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Antidepressants are no better at making people feel happier than taking no medication at all, a study claimed today. Patients on the drugs did not have a significantly better quality of life compared to depressed people who were not on the pills, the analysis found. Researchers looked 17.5million US adults with depression over 10 years, with around half on medication and half not. Results showed a slight improvement in mental health in both groups, regardless of whether they were on antidepressants. The researchers from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, called for more long-term studies on patients on antidepressants to evaluate...

Two election handicappers are collectively moving more than a dozen House races in the GOP’s favor, in the latest sign that Democrats are facing an increasingly bleak outlook in their bid to maintain control of the lower chamber in November’s midterms.

Gang member accused of shooting cop 6 times released on bail in Atlanta.. ... Christian Eppinger, a gang member accused of shooting an Atlanta policeman six times, has been released on bond. Eppinger, 22, reportedly shot an officer six times in an altercation outside Colonial Square Apartments in Atlanta, Georgia, as the police were serving an arrest warrant. The suspect was denied bond immediately after the shooting, but a new ruling on Tuesday reversed that decision. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hosted a press conference Wednesday with Police Chief Rodney Bryant to address the bond agreement. Willis stated that...

Daszak’s research in collaboration with the Chinese lab considered by many of being responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has went through continuous examination. Yet, the Wuhan collaborator Peter Daszak is demanding nearly $1 trillion to fund the ‘pandemic prevention’ efforts.President of the EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology using research grants sponsored by Anthony Fauci, has asked that President Joe Biden devote roughly $1 trillion in “pandemic prevention” at taxpayer expense.Daszak, who was born and schooled in the United Kingdom, is most known for his work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with Chinese...

In a cross-border ground assault supported by artillery, aircraft, helicopters, and drones, Turkey has launched an invasion of Iraq in order to take out the insurgent group in the northern part.According to the Defense Ministry in Ankara, Turkey has launched a large cross-border military attack against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents in northern Iraq.Defense Minister Hulusi Akar declared the operation in a video speech on Monday morning, saying it will include a comprehensive airstrike campaign involving jets, helicopters, and drones, as well as a land incursion by commando troops.Ankara asserts it eliminated many PKK bunkers, tunnels, and ammo depots, and...

The World Catastrophe Wrought by Covid LockdownsThe latest index of world food prices was released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on April 8th. The FAO’s Food Price Index climbed to 159.3 in March, which in real terms is roughly double its level in 2000, about 80% above its 2019 level, and the highest since records began in 1961.This graph indicates that civil war and famine in poor countries are now inevitable. World food prices were already 40% above pre-lockdown levels at the start of 2022 due to supply chain disruptions, caused largely by covid containment measures instigated...

Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. While smaller in scale than other aspects of Spygate, the Yotaphone hoax represents an equally serious scandal because it involved both the mining of proprietary information and sensitive data from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and the apparent surveillance of Trump’s physical movements. When Special Counsel John Durham charged former...

DeSantis threatens Disney special status UPDATE Florida Senate votes 23-16 to end Disney’s special tax privilege 🚨BREAKING: Florida Senate, on a 23-16 vote, just passed legislation ENDING Disney’s tax privilege, self-governing power & special exemption status. — Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) April 20, 2022 Senate also approved the new election map… It goes to the Florida House tomorrow. — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 20, 2022 DeSantis threatens Disney’s special status in Florida Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said that the state’s legislature will consider terminating the special status of a municipal district operated by Walt Disney Co., the Wall Street Journal reports....

After being doxxed by leftist sleazebag and professional victim Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post, Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel to give an update on how she’s doing. After a monologue in which Tucker Carlson accurately told viewers that @libsoftiktok has more followers than most CNN primetime shows, and detailed how the videos the account posts are a great public service to parents who need to know what psychopaths are teaching their children, he brought in Raichik. Carlson’s first question for her was...

Peter Schweizer details how China has captured American elites including politicians and heads of IT firms, and is using them to do their bidding.EXCLUSIVE: How The Atlantic Council Pulled Over The COVID-19 Matrix On The WorldThe Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) entry into the WTO changed the global economic structure in large part because it unleashed the regime’s strategy of gaining control of America’s elite class so they would do Beijing’s bidding, according to Peter Schweizer, author of “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China.”The CCP’s objective was to target the higher echelons of big tech, entertainment, education, Wall Street,...

The official, Kazem Gharibabadi, who is Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, said religious intolerance is spreading across Europe. “Sacrilege to religious sanctities is under no circumstances whatsoever acceptable. Religious intolerance is raging across Europe; and now, Sweden is morphing into a prison for Muslims with the support of the government,” Gharibabadi said on Twitter.The tweet came after a Danish-Swedish extremist burned the Holy Quran which enraged Muslims all over the world. “Seems they’ve missed Medieval Inquisition!” Gharibabadi quipped. On Wednesday afternoon, a number of Iranian university students gathered...

Shanghai, China has become a dystopian hellscape under the latest Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-imposed Covid-19 lockdown. Reports and videos testify to people starving to death because they are not allowed to leave home, Covid-positive children (even infants) separated from their parents, pets murdered by government officials, and people jumping to their deaths in despair. Yet the CCP continues to lie—and not be called on it in any major way by American government and media. Even a line from China’s own national anthem is reportedly being blocked on Chinese social media platform Weibo (Reclaim The Net: "China’s Weibo blocks lines of...

Netflix saw its stock tank 25 percent after it reported losing 200,000 subscribers in the company’s first quarter – the sharpest decline in a decade. “The company’s shares cratered more than 25% in extended hours after the report on more than a full day’s worth of trading volume,” reported CNBC. “Fellow streaming stocks Roku, Spotify and Disney also tumbled in the after-hours market after Netflix’s brutal update.” With the closing of the second quarter, Netflix is projected to lose 2 million global subscribers. In a letter to shareholders on Tuesday, the company said the company’s content still remains popular but...

Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., responded to a recent Kansas City Star article appearing to link her faith to "White Christian nationalism," which the congresswoman said tried to make her look like a "radical." The Missouri lawmaker is running for Sen. Roy Blunt's open seat in Missouri’s crowded GOP primary this August and was the subject of story titled, "Running God's way: Can Vicky Hartzler's 'conservative biblical values' win a Senate seat?" The article was published by the KC Star on Easter Sunday. Reporter Daniel Desrochers suggested Hartzler's Christian views about returning the country to its traditional values mirrored "White Christian...

UnionPay is afraid to cooperate with a number of large Russian banks because of the risk of secondary sanctions, RBC learned. Sanctioned banks that issued such cards or planned to do so are forced to abandon projects Large Russian banks that have been under blocking sanctions from Western countries will not be able to issue UnionPay cards, as the payment system is afraid to cooperate with them because of the risk of secondary sanctions. RBC was told about this by five sources in large banks, including those that fell under sanctions. An interlocutor close to Sberbank said that the bank’s...

Researchers promoted the medical transition of children through biased research after receiving funding from pharmaceutical companies that produce hormone therapy medications. Activists at an organization with the stated goal of helping young people obtain medical transitions published research claiming to find an association between medical transitions and improved mental health. Media outlets are promoting this research uncritically while failing to mention problems with methodology and conflicts of interest.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is one step closer to facing espionage charges in the US after a British judge formally approved his extradition. The case will go to Britain’s interior minister for a decision, and Assange, 50, still has legal avenues of appeal. A judge at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday issued the extradition order in a brief hearing, as Assange watched by video link from Belmarsh Prison. He stated his full name and date of birth. It is up to Home Secretary Priti Patel to decide whether to grant the extradition. The order comes after the UK Supreme...

The Covid epidemic was bad enough with the government shutdowns and deaths. But was even worse is that all the Fed monetary stimulus and Federal government stimulus “relief” led to a reversal of fortune. In that, the share of net worth held by the top 1% grew and the gap between the 1% and bottom 50% hit an all-time high. Now that the 1% have fed at the Federal trough, The Fed is anticipated to raise rates by 100 basis points at the next two meetings. Remember, REAL average hourly earnings are getting crushed under Biden and his pro-1% policies....

Airline passengers rebelling against the Biden Administration’s mask mandate for public transportation caused the number of unruly passenger incidents to skyrocket in 2021, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data show. Anti-mask airline passengers can rest easy after Monday’s announcement by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that it will no longer enforce the mask mandate on public transportation — but 2021 was a much different story, as airlines reported record-high numbers of incidents to the FAA during the year. Last year, airlines reported 5,981 unruly passenger incidents to the FAA — a 3,168% increase from the mere 183 incidents reported in 2020....

President Joe Biden will appeal a judge’s ruling that declared his mask mandate for those flying on federal airplanes unlawful if the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends it. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida declared the Biden administration’s airport mask mandate unlawful and held the CDC exceeded its authority.