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The FDA’s Audacious Move to Boost Kids Aged 5-11yrsThis week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the use of a single booster of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11, at least five months after completion of a primary series of vaccinations. The CDC’s advisory committee is expected to rubber stamp the decision today.According to the FDA, the evidence underlying its decision came from a subset of 67 kids who were part of an ongoing trial and were boosted 7-9 months after their primary series. They showed higher antibody levels one month after the booster compared to before...

From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard drive and iCloud account and documents released by Republicans on two Senate committees. The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics and potential legal exposure. In December 2020, Biden...

A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic PreparednessThe World Health Organization (WHO), whose constitution defines health as ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,’ has recently orchestrated remarkable reversals in human rights, poverty reduction, education, and physical, mental and social health indices in the name of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO proposes to expand the mechanisms that enabled this response, diverting unprecedented resources to addressing what in terms of history and disease are rare and relatively low-impact events. This will greatly benefit those who also...

FIFTH WEEK OF EASTER JOHN 15:9-11 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus instructs us in the way of loving others with God’s love: “Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.” Much hinges on that little word “remain”—menein in the Greek—which John uses frequently in his Gospel. God’s love is given unconditionally as a grace, but remaining in that love is indeed a matter of keeping certain commandments. Here is how it works: God’s love can truly dwell in us and...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has apparently unveiled a new version of the LGBTQ+ pride flag for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) this week. Taking to Twitter, the leftist London Mayor wrote on Tuesday: “Today on #IDAHOBIT, I want to make clear that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia have no place in our city and send a message of solidarity to all LGBTQ+ communities around the world. We have to make sure that the progress of the past decades isn’t reversed.”

"Getting out of real prison is easier than getting out of Twitter prison," Shkreli, 39, wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday, referring to his ban from Twitter...In a throwback to the days when Shkreli was one of the most prominent trolls on Twitter, a friend of his tweeted a photo of them together smiling in a car after his release, with the caption: "Picked up this guy hitchhiking. Says he's famous."

What Sussmann said to Baker in 2016 meeting is at center of Durham case rmer FBI general counsel James Baker testified in court on Thursday that 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him that he was not representing any client when he brought him the information regarding the alleged secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. In the trial of 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, Baker testified that he was "100% confident" that Sussmann told him he was not giving him the allegation on behalf of a client. Because of this, Baker protected...

The Wisconsin Election Commission confesses to having 7.1 million people in their database, but only 3.68 million of them are eligible to vote. WEC and Sarah Whitt, the Government Accountability Board’s “Functional Lead” for the SVRS (Statewide Voter Registration System), stored everything in one database. Even deceased voters are not excluded. According to county clerks, it simply takes two clicks to reactivate voters. Other studies have shown missing data in needed fields, thousands of identical 1918 birth dates, incomprehensible text entries, missing last names or addresses, up to 25 Voter IDs for one registration, and other egregious errors. Charging $13,500...

In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo by an avowed white supremacist, a number of people on social media are working overtime to tar various people and groups with the label of white nationalism. Accusatory fingers are being pointed, primarily at various conservatives, without even attempting to find out what actually influenced the gunman. (I am purposely not using his name in this essay.) If we are serious about wanting to confront and defeat this evil — as I hope we are — then it would be helpful to do so from an informed position. Then we could...

Diesel consumers on the East Coast received some news Wednesday that may suggest an easing of the tight physical market squeeze in the region. There have been head fakes suggesting a softening of markets in the weeks since the East Coast diesel market ran away from the rest of the country. But they proved short-lived, as the weekly national average retail diesel price published Monday by the Energy Information Administration was $5.613 a gallon. The East Coast price was 33.1 cents more than that after a three-week increase that took the spread from 4.9 cents on April 25 up to...

In a small study of healthy adults aged 55 and older, 5 mg of melatonin increased total sleep time compared to a placebo. Researchers conducted the study in 24 healthy, older adults to evaluate whether a high-dose or a low-dose melatonin supplement could improve sleep. The team found that the higher dose had a significant impact, increasing total sleep time compared to placebo by more than 15 minutes for nighttime sleep and by half an hour for daytime sleep. The body naturally produces melatonin, which helps regulate a person's sleep-wake cycle with night and day. Melatonin levels peak at night....

Remember when the pandemic started, how everyone was looking for the Mark of the Beast in the vaccines, and cataloguing every moment of the New World Order rising over the globe? Well, here we are on Day 793 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, and what’s the number one most searched topic? The defamation trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, could there ever be a more useless subject of discussion? Stay asleep, America, it’ll all be over soon enough. “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17 (KJB) One of...

In four days, the World Health Organization will vote on resolutions that will give them emergency powers over any country they choose. The Biden administration initiated the measures but kept them under wraps until just a few weeks ago when the vote was a foregone conclusion. It was recently revealed that Israel fell into lockstep, backing the measure, though one exceptional politician has become the voice of reason in a government that has run amok. The World Health Assembly (WHA), the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing legislative body, will be voting on Provisional agenda item 16.2 in Geneva on May...

Adding cranberries to your diet could help improve memory and brain function, and lower 'bad' cholesterol—according to new research. A new study published today highlights the neuroprotective potential of cranberries. The research team studied the benefits of consuming the equivalent of a cup of cranberries a day among 50 to 80-year-olds. "Past studies have shown that higher dietary flavonoid intake is associated with slower rates of cognitive decline and dementia. "Cranberries are rich in these micronutrients and have been recognized for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The research team investigated the impact of eating cranberries for 12 weeks on brain...

Commencement season is upon us as college graduates prepare to enter the "grown folks' world" full time. Some were already "adulting" by working their way through school and paying their own tuition. I was thinking about my college graduation last Sunday, since commencement ceremonies are often held on the "Lord's Day" at historically Black colleges and universities. HBCU ceremonies are akin to church services, as the schools' gospel choirs belt out songs of praise to celebrate those reaching this significant life milestone. A longtime, humorous saying among HBCU grads is that some graduate summa cum laude, some magna cum laude,...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre "seems to have a habit" of characterising everything as racist, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. Ms Panahi said she could play "several minutes" of footage showing Ms Jean-Pierre labelling "everything racist". (Several examples are given. See video at link.)

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Wednesday said his country's ties with China will expand and "shift to a higher gear" when he takes power, signalling intent to advance outgoing leader Rodrigo Duterte's pro-Beijing agenda. Marcos, who won last week's election by a landslide, said he held "very substantial" talks by phone on Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who assured him of support for his "independent foreign policy", and agreed to hold more comprehensive discussions. The 64-year-old son and namesake of the notorious former dictator said Xi also acknowledged his late father's role in opening diplomatic...

A test for the common blood cancer multiple myeloma also holds clear clues that the patient has one of the most uncommon and deadly forms of this cancer, investigators say. While there is a specific test for this rare IgD multiple myeloma, the clues from standard testing are sufficient to rapidly initiate aggressive treatment to reduce or prevent kidney destruction by the excessive number of circulating proteins called light chains it produces, says Dr. Gurmukh Singh. Specific testing for IgD myeloma is available at a handful of reference labs across the country, but takes extra time and expense that may...

The New York Times had a cow over the apparent demise of President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board and painted it as a victim of — wait for it — disinformation. Times “veteran” foreign and national security correspondent Steven Lee Meyers published an asinine story headlined: “A Panel to Combat Disinformation Becomes a Victim of It.” Meyers mourned that the Department of Homeland Security was “suspending the work” of the DGB “intended to combat disinformation after what the department described as a deliberate disinformation campaign.” According to Meyers’ lament, “the fiercest denunciations came from the right,” which included correct characterizations...

Russia's Defence Ministry said on May 19 that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol. "Over the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist regiment surrendered," the Ministry said in its daily briefing on the conflict. "In total, since May 16, 1,730 militants have surrendered, including 80 wounded," it added.