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I would like to discuss very disturbing statistics from the UK, that clearly shows that Covid is becoming a chronic disease, in the same sense as AIDS is a chronic disease. Covid, for many Brits, is an illness that will just not go away. Endless bouts, recurrence, or even never-ending disease, is now the norm and not the exception, and will lead to a catastrophe. Covid, now a “chronic disease” that makes people ill continuously or very frequently, is completely opposed to “endemic disease”, like colds, that would make people ill for just a few days a year. Before I...

A man and a woman were killed in a shooting attack in Hadera. Four were seriously and moderately injured. The two Arab terrorists from Umm al-Fahm were eliminated. The terrorists are Ayman Igbaria and Ibrahim Hassan Yussef Agbaria, residents of the city of Umm al-Fahm. Ibrahim was imprisoned after traveling to Turkey to join ISIS about six years ago. He was released and, like his friend who carried out the attack in Be'er Sheva, went out to carry out an attack. The terrorists were armed with numerous weapons and ammunition on a large scale from several cartridges, pistols, long weapons,...

New data revealed a major increase between Dec. 2021 and Jan. 2022 in loans sent to foreclosure. This shows they’re on the rise. A report from Black Knight shows that lenders took back over 2,634 homes in February 2022. That was a 70% more than 2021.

President Joe Biden’s administration has eliminated United States tariffs on more than 350 products made in China, nearly all of which could be made in the U.S. or other countries. The Section 301 tariffs on billions of dollars worth of China-made products were first imposed by former President Trump after a decades-long free trade consensus in Washington, D.C., that has eliminated 3.7 million American jobs from the U.S. economy from 2001 to 2018.

It is always worth a brief reminder when looking at statements from foreign politicians under the influence of the U.S. government via the state department, that all messaging – even messaging that seems provocative, is coordinated by the alignment of interests. The process of promoting a mutually beneficial reality is especially important when reviewing any current statements from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. There is no sunlight between the agenda of Zelenskyy and the agenda of the U.S. State department. .... The State Dept (CIA) use the media to create the desperation and hero narrative. The hero begs for help, the...

For three years now, the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights group in the U.S., has awarded Nestlé Purina with a perfect score on its Corporate Equality Index. The organization’s national benchmarking survey scores businesses on their corporate policies and practices relating to the LGBTQ community. While we are proud of our perfect score, we’re prouder of the hard work we’ve done to become a welcoming, inclusive employer. We do this because it’s the right thing to do from a moral and business perspective. We firmly believe that all employees — regardless of their sexual or gender identity...

Actress Sally Field says that if she sees Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) or Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), she “cannot be responsible for what I would do.” “Those men who are doing that, and they’re mostly male governors who are doing it, are so backward, so ignorant and really just power hungry,” the Forest Gump star told Variety, after being asked what she thinks of these pro-life legislation in states like Texas and Florida. “I think it’s criminal. They’re so wanting to roll back the achievements and important progress for women, for blacks, for the LGBTQ community. I can’t...

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TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo police are searching for a suspect in a shooting and robbery late Friday night. Family members say a man was walking home in a south Toledo neighborhood when someone with a gun approached him and followed him back to his house. Police say the victim was shot in the face and robbed in the 400-block of Crittenden Ave. around 11:30 p.m

Sat together in a row of wheelchairs, the medically discharged soldiers - some missing entire limbs - waited in silence as deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin waxed lyrical about their courage and sacrifice, before being presented with their rewards... Each soldier shared a handshake with Fomin and declared: 'I serve Russia!' as the Colonel-General pinned a medal to their chest, but the prideful facade could not conceal the troops' real feelings. The video, broadcast by the Kremlin-controlled Channel One, showed clear expressions of terror and despair emblazoned across the young men's faces. Fomin reeled off a list of cliches as...

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday said President Biden's speech in Warsaw, Poland, was "very strong" despite an apparent gaffe toward the end regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin remaining in power. "I thought the president's speech was very strong, despite the ad-lib at the end, and the gaffe at the end, but it was a powerful speech that does not match the action," Portman said while appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and corporate raider, said that the American economy could be in for a “recession or even worse” as policymakers struggle to bring rapid inflation under control. “I have kept everything hedged for the last few years,” the founder and chairman of Icahn Enterprises told CNBC. “We have a strong hedge on against the long positions and we try to be activist to get that edge … I am negative, as you can hear. Short-term I don’t even predict.” Icahn sounded a pessimistic note as to whether Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s plan for further rate hikes...

Diversity & inclusion is an integral part of Nestlé’s culture. It is one of the ways to bring our purpose – enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future – and values to life. Therefore, we are publicly supporting the United Nations Standards of Conduct to support the business community in tackling discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people. Nestlé’s values are rooted in respect. This means respect for ourselves and for others, respect for diversity, and respect for the future. As a global and multicultural company, we are committed to promoting the inclusion of...

China's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) said they have identified 120 of the victims using DNA testing, including 114 passengers and six crew members. Monday's crash of the Boeing 737-800 plane marks China's worst air disaster in more than a decade. Flight MU5735 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou with 123 passengers and nine crew members on board, when it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, the CAAC said in a statement. The recovery of the flight data recorder, along with the cockpit voice recorder discovered on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis, should...

The US Labor Department’s investigations have already culminated in 749 fraud-related unemployment charges amounting to an alarming $100 billion COVID fraud and still counting.On Thursday, top oversight officials informed senators on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that reaching a top-line number for pandemic relief fraud is not currently possible because of data shortages and ongoing recovery activities.When challenged regarding fraud levels in the $5 trillion-plus in pandemic relief expenditures, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, leader of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, informed ranking member Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), “I wish I could answer that right...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, better known as Sinopec, is planning its highest capital investment in history for 2022 after recording its best profit in a decade, echoing Beijing’s call for energy companies to raise production. It plans to produce 281.2 million barrels of crude oil and 12,567 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022, up from its output of 279.76 million barrels and 1,199 billion cubic feet in 2021. Beijing seeks to ensure energy safety in the country amid intensifying geopolitical risks. It wants to keep annual crude oil output at 200 million tonnes and...

Mosques in Minneapolis will now be able to broadcast the “Adhan,” or public call for prayer, multiple times each day. In a move pushed for by Councilmember Jamal Osman, mosques will not need to apply for permits to broadcast outside their doors if noise ordinances are followed. “This is huge. This is huge to many people who call Minneapolis home,” Osman said. Prior to the change, many members of Minneapolis’ Muslim community relied on alarms and timers to know the proper time to pray – a practice done five times throughout each day. “In our faith, it is obligatory,” said...

A new report argues a yearslong abuse scandal from a prominent former director at Branson-area Kanakuk Kamps was more widespread and systemic than reported before. The report, published Sunday on The Dispatch, includes new documents, interviews and analysis about the years Peter Newman rose from the ranks of counselor to camp director and how he abused young boys along the way. Newman pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexually abusing boys in 2010 and received a sentence that would put him in prison for the rest of his life, but that was just "the tip of a terrible iceberg," the...

Top ten states with the most secure elections: 1 Georgia 2 Alabama 3 Tennessee 4-t Arkansas 4-t Florida 6 Texas 7 Louisiana 8-t South Carolina 8-t Wisconsin 10 MissouriBottom eleven states with the least secure elections: 41 Utah 42 New York 43-t Massachusetts 43-t Nebraska 45-t New Jersey 45-t Washington 47 Vermont 48 Oregon 49 California 50 Nevada 51 Hawaii

In the Washington D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Va., carjackings have made the news lately. Thieves steal cars at Virginia gas stations and race across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac and into Maryland to relative safety. The Department of Justice doesn’t seem to be doing anything about enforcing the federal laws prohibiting transport of stolen goods across the Virginia-Maryland state line. If the carjacker was named James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, things would be very different. The saga of James O’Keefe’s quite possibly completely legal acquisition of Ashley Biden’s diary, and the resulting DOJ secret seizure of his emails...