and gas companies and join the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, which would hobble the ability of oil and gas companies to increase production. Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase signed on to the alliance this year. Mr. Kerry’s efforts didn’t go unnoticed. In April, members of the Senate Banking Committee sent him a letter expressing concern that he had “been pressuring banks to make extralegal commitments regarding energy-related lending and investment activities” that would result in...

Send a Christmas Card to The Political Prisoners in DCMany of these men thought they would be home by the holidays. Sadly that is not the case.Christmas cards addressed to all prisoners can be sent to Jonathan Mellis, Shane Jenkins, or Nathan DeGrave and will be shared by them with the rest of the prisoners.Prisoner 1:NATHAN DEGRAVE – 376789 DOC-DC-CTF 1901 D ST. SE WASHINGTON, DC 20003Or Prisoner 2:JONATHAN MELLIS – 376907 DOC-DC-CTF 1901 D ST. SE WASHINGTON, DC 20003Or Prisoner 3:SHANE JENKINS – 377186 DOC-DC-CTF 1901 D ST. SE WASHINGTON, DC 20003

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, one of the first doctors in South Africa to treat patients with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, told CNN on Monday they have seen a decrease in COVID cases in the region where the Omicron variant was first detected. Coetzee further explained while they did see a rise in COVID-19 cases with the Omicron variant they did not see a corresponding rise in hospitalizations or deaths. "What we currently see is our cases, we are over the curve. It is sort of coming down...The epicenter, the number is much lower...In total, if you look at our numbers,...

Who wants to sing “New York, New York” or “I Love L. A.” anymore? And can you imagine leaving your heart in San Francisco? What has happened is a true American tragedy—and it’s not just because of COVID, although that helped. The cancer has been growing for a long time. It could be said you should stay to help resuscitate these cities although I would argue you do more for them by leaving, making those governing the cities—universally Democrats, as everybody knows—and even more those dopey enough to have voted for that governance, wake up. And yet… and yet… and...

Four in ten people infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms — but are still potential spreaders of the disease, according to a new study. The findings, published last week in JAMA Network Open, found that 40.5 percent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 globally were asymptomatic. However, researchers said this highlights the “potential transmission” of the virus unknowingly, particularly in certain settings. “Screening for asymptomatic infection is required, especially for countries and region that have successfully controlled SARS-CoV-2,” researchers from Peking University said. “Asymptomatic infections should be under management similar to that for confirmed infections, including isolating and contact tracing.”

While many Christians are taught that premarital sex and cohabitation aren't advisable for many reasons, a growing number of single believers are following secular society's model instead of the biblical model. In the most recent episode of "Challenging Conversations" on the edifi podcast network, host Jason Jimenez, who's also a pastor and founder of Stand Strong Ministries, was joined by apologist Sean McDowell to discuss why some 60% of professing Christians believe cohabitation and sex outside of marriage are OK. Jimenez said that he and McDowell, who hosts classes on premarital sex and marriage at Summit Ministries, wanted to speak...

As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he’s facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low. Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing as president, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Support among independents alone dropped eight points in a week. Overall, more than half – 55 percent – of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance, including 44 percent who strongly disapprove. His disapproval ratings have jumped 20 points since he took office, reaching a record high this month. The...

Burlington, Vt. is a city of 44,000 on the shores of beautiful Lake Champlain. Like most large and medium-sized cities, Burlington was the target of activists looking to defund the police because of racism and white privilege.The city is about 6% black, and racial incidents involving the police have been few and far between. But Burlington is a very woke college town and the city council decided that defunding the police was the only option to achieve “justice.”Three days after a proposal was introduced to cut the police budget in Burlington by 30%, it passed the city council by a...

The lies, chaos, and confusion about COVID continue to come from the Biden-Harris administration. It’s full-steam ahead, man the oars, get ready to cover for every lie, flip flop and every bit of disinformation found out by the public. Here is another recent example of so many countless others. And they wonder why no one trusts this administration. Viruses always mutate. The Los Angeles Times published an interview with VP Kamala Harris on Friday during which she said that the Biden administration saw neither the delta nor the omicron COVID-19 variants coming in advance. “We didn’t see Delta coming. I...

Japan stands a beacon to Americans and most of the industrialized world for its COVID vaccine policies, which are far more humane and realistic than those foisted on us by Fauci & Co.In The Epoch Times, Aaron Kheriaty writes:Japan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to Covid vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other risks. They also reaffirmed their commitment to adverse event reporting to document potential side-effects.Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be...

KYOTO, Japan — You may soon be able to check if you’ve been exposed to coronavirus from your own home — thanks in part to ostriches. Japanese scientists have developed a new face mask made with ostrich extract that can detect COVID-19 with the help of a fluorescent light and a smartphone. The non-woven mask has an ostrich antibody-bearing mouth filter. It was developed by a research group led by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, a doctor of veterinary medicine and president of Kyoto Prefectural University. “The ostrich antibody for corona placed on the mouth filter of the mask captures the coronavirus in...