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They were born in Gers in 1949 and had shot to fame in the 1980s on French television, helped by their boyish good looks, Le Figaro reported. Their star turn on the 1979 sci-fi programme Temps X was hugely popular, and ran for eight years. In the show they donned cosmonaut outfits and imparted scientific facts.

Luxury dog treats have boomed during the pandemic but experts are reminding owners what our pets really need – love, attention and walks. Dogs with well-heeled owners can now wolf down a menu worthy of a Michelin-starred restaurant with dishes including grass-fed buffalo tails and canine caviar. But experts at The Kennel Club have reminded owners that dogs can prosper without the opulent treats that fly off the shelves for more than ten times the price of human equivalents. Thrive ProReward 100 per cent Liver dog treats sell for £7.60 per 100g (£76 per kilo), compared with a human alternative...

Talk radio legend Howard Stern slammed Oprah Winfrey for having people at her "palatial estate" for dinner parties amid a record surge in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the omicron variant. "I’m really amazed by Oprah, I really am. On her Instagram she likes to take you into her house where every night of Christmas is a big party like a celebration and she flies in a different chef," Stern said on his SiriusXM show. "It’s getting very confusing to me. I see what’s going on with COVID. Everyone’s got it. Everyone’s sick. People have a 104 fever. I...

Leaked details of UK government’s early pandemic response back up Dr. Malone’s assertions. Dr. Robert Malone’s assertions about “mass formation psychosis” in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are underscored by the fact that authorities in the UK admitted to using “totalitarian” methods of “mind control” to instill fear in the population. In Canada, the military also admitted launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people in order to manipulate them into compliance with COVID-19 restrictions and mandates. During his viral podcast with Joe Rogan after he was banned by Twitter, Malone explained how the global population was being...

The life insurance industry is likely to post a 200-300% increase in claims this year, hurting the profitability of most insurers.A third Covid-19 wave could potentially lead to a spike in life insurance claims, directly affecting insurer's solvency margins and profits.People now have a much better understanding of the need for financial protection against life’s uncertainties. Thus, despite two Covid-19 waves, premium growth for life insurers remains on a strong trajectory. Number of policies for all insurers has also grown by a robust 10% in FY22 till date. Private life insurers reported robust growth of 34% and 28% YoY in...

KEY POINTS Jurors in Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal trial told federal Judge Edward Davila on Monday that they can’t reach a unanimous verdict on three counts. Davila gave them a so-called Allen charge, telling them to try harder. The jury has been deliberating for about 46 hours over the course of seven days. =================================================================== SAN JOSE, Calif. — The 12 jurors tasked with deciding the fate of Elizabeth Holmes told federal Judge Edward Davila on Monday morning that they’re unable to come to a unanimous verdict on three of the charges facing the Theranos founder. Davila responded by calling the jurors...

Another Covid variant has been found in France, according to scientists. The mutant strain has 46 mutations that are thought to make it both more vaccine-resistant and infectious than the original virus. Some 12 cases have been spotted so far near Marseille, with the first linked to travel to the African country Cameroon. But there is little sign that it is outcompeting the dominant Omicron variant, which now makes up more than 60 per cent of cases in France. The strain was discovered by academics based at the IHU Mediterranee Infection on December 10, but has not spread rapidly since....

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 1 in 13,000 people will experience myocarditis after taking any of the Covid-19 injections, and they claim this is a “rare” adverse event.But by claiming this, the CDC is choosing to ignore the sheer magnitude of heart damage that is occurring once the vaccine damage is extrapolated across the adolescent and young adult population. Emergency room visits for myocarditis sky rocketed in 2021, as tens of thousands of young people were damaged by the experimental Covid-19 mRNA injections.Myocarditis is a condition that causes inflammation of the heart muscle and reduces the heart’s...

A team of nine black climbers is attempting to scale Mount Everest to tackle the mountain's 'intentional lack of access for black people' and mountaineering's 'colonial history'. The Full Circle Everest Expedition, which climbing leader Fred Campbell described as 'the first all black and brown expedition to the highest place on earth' in an Instagram video, is hoping to change the future of mountaineering. The first two men to ever complete the climb to Mount Everest's summit were Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, and Sir Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, in 1953. In fact, many people from the Sherpa community...

Responding to a request under the Freedom of Information Act mid-last year, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) – the organisation responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK – demonstrated little interest in the use of ethylene oxide to sterilise test swabs being used en masse and repeatedly by the UK population.There are three common methods of sterilising medical devices such as test swabs: two methods of radiation (“R”) and ethylene oxide (“EO”). In May 2021, in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act (“FoI”), the MHRA...

A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'. Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant. This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months. 'I think we will have that in the next two...

The Bellwether Volar: a flying hypercar for private ownersBellwether Industries VIEW 13 IMAGES The UK's Bellwether Industries has built and flown a half-scale prototype of its stunning Volar eVTOL, and is preparing to release footage. It's the most brazenly futuristic design we've ever seen, a flying hypercar for a utopia even sci-fi doesn't dare dream up. I mean, look at the thing. It looks like it's doing 200 miles an hour sitting still. The lines are graceful, even sensual. The profile razor-sharp. The slanted louvers give it a rib cage and warn of frightening velocities. The stubby vee of the...

This is huge. Something is killing healthy people at an unprecedented rate. It isn't COVID. Could it be the "safe and effective" COVID vaccine? I think so. Here's why.Steve Kirsch5 hr ago 382483 article imageStart by reading this story, “Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64.” Read the whole thing now.Note: In the event this story “disappears” from view, I kept a backup. You can’t be too careful nowadays.This is big. Really big. And I’m not the only one that thinks so.Key points:Deaths among 18-64 year-olds (who don’t normally die) are up by 40%...

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former communications director tore into President Joe Biden over the weekend, calling the 79-year-old commander-in-chief 'old as s***' and predicting he'll get Democrats 'demolished' in this year's November midterms. Corbin Trent, who worked in the Democrat firebrand's Congressional office and then her re-election campaign before abruptly departing in March 2020, told Politico that Biden is 'deeply unpopular' and vulnerable to a left-wing primary challenge. 'People will smell opportunity, and D.C. is filled with people who want to be president,' he said. 'He’s deeply unpopular. He’s old as shit. He’s largely been ineffective, unless we’re counting judges...

How about some good news to start Twenty-Tutu off right? Red China's big telecom is melting down thanks to our old friend Donald John Trump. Reuters reported, "Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, battered by U.S. sanctions, expects 2021 revenue to have declined nearly 30% and predicted continued challenges in the New Year. "Revenue for the year is expected to be 634 billion yuan ($99.48 billion), rotating chairman Guo Ping said in a New Year letter to employees on Friday. "That represents a fall of 28.9% from 2020 revenues of 891.4 billion yuan." Just a few years ago,...

During a press conference at Broward Health Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, DeSantis noted what workers at the Jackson Health System in Miami are doing, which is noting which patients with COVID-19 are there because of the pandemic and which ones are there for other reasons but happen to test positive while they are there. "I think that’s an important distinction to make when you have a variant like omicron which is much more widespread," DeSantis said. "You are going to have people who get into a car accident and go into the emergency room. They’re swabbing everybody, and you’re...

This is the moment a so-called Karen trespassed into a family's home in Chicago to complain about the noise of their Christmas party - only to be quickly thrown out by furious family members. The video, posted on TikTok by user Katy Ileana, shows a family delighting in Christmas celebrations as they open presents in their kitchen on the evening of December 24, as is traditional for many Hispanic Americans. Suddenly, a grey haired, bespectacled woman enters through the kitchen door with her arms in the air and says: 'Can I ask you guys to shut it down? 'It's...

The audit results of the largest 4 counties in Texas found that thousands of non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote. Statewide, a total of 11,737 potential non-U.S. citizens were identified. Of these, 327 were in Collin County, 1,385 in Dallas County, 3,063 in Harris County, and 708 in Tarrant County. So far, Dallas County has canceled 1,193 of these records, with Tarrant County canceling one. Neither Collin nor Harris have canceled any potential non-voting records. Since November 2020, 224,585 deceased voters have been removed from the voter rolls in Texas. Collin County removed 4,889 deceased voters, Dallas County removed 14,926...

Now, imagine, if you will, a devastating pandemic of a variant so virulent that victims don’t even know they have it unless they obtain a positive test. This twilit nightmare is reality for the COVID-panicked, a new kind of Karen who has turned her controlling tendencies inward and will do everything in her power to make sure she herself never, ever spreads the dread disease. And therefore, it is crucially important that she gets tested … no matter what. This mindset is not necessarily the fault of the COVID-panicked individual. The “experts” they’ve been told to trust, from the White...

It was inevitable that the implosion of the Biden administration would lure former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton back onto the political stage. The voters showed her the door five years ago, yet she remains unable to grasp what they were trying to tell her. The latest manifestation of this learning disability began last month with an online lecture series in which Clinton holds forth on “The Power of Resilience.” The series culminates with a cringeworthy reading, complete with feigned attempt to hold back tears, of the speech she purportedly prepared in anticipation of victory in 2016. (snip) If this undelivered...