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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered her COVID-19 briefing in Rochester “We're not in a good place, I'm going to be really honest with you… this is the winter surge we predicted,” she said. In Monroe County, there is currently less than 2% of available staffed ICU capacity and hospitalization numbers continue to rise. Starting Tuesday, Gov. Hochul will ask hospitals to report whether a patient is in the hospital for COVID-19 or if they tested positive for COVID-19 while being treated for another ailment. Someone is in a car accident they go to the emergency room they...

Richard Leakey, the world-renowned paleoanthropologist-turned-conservationist, has died at 77. The death of the native Kenyan was announced late Sunday by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. A cause of death was not given. Leakey, whose famous parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, made profound contributions to the understanding of human evolution through key fossil finds of early hominids, also made important discoveries of his own in the field. In 1981, he gained public notoriety as the presenter in a BBC television series called The Making of Mankind. By the late 1980s, however, he had shifted his focus, stepping in as head of the...

Economic reality took a bite out of President Biden over the holidays when a family friend griped in his Delaware home that ground chuck can now cost $5 per pound. But the president said Monday his beef was with corporate “middlemen” rather than decades-high inflation that has caused the price of food and consumer goods to spike. “I was sitting in my kitchen yesterday and here’s a sunroom off the kitchen and my wife was there with her sister and a good friend named Mary Ann,” Biden recounted during an event focused on ways to reduce meat prices. “And she...

Most conservative discussions about the problems of our day seem to center around how the Democrats are destroying everything with their far-left policies. Truth be told, many (if not most) Republicans are no better.The GOP is filled, it turns out, with corrupt, spineless Republican politicians who govern (if you can even call it that) based on an ethos of greed and corruption. Many of them are Big Pharma hacks who craft policies that benefit the drug industry at the expense of public health, and enrich the already rich at the expense of the poor.Neither party works for the We the...

The Rhode Island Department of Health stands by the decision to allow COVID positive health care workers to return to their jobs instead of rehiring unvaccinated workers who were terminated because of their inoculation status. Updated quarantine and isolation guidance from the Rhode Island Department of Health allows employees to continue working at hospitals and nursing homes without restrictions if the facility is so short-staffed it's a safety hazard for patients and residents. The updated guidance sparked some criticism after health care workers were placed on unpaid leave for not getting vaccinated, with critics questioning if lifting the mandate would...

Rabbi Hamnami Lalehzar tells PressTV that eliminated general "played key role ..."

Iowa diocese publishes deacon’s pro-LGBT story about gender-confused son ‘Lexi’ The deacon cited his formation in the diaconate as having provided him with some of the principles that led him to accept his son’s lifestyle. Mon Jan 3, 2022 - 1:27 pm ESTMon Jan 3, 2022 - 2:29 pm EST DAVENPORT, Iowa (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic diocesan newspaper has been promoting transgenderism in the Church. The Catholic Messenger, the newspaper for the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, displayed the sexual transformation of a St. Petersburg, Florida deacon’s son in the second of a series of articles seeking to illustrate “A Pastoral...

Most conservative discussions about the problems of our day seem to center around how the Democrats are destroying everything with their far-left policies. Truth be told, many (if not most) Republicans are no better. The GOP is filled, it turns out, with corrupt, spineless Republican politicians who govern (if you can even call it that) based on an ethos of greed and corruption. Many of them are Big Pharma hacks who craft policies that benefit the drug industry at the expense of public health, and enrich the already rich at the expense of the poor. Neither party works for the...

ew York Attorney General Letitia James has issued subpoenas for Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump as part of a probe into the Trump Organization’s business practices, Fox News reported. The subpoenas requested testimony from Ivanka and Donald Jr. as well as documents "in connection with an investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled by Donald J. Trump or the Trump Organization, or any matter which the Attorney General deems pertinent thereto," according to a court brief released to the public on Monday. .....

For generations, the arch on the right side of Spooner’s Cove in Montaña de Oro State Park has been a source of second glances from passersby and inspiration for landscape photographers, family photos and no doubt even a few seaside marriage proposals. It also was written into area history for centuries. But, as Kerry Keltz of El Moro wrote on NextDoor, “Nature giveth, nature taketh away!” On Christmas Eve, locals started reporting that the arch, which added an artistic flair to an already stunning landscape, had collapsed. “What?!,” wrote Sophie Fauchier of Ferrell on NextDoor, “I have been admiring that...

WARNING: @AnaheimPD says a deadly batch of tainted drugs may be going around. In just a little more than an hour today, they responded to 3 dif locations to find 4 people dead, possibly from #fentanyl laced drugs.

Now it’s personal…Several of my loved ones have suffered seriously from the so-called ‘vaccines’Mon Jan 3, 2022 - 4:19 am ESTMon Jan 3, 2022 - 6:01 am EST (LifeSiteNews) – We were thrilled five years ago when one of our son’s was admitted to one of our nation’s service academies. He took to the military discipline like a duck to water (his father had trained him well) and had a great first two years.Then COVID hit, and with it interminable lockdowns, masking and social distancing — all of which we know now did little or nothing to stop the spread...

A restaurant that unveiled plans to offer free meals to unvaccinated customers has drawn mixed responses from online commenters in South Korea. A restaurant specializing in abalone located in western Seoul uploaded a post through its official Instagram account saying that it would provide an additional abalone for free if unvaccinated customers place take-out orders, as a way to express its sympathy and help cheer them up. In the photo of the restaurant’s entrance that was posted together with the text, there was a sign saying, “The unvaccinated are not virus carriers.” The post included hashtags such as ‘opposition to...

(A) We were lied to, about the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines (better called substance injections). (B) Treatments for COVID, such as ventilators and Remdesivir―along with the vaccines themselves―together have killed hundreds of thousands of people in America alone. (C) The afflicted have often not been treated early enough to save lives. We should have focused on early treatments for those most at risk, rather than on unproven vaccines. An estimated 85% of deaths could have been saved by unpoliticized early treatment. Remember, COVID is not a serious disease or life-threatening for the vast majority of people. (D) Government...

Students of the University of California Irvine campus headed back to school on Monday although classes will take place online for at least two weeks, the school says. On the day classes resumed, the school acknowledged firing an outspoken professor who refused to be vaccinated. On Monday, UCI fired the outspoken School of Medicine and director of the Medical Ethics Program, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, for refusing the vaccine. It is the school's strict adherence to vaccine policies that enabled many families to want to send their students back to school. Though some students would remain at home, many arrived back...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty on 4 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud after 7 days of jury deliberation. Jurors found her not guilty on four other counts and failed to reach a verdict on three others. Her trial spanned more than four months and featured bombshell testimony from investors, ex-employees, and Holmes herself.

Scott Davidson, the CEO of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica, said last week that the death rate in Indiana is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people. The shocking admission by Davidson was made during an online news conference that was organized by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, reports TheCenterSquare. According to Davidson, the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and the deaths are not in the old, but in “primarily working-age people 18 to 64”. “Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be a 10%...

A Swedish start-up tech company has invented a scannable microchip that is implanted in people’s arms and can display your COVID-19 vaccination status. This digital implant is designed to be embedded into people's arms so your vaccine passport pops up when scanned.Created by the tech start-up Dsruptive Subdermals, the controversial invention is made of a pre-programmed scannable implant two millimetres by 16 millimetres in size.The invention received a lot of attention when first announced with some describing it as "invasive".One Twitter user argued: "Look, I’m as pro-vaccine as anyone around…AND I’m pro-vaccine passport (on a voluntary basis only), but this...

The Trial of the Century Takes the Pope to Court. Which Also Risks an Incident With ChinaAmong the papers in the possession of the Vatican tribunal called to judge Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants, with the next hearing scheduled for January 25, there is an explanatory note at the top of which it is written that “during the board meeting of April 6 the Holy Father gave the authorization to make the aforementioned Note public.” Signed: Edgar Peña Parra, substitute secretary of state.This is what Settimo Cielo does in this post: provide readers with the essential features of...

@julie_kelly2 Interesting filing today in Oath Keepers case. Defense wants to subpoena Ray Epps, Stewart Rhodes, and Officer Harry Dunn, who several Oath Keepers say they helped protect from violent protesters. Trial in April: Docs...