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Cardiac computed tomography (CT) was as reliable as catheterization—the current standard diagnostic test for intermediate-risk patients—in people with suspected coronary artery disease. A comprehensive analysis of the study's results suggests that CT offers a similar level of diagnostic accuracy, in addition to being associated with a lower risk of complications. The research team recruited 48 patients into the trial, who underwent either invasive coronary angiography or CT coronary angiography. The team followed study participants up over approximately four years. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is common across the globe and is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Across from where the Athletics play baseball sits a two-story concrete building painted bright orange and white. It is home to a cannabis dispensary called Blunts and Moore. A pair of inflatable “tube guys” flap crazily on the roof, beckoning customers with their windblown gyrations. A food truck sells tacos in the parking lot under a bright California sun. But there are signs that all is not well here. Bullet holes etched by an assault rifle dot the entrance. Three security guards, dressed in military fatigues, screen customers as they pass through a metal detector. One of...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.Corporate media is warning us that it’s time to get ready for food rationing. Of course, they’re blaming Putin. But we know better.In the video below, Christian, host of Ice Age Farmer, says “brace for food rationing” and explains that this crisis is needed to advance the agenda, “I want to demonstrate that this is a deliberately engineered...

Tells of growing up in Dixon, IL, his mother, first job in show biz, etc.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer is expected to request authorization this week for an additional COVID-19 booster dose for seniors, according to a person familiar with the matter. It would add a fourth dose to the regimen, which currently consists of a primary series of two shots, followed months later by a booster dose, in an effort to provide maximum protection to the over-65 population that has been hit hardest by the pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control must approve the request. The person who spoke about the upcoming Pfizer authorization request spoke on...

A student of color is reportedly behind racist graffiti found Monday morning in a bathroom at a private Catholic all-girls school in Brighton, New York. Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women, a grade 6 through grade 12 school located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, announced Thursday that its investigation into the graffiti containing a racial slur has ended with a student coming forward and taking responsibility for writing the offensive message. "This school is filled with a bunch of n*ggers. Get out or else!!" the graffiti said. .....

Do to personal reasons I need to leave this website for good, how can I go about getting my account deleted?

NATO’s role in maintaining security in Europe has never been more critical following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That includes protecting member nations from climate change, according to new analysis from the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In the fund’s latest installment of reports called “NATO in a New Era: Global Shifts, Global Challenges,” Jamie Shea, NATO’s former deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges, said member states must not lose sight of security issues that go beyond political and physical borders. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted NATO’s objectives on climate change, but its climate agenda does...

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was precipitated by assurances from China, Germany, and the United States that each of Russia’s major trading partners either backed his position or had zero interest in getting in his way. President Joe Biden’s invitations to Putin to bite off more chunks of Ukraine made it clear that America was not interested in a fight with the Russian dictator in his own backyard. Surely, the mighty Putin would make quick work of the Ukrainians. After all, he helped put down the Syrian rebellion to preserve Iran’s stake in Syria, and thereby sealed Barack Obama’s nuclear...

At 6:33 Brandeau stops bloviating and VZ finally gets to speak. Very simple, heart piercing speech. In a nutshell, Thanks for all the help 'til now, but send us something to stop the cruise missiles coming in from Russia, and other aerial bombardments. Civilians are being targeted. Putin is genocidal.

After a briefing from the White House, TikTok influencer Ellie Zeiler blamed high gas prices and inflation on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“He was angry that he didn’t get to go to that BLM protest,” said Reffitt. “Well, he got to go to the BLM protest, I didn’t stop him from doing that- I just told him he couldn’t take Mom’s car and he was angry with me. That was going to be brought forward in trial in the questioning of him but it didn’t…” Reffitt’s inadequate public defender William Welch did not question Jackson Reffitt about this incident on the stand, nor did the government assigned attorney bring forth any defense witnesses. In fact, he barely defended his client at all....

Black Lives Matter co-founder and “trained Marxist” Patrisse Cullors — who resigned from BLM amid controversy about her personal wealth — says she has visited hate crime hoaxer and disgraced actor Jussie Smollett in jail, where she found that he has been “sleeping on a restraint bed,” which she called “unacceptable.” Cullors is now urging the public to call the jail and demand that Smollett be freed. “I’m in Chicago and was able to see Jussie today, and he’s strong, but what’s happening inside is just — it’s just unacceptable,” Cullors said in a recent video. “Today is the first...

Devon Archer throws up several more appeals trying to avoid the prison sentence, asset forfeiture he received last month. Hunter Biden's ex-business partner was convicted nearly four years ago of securities fraud and still he has not spent a day in prison. And now Devon Archer's lawyers are trying to delay his punishment yet again with a new appeal that did not amuse federal prosecutors. Archer faces one year and one day in prison and was ordered last month to pay financial penalties of $15 million and over $43 million in restitution. His arguments to appeal and postpone serving prison...

As inflation wholesale prices soar past 10 percent and gas prices continue to surge, economists and farmers across the country are warning about another looming crisis. Farmers are seeing a fertilizer shortage. Combined with high water and fuel prices, costs are set to soar as food becomes less available. Convo with farm today:- Meat processors booked out a year because stockpiling beef.- Farmers in South can’t get fertilizer for crops now.- Farmers in Midwest are switching, can’t get nitrogen nor fertilizer.Buckle up, folks! The media isn’t even warning you. #economy— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) March 11, 2022This is from a friend...

Researchers from Japan have found that the kidney is connected to the heart, in that kidney malfunction is associated with different types of stroke. Researchers found that patients showing indicators of poor kidney function are more likely to suffer a cardioembolic stroke but less likely to experience small vessel occlusion than patients with normal kidney function. Chronic kidney disease has a known link to stroke, as patients with impaired kidney function are twice as likely as healthy individuals to suffer from a stroke. There are several different kinds of stroke, however, and it's unclear whether poor kidney health makes people...

In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.Ukraine should cease all military action, recognize Crimea as part of Russia, accept the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk separatist enclaves, and enact a constitutional commitment to "neutrality," which would prevent Ukraine from ever joining NATO.Were this to be done, said Peskov, the war "will stop in a moment."As this would restore the situation in Ukraine to the "status quo ante" that existed before Putin ordered the invasion,...

Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine must accept it will not become a member of NATO - a statement that will be music to the ears of Vladimir Putin and could pave the way for some kind of peace deal between the warring nations. Zelensky, who has become a symbol of resistance to Russia's onslaught over the last 20 days, said today that 'Ukraine is not a member of NATO' and that 'we have heard for years that the doors were open, but we also heard that we could not join. It's a truth and it must be recognised.' His...

When it comes to our president or many other prominent world leaders, we have a pretty good idea of who they are and what makes them tick. But do we really know who Vladimir Putin is? Do we know what drives and motivates him? More specifically, do we know for sure why he has invaded Ukraine?We have been told that he wants to restore the glory of the former Soviet Union. This will be his legacy.We have been told that he is simply threatened by the expansion of NATO, dreading the possibility of nuclear weapons stationed next to the Russian...

There was a time before light became easier to produce in early American agrarian when Daylight Saving Time made sense. The utility of changing clocks twice a year has been long gone, but we’ve maintained it because changing it was a process. That process has begun. According to Reuters: The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, a move supporters say would make winter afternoons brighter and end the twice changing of clocks. The measure still needs approval from the U.S. House of Representatives and the backing of President Joe Biden. On Sunday, most of...