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The most troubling part of the pandemic to me is the lack of transparency and accountability. The authorities love to create mandates we must follow, but they refuse to be held accountable.Steve KirschJan 22 Here’s a list of questions that you can ask your doctor, local, state, and federal lawmakers and health authorities. I haven’t had any luck getting any of these questions answered on camera so I can share the answers with you. Perhaps you will have better luck.There aren’t 100 questions here yet, but there will be when I’m done with this. Check back in a few days...

A composite score can identify patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with very low risk for requiring treatment, according to a study published online Jan. 14 in the European Journal of Haematology. Christian Brieghel, M.D., Ph.D., from Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues developed and validated a prognostic index to identify newly diagnosed CLL patients without need of treatment (WONT) by a training/validation approach based on data from 4,708 patients. Composite scores were derived from weighted hazards to define CLL-WONT risk groups. The researchers observed independent associations for age (older than 65 years: 1 point), Binet stage (2 points), lactate...

For people who hate exercising, here comes some more bad news: it may also keep you younger. Not just looking younger, but actually younger, on an epigenetic level. When the mice were studied after two months of progressive weighted wheel running, it was determined that they were the epigenetic age of mice eight weeks younger than sedentary mice of the same age—24 months. Murach noted that while the specific strain of mice and their housing conditions can impact lifespans, "historically, they start dropping off after 24 months at a significant rate." Needless to say, when your lifespan is measured in...

...I interviewed 10 families in Southern California about their choice to leave bricks-and-mortar schools, as well as several professionals who provide support to home-schoolers...Their rationales are diverse and the families span the socioeconomic and political spectrums: schools requiring too many COVID-19 safety protocols, or too few; the polarizing conversation around critical race theory; neurodivergent kids struggling with virtual instruction;and an overall waning faith in the public school system.Who is choosing to home-school right now is just as fascinating as the why. Overall, the proportion of American families home-schooling at least one child grew from 5.4% in spring 2020 to 11.1%...

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity… but Not with Catholics Attached to the Tradition?For this letter, we’re reusing verbatim the title we gave to our letter #729 (January 15, 2020); it is perfectly topical today, as an opinion piece in La Croix reminds us. We’ll get back to that.Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowThe Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was created in January 1933 on the initiative of Father Paul Couturier (1881-1953), a priest from Lyon, for the unity of all baptized Christians, especially Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans and the Reformed. After the Council, this Week involved the organization of common...

* Amy Gallagher, 33, from South London, is preparing legal action against the Portman Clinic in North London, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust* Ms Gallagher alleges that she was told to watch an online lecture saying Christianity was part of the European oppression of black people* She also claims that she was asked to attend an online seminar called Whiteness – A Problem For Our Time, which claimed that all white people are racistOne of Britain's leading mental health clinics could face legal action after telling a student therapist to watch lectures saying that white people are...

The Wisconsin Assembly on Tuesday voted to withdraw its 10 electors for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The Wisconsin Assembly voted unanimously in a voice vote to in a privileged resolution withdraw its 10 electors for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The voice vote was unanimous and passed the assembly earlier this evening. The legislation will now move forward to the Rules Committee in the Wisconsin Assembly and to the Wisconsin Senate, bill 743, for immediate confirmation.

The newly consecrated Bishop David Bonnar of the diocese of Youngstown, Ohio appeared to confuse enthusiasm for jabs with 'current Church teaching'.YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — A newly installed Ohio bishop has issued a warning letter to his priests, banning them from speaking against the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines or government health mandates. Bishop David Bonnar of the diocese of Youngstown, Ohio has threatened to remove their faculties if they do. The bishop issued his letter last Wednesday, complaining that priests in his diocese have been condemning the COVID vaccines from the pulpit, which he described as “an abuse.” “Sadly, it has...

Former IGN journalist Alana Pierce, during an interview with The Serfs, shared her experience in the entertainment industry, in which she criticized the Chinese company Tencent, which is an investor in such well-known titles as League of Legends, Path of Exile, Black Desert, as well as Epic Games and even Ubisoft. Alana said she had a friend who suggested Tencent make the film, but the company agreed to do so on the condition that there were “no blacks” and “big boobs”. Alana added that Tencent demanded the same when developing games, for example, they say to increase the chest of...

Alfonso Galdón, founding president of the Spanish political party Valores, denounced Friday the Murcia city government for banning the pro-life “Cancelled” ad campaign. In a Jan. 21 YouTube message, Galdón stated that “the constitutional rights of the Spanish people have been violated by the Murcia City Council.” Pressure from the abortion lobby has led several Spanish city councils, including those of Valencia, Valladolid, and Murcia to ban the advertisements. The “Cancelled” campaign opposes a bill being pushed by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party which would criminalize "harassing women going to clinics for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy." Anyone promoting,...

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A one-time Swiss banking CEO who is on trial for fraud now says that the nearly $220,000 he spent at strip clubs was a legitimate business expense. Meanwhile, Swiss prosecutors have also alleged that Vincenz ran up a $4,500 hotel bill that included repairs to the room after he and a stripper he was dating at the time got into a “massive” fight that caused significant damage. Prosecutors want the 65-year-old Vincenz and his co-defendants to pay restitution totaling $77 million and serve six years in prison. All seven who have been charged are denying the allegations.

Extremist groups and individuals have made efforts to join the protest, raising security concerns A key player behind the convoy travelling to Ottawa to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers is distancing her movement from the increasingly extremist rhetoric online being associated with the protest and asking members of the convoy to report any extreme behavior to police. Addressing her Facebook followers in a video posted on the Freedom Convoy 2022 Facebook page, Tamara Lich said the convoy is expected to arrive at Parliament Hill in Ottawa over the weekend to protest what she calls infringements of personal liberty caused...

While at least two GOP Senate candidates have publicly stated they will oppose McConnell’s leadership bid in the new Congress, McConnell told CNN on Tuesday he will wait to “see what happens” after the midterms before crowning himself leader. Missouri candidate Eric Greitens and Trump-backed Alaskan candidate Kelly Tshibaka have both declared they would not support McConnell for GOP leader if they win in November. Though McConnell has not yet actively fought Greitens with PAC money, he was vocal about his support for Tshibaka’s opponent, establishment Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Murkowski voted to impeach Donald Trump and enabled Biden’s...

Had a call from my daughter Katy today. She's very very sick with Covid. She works at home and was not going to get vax, but she needed one to got to Hawaii with her husband for their anniversary and didn't want to waste time in quarantine. Had the one-shot J&J in September. Her husband also had to have vax, as he works for Sheriff's Dept. He had covid too, but it was like a bad cold and he got over it in three days.

At the end of January Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, former Minister of Interior of Finland, appears in court for sharing her beliefs on sexuality and marriage, based of Christianity teaching. The 62-year-old mother of five and the wife of a pastor is facing six years in prison on charges of “ethnic agitation”. In 2004, she authored a booklet on sexual ethics describing marriage as union between one man and one woman. She also made this point on a 2019 radio show, and in her Twitter messages, condemning support for gay pride parades and same-sex marriages by some Evangelical Lutheran pastors....

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Philosopher Robert Bellah once posited that modern Western human beings identify themselves in a peculiar way: as emotional cores, surrounded by baser material. According to Bellah, we are expressive individualists – .... And yet we have now, as a society, psychologized even COVID-19 in expressive individualist terms... Thus, Sara Haines of "The View" lamented, "I think some of the things we've learned in this pandemic will stay the same. I may never ride the subway without a mask, I may never go indoors to big crowds and feel comfortable without a mask." Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times explained,...

Vachik Mangassarian, a veteran actor known for his roles in NCIS, Calm your enthusiasm, and Agents du SHIELD. died at the age of 78 from complications of COVID-19. Representatives of Mangassarian have confirmed The Hollywood Reporter that he died in Burbank, California. The Iranian-born Armenian star moved to the United States at the age of 23 and landed his first Hollywood role in 1978. In the decades since, he has held a multitude of roles, including that of architect Qasim Zaghlul in Marvel. Agents du SHIELD and featured guest on Calm your enthusiasm. More recently, he appeared on NCIS :...

"There is a tiny minority of people who profit from circulating misinformation. They know very well everything; they just make it a way of living to circulate this misinformation; they are criminals... The biggest thing is because people believe those things...people who die are predominately not vaccinated. Millions of people have died because of them, this small number of criminals." Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Speaks To Israel's Channel 13- "The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg is concerned about the social dissatisfaction as a result of the corona measures. That has never been as high as it is...