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Bette Midler is the newest left-wing determine to equate final 12 months’s January 6 Capitol riot to the September 11 terrorist assaults, which killed almost 3,000 folks — claiming each occasions left her in related states of shock. The Hollywood star, who not too long ago needed to apologize for smearing West Virginians as “poor, illiterate, and strung out,” commemorated the January 6 riot in a collection of social media posts Wednesday. She referred to as it “one of the most traumatic days in American history” and blamed former President Donald Trump and Fox News. “Tomorrow is 1/6, one year...

Former President Barack Obama released a statement Thursday marking the anniversary of the January 6 protest, lamenting that a “sizable portion of voters” agree with the claims that he believes fueled the protest; he also warned that “our democracy is at greater risk today than it was back then.” “One year ago, a violent attack on our Capitol made it clear just how fragile the American experiment in democracy really is,” Obama began.

Conservative talk show host Larry Elder announced Tuesday that he won't challenge California. Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2022 election despite receiving the most votes in a failed recall effort against the Democrat last year. The radio host said in a statement to KTTV-TV in Los Angeles and Politico that he'll instead focus on launching a political action committee targeting legislative races in an effort to help Republicans regain control of the U.S. House and Senate. "I ran for governor because I wanted to make a difference," Elder said in the statement. "While I may not know what the future...

Adding a safe, inexpensive and easy to administer form of vitamin D to treatment for children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shows promise to improve measures of disease progression. Results of a randomized clinical trial comparing ergocalciferol supplementation to placebo, conducted by Benjamin Udoka Nwosu, MD. "There are new findings of clinical importance in this study," said Dr. Nwosu. "Ergocalciferol protected beta-cell mass and was useful for maintaining improved glycemic control during the honeymoon phase." Type 1 diabetes occurs when insulin-producing beta cells cease to function over time. During partial clinical remission, known as the "honeymoon phase" that may...

A vaccine authorized in December for use in India may help solve one of the most vexing problems in global public health: How to supply lower-income countries with a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe, effective and affordable.The vaccine is called CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured far more easily than most, if not all, of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today."CORBEVAX is a game changer," says Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health in Washington, D.C. "It's going to enable countries around the world, particularly low-income countries, to...

"There is no federal solution," President Joe Biden told the nation's governors last week while addressing surging COVID cases from the Omicron variant, the latest wrinkle in the coronavirus pandemic. "This gets solved at the state level." That's exactly what then-President Donald Trump said in 2020. While campaigning for the presidency, Biden accused Trump of "not having a plan" to beat COVID, while he himself did. Now, with this apparent reversal of his campaign message, Biden seems to be channeling the position championed by his predecessor, who said in April 2020 that the federal government should be a "backstop" for...

A Chicago Public Schools teacher battling cancer told Fox News on Wednesday that he will not stop in-person lessons, despite the Chicago Teachers Union vote requiring a return to virtual learning. The vote by the teacher's group went into effect on Wednesday, closing school doors after 73% of the union voted to halt in-person instruction. But one teacher isn't willing to say goodbye to his classroom again.

St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office responded to a call just before midnight on New Year’s Eve and found that Osteen, who was off duty, had tried to kill himself. His family removed him from life support Sunday, Mascara said. On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office learned of Pacheco’s suicide, although the sheriff didn’t specify when she died. The name of the child wasn’t shared.

Excuse the Vanity Post, I think some may be interested in a personal friend of mine who passed away recently, whose funeral is tomorrow. My dear friend Hans Heine, was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928 and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 and immediately sent to the Eastern Front to fight against the Russians, he has obviously seen the worst of humanity. In 1958 Hans, his wife and children immigrated to the USA and became citizens, he had a very successful business career and was a true friend, one of his sons joined the USAF and had over...

New research published in the European Journal of Epidemiology has found that mass “vaccinating” people for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) is not helping to stop the continued outbreaks. Even though governments and vaccine corporations claim that the injections are the best tool currently available to “stop the spread,” the data shows that the areas being hardest hit by new “variants” and waves of disease and death are those that have the highest injection rates. Vermont is a perfect example of this. It is currently one of the most highly vaccinated states in the country, and is also seeing the greatest...

Part 1: Savage welcomes Dr. Robert Malone. Why is the establishment focused on discrediting Malone? Savage asks about the difference between Covid vaccine and measles, etc. vaccinations.

LANGUAGE WARNING: a group of younger folks are seen on video harassing a Target worker and knocking over displays. The worker tries to kick them out, but they curse him out, knock things over, and may have harassed a customer as they walked by. It appears as though the employee has called police and is describing them.

Particles forming swirling, tornado-like structures. (Mukherjee et al, Nature, 2022 ============================================================================== Scientists have observed a stunning demonstration of classic physics giving way to quantum behavior, manipulating a fluid of ultra-cold sodium atoms into a distinct tornado-like formation. Particles behave differently on the quantum level, in part because at this point their interactions with each other hold more power over them than the energy from their movement. Then, of course, there's the mind-boggling fact that quantum particles don't exactly have a certain fixed location like you or I, which influences how they interact. By cooling particles down to as close to...

The hedge fund community dumped tech stocks in the four sessions between Dec. 30 and Tuesday as interest rates spiked. The four-session tech unloading marked the biggest sale in dollar terms in more than 10 years, reaching a record since Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage started tracking the data. Tech stocks are seen as sensitive to rising yields because increased debt costs can hinder their growth and can make their future cash flows appear less valuable. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has sold off more than 3% this week, underperforming the S&P 500, which dipped 1% during the same period.

Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the beginning of 2020, Kriegman had assumed the title of Director of Data Science and was leading a team tasked with implementing deep learning throughout the organization. But within a few months, this would all collapse....

Vaccine scientist Dr. Robert Malone believes there is some very good news emerging from the rapid spread of the coronavirus, suggesting that God may have given the world a “Christmas present” in the form of the omicron variant. Malone helped invent the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Appearing on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle,” he said omicron may well do what vaccines have not been able to fully accomplish to date: provide strong immunity. “Omicron blows right through the vaccines and through the triple jab,” Malone said, referring to the two-round initial shots...

Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last Picture Show whose career, which also included hits like What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon, put him on a path toward living up to the example of those like Orson Welles and John Ford he so lionized, has died. He was 82. Bogdanovich died shortly after midnight Thursday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Antonia Bogdanovich told The Hollywood Reporter. Bogdanovich, whose ever-present horn-rimmed glasses and ascot imbued him with a professorial air as he recounted the Hollywood lore he relished, catapulted to A-list status with his...

Fresh violence raged in Kazakhstan’s main city on Thursday after Russia rushed in paratroopers overnight to put down a countrywide uprising in the former Soviet state closely allied to Moscow....Nazarbayev’s hand-picked successor, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called in forces from ally Russia overnight as part of a Moscow-led military alliance of ex-Soviet states. He blamed the unrest on foreign-trained terrorists who he said had seized buildings and weapons.“It is an undermining of the integrity of the state and most importantly it is an attack on our citizens who are asking me… to help them urgently,” he said.

In response to two jurors revealing that they were victims of sexual abuse, Ghislaine Maxwell will request a new trial. Their experiences guided other jurors to convict her.The move became known during a rush of court filings on Wednesday after two jurors were interviewed, Scotty David and a juror who chose to remain anonymous. During the interviews, each of them admitted that they spoke of how they were abused with other members of the jury during deliberation.A reporter asked David if he remembered the question in the juror questionnaire that specifically asked potential jurors if they or any family member...

As previously reported, riots in Kazakhstan have lead to the Government resigning, an airport capture, and perhaps most importantly for bitcoin (BTC-USD), an internet blackout. In mid 2021, as China was cracking down on bitcoin miners, Kazakhstan was welcoming them - according to Cambridge University, Kazakhstan became the world's third-largest player in the coin mining industry. But with energy-price increases and now an absence of internet service entirely, Coindesk is reporting that hashrates are falling across a number of pools commonly used by Kazakhstani miners. What comes next in the unfolding story is unclear, but a further escalation in violence...