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Alzheimer's Association Supplemental thiamine [vitamin B-1] as a practical, potential way to prevent Alzheimer's disease from commencingFirst published: 28 July 2021 Author: Jeffrey Fessel “… In brief: it is easier to prevent Alzheimer's than to try to reverse it after it has developed. The data supporting the prophylactic use of thiamine are robust. In order to validate its use, a clinical trial is advocated that would enroll persons aged 65 or older who have evidence of depositions of amyloid or tau in their brains, and randomly assign them to take, for as long as 5 years, either thiamine 100 mgs...

A woman who volunteered in an American abortion clinic has told how she was called a ‘witch’ and ‘cheerleader for Satan’ by pro-life campaigners, who made her feel like an 'outcast' in her community before she left for Britain five years ago. Annie Smith, 23, helped at the centre with her mother near Memphis, Tennessee, around six years ago despite all her school friends having strong anti-abortion views. Pro-lifers would often come to the clinic and ridicule Annie - who now lives in the UK, but fears for her siblings living in America - outside of her workplace. The 1973...

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court delivered the right’s biggest single victory ever, and it may spell the end of the conservative movement as we’ve known it. It was Ronald Reagan who popularized the notion that the conservative movement rested on a fusionist “three-legged stool.” In theory, the three legs were free market economics, national defense and social conservatism. In practice, free market economics meant low taxes and pro-business policies. National defense meant anticommunism and, briefly, the war on terror. Social conservatism covered a lot of territory but the enduring core was opposition to Roe and abortion. Like...

In front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court — nearly a week after the landmark overturning of Roe v. Wade — the president of the National Organization of Women handed out pro-choice placards and pledged to keep fighting for abortion rights. Christian Nunes also had some strong words about the top court, calling it "compromised" and out of step with public opinion. "They're not ruling in favour of the people. They're ruling in their own moral viewpoints," Nunes said. That the recent decisions by the conservative majority court may not be in tune with average Americans is backed...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that nine new fields will come online in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico this year, which will account for 5 percent of natural gas production and 14 percent of oil production in U.S. federal Gulf of Mexico waters by the end of 2023. However, EIA expects that the additional capacity from these new fields will not sustain oil production at levels similar to the end of 2021 in offshore fields. According to EIA, declining production from existing Gulf of Mexico fields will largely offset the increases in oil production from the...

1 July 2022Friday of week 13 in Ordinary Time St. Junípero Serra's First Mission in California Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingAmos 8:4-6,9-12 ©A famine not of bread, but of hearing the word of the LordListen to this, you who trample on the needyand try to suppress the poor people of the country,you who say, ‘When will New Moon be overso that we can sell our corn,and sabbath, so that we can market our wheat?Then by lowering the bushel, raising the shekel,by swindling and tampering with the scales,we can buy up the poor for money,and the needy for a pair...

Man Gets Caught Smuggling 16 Migrants During Police Boat ChaseYou don't often see a police boat chase 😯

NeverTrump is up to its old tricks: bashing Trump, berating his supporters, and cheering his latest nemeses who almost always end up as farcical as NeverTrumpers themselves. At least their taste in Trump antagonists is getting better. After more than six years of bandwagoning with every haggard nemesis of Donald Trump—Stormy Daniels, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Alexander Vindman, and Marie Yovanovitch to name a few—NeverTrump reunited this week to swoon over a telegenic 25-year-old former aide in Trump’s White House: Cassidy Hutchinson. The latest actor to offer a cameo appearance in the January 6 select committee’s show trial caught the...

The alleged masterminds of an extremist plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and start a civil war ahead of the 2020 presidential election will be re-tried after a jury failed to reach a verdict in their cases earlier this year. A federal judge set a trial date in August for Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. Thursday after declining their lawyer’s request to clear them of conspiracy and weapons charges. “We don’t know what the jury was thinking. … There’s enough here to say that a rational jury could still go against Mr. Fox, go against Mr. Croft, even...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 29Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, 15 Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” 16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak[a] eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return...

A college degree is just about essential to make a lot of money in a career, but what if you don't want to work all that hard to get a diploma? Slackers wanting to earn the country's easiest college major, should major in education. It's easy to get "A's" if you're an education major. Maybe that's why one out of 10 college graduates major in education Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic evidence documenting easy A's for future teachers goes...

The Supreme Court opinion on the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen was released on June 22, 2022. It is a 6 to 3 opinion, which upholds the Second Amendment as applying outside the home and rebukes Circuit Courts for creating an unnecessarily complicated two step process in applying Second Amendment protection to statutes. The opinion is 135 pages long. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by Justice Alito, Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts, and Justice Barrett in concurring opinions. Justice Alito and Barrett concur in full. Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts simply concur.The opinion...

Democrats infiltrating the Republican Party is nothing new, but one group has the solution. Last week, audio released by Project Veritas documented a South Carolina Democrat conniving to secure local elections via duplicitous means. Among other things, Krystle Matthews said, “We need some secret sleepers. Like you need, we need them to run as [sic] the other side, even though they for [sic] our side. We need people to run as Republicans in these local elections.” The recording shocked many of the listeners – but it shouldn’t have. The Republican Party remains hopelessly infiltrated, and the Establishment is keen to...

LOS ANGELES - Kevin Ford, 54, of Las Vegas, Nevada is a man of grace and humility. He’s been working as a cook and a cashier at the Burger King in the city’s McCarran International Airport for the past 27 years. Ford said he’s never missed a day of work in that time. When he showed up to work earlier last week on the 27th anniversary of his employment, he didn’t make a big deal about it and not even his bosses were aware of the commemoration. But when he made a joke about the time he’s spent employed, management...

Save Independence Day. It is clear to me that the left has embarked on a campaign to reduce Independence Day to nothing more than a meaningless "holiday". The push is to elevate Juneteenth to a holiday that is more meaningful. Over the last week I have noticed a concerted effort in the media to downplay Independence Day. Even a lot of conservative people are referring to it as the Fourth of July. Push back against this movement and only refer to it as Independence Day. Remember, those that control the language control the battle sphere.

These endless crises sure are convenient for a globalist agenda, are we being played? COVID-19, Joe Biden, and Russian-Ukrainian ‘crises’ are pages from the same playbook written by an international clique that controls both sides. This global cartel presented us, the American public, with a false dichotomy. Either stand with their 21st Century perversion of our country of which we were once proud, or surrender our morally-ruined nation to the adversary of their choosing. America is a nation in decline, and for that reason we saw the installation of Joe Biden. He is the demented old face of a bygone...

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We as a nation are at that defining moment when one side has to win and the other lose; there is no middle ground. Not since the decade leading up to the Civil War has there been as much discussion about the possibility of the United States splitting into two or more countries as there has been in the past 10 years. The reality is that this nation has effectively split into two countries which are, for the moment, tenuously living side-by-side. Race or ethnicity has been the underlying foundation in the creation of every nation in the history of...

Summary/overview Since June 26, the noise from the Bavarian Alps (G7) and Madrid (NATO), mainly from the mouths of the same principal actors, has drowned out (as, one suspects, it was designed to do) much of reality, whether on the ground in Ukraine or, more importantly, in the global economy. I address some of those issues in the assessment below. In the Donbas, as is evident from the map, Russian troops are now in control of all territory east of the Donets River and the fighting for Lysychansk appears to be evolving faster than the capture of Severodonetsk. The main...

@OJOleka It was great to see my friend Senator @RandPaul today. I am thankful for his continued fight for personal liberty, economic freedom, and opportunity for all.