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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines instructing the public on how to mitigate the risk of transmitting monkeypox while engaging sexually with a partner. While touting the monkeypox vaccine, CDC recommends anyone with monkeypox abstain from sex. "Vaccination is an important tool in preventing the spread of monkeypox. But given the current limited supply of vaccine, consider temporarily changing some behaviors that may increase your risk of being exposed. These temporary changes will help slow the spread of monkeypox until vaccine supply is adequate,” the federal agency states in its Aug. 5 guidance.”If you or a...

According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), the attack took place on July 28. The scooter was estimated to be worth $30.00. The three teenagers in the security footage provided by the authorities appear to be black. The NYPD is requesting help from the public in locating the suspects. The apparent mugging is just the latest crime in New York City. According to the NYPD, arrests for major felonies “are up nearly 29% so far in calendar 2022, compared with the first seven months of 2021.” -snip New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) ran for election in 2021...

"Russia repeating in Ukraine the same random terror shelling of civilians until they leveled Grozny---- Russia did the same in Syria. When Chechnya declared itself a republic free from Russia, they were obliterated. But now, Russia's little Putin says areas in Ukraine have the right to declare themselves free republics from Ukraine (and of course later be absorbed by Russia)----irony, dripping with hypocrisy. Chechens joining up with the Ukrainians gives them an ideal opportunity to eliminate hundreds if not thousands of Russian soldiers. This will make it far easier for them to overthrow Kadyrov and gain their freedom from Russia....

If you don't take collapse seriously, I don't take you seriouslyRegular readers know by now that I am a big fan of the demographic-structural theory (DST) proposed by cliodynamicist historians such as Jack Goldstone and Peter Turchin. The reason I find it so interesting is because of how intellectually satisfying it is. Most theories of history are linear and progressive, and their proponents often struggle to force a progressive narrative onto otherwise cyclical and chaotic series of historical events. Demographic-structural theory, through its explicitly cyclical approach to understanding the rise and fall of empires, not only makes more sense intellectually,...

Dr. William Makis MD has tracked THIRTEEN Canadian doctors that have suddenly died : UPDATE on Canadian doctors "dying suddenly" I've now tracked 13 Canadian doctors "sudden deaths" (thank you to everyone who contributed info). This is the most complete data set I've seen anywhere by far. Three doctors died while exercising (two swimming, one running), two of them were very high level athletes. Three doctors died "in their sleep" unexpectedly. Two doctors also had aggressive cancer that had arisen within the past year. All of them were at least triple vaccinated due to illegal vaccine mandates. Remember: these are...

Under President Trump, the black unemployment rate fell to historically low levels, a fact that Democrats and the media never acknowledged.This week, Democrats, the media and the Biden administration are bragging about the new jobs report, but failed to mention that the black unemployement rate is going up.It’s amazing how selective they can be with the facts when it serves their purposes.Townhall reports:Labor Participation Drops in July As Black Unemployment IncreasesThe United States Department of Labor reported on Friday that 528,000 jobs were added in July, reducing the unemployment rate to 3.5 percent, down 0.1 percent from June’s read and...

Once, I believed that the world is run by experts who know what to do. I believed that the best answer to a crisis is to listen to the experts and do what they say because they know best and can be trusted to have our interests at heart. Yeah, I was an idiot. In my defense, I was young. Now I know better. The list of expert failures is a long one. The Vietnam War, which predated my youthful enthusiasm for experts, was launched by what David Halberstam mockingly called “the best and the brightest” in a book by...

Kosovo’s interior minister said on Saturday it has arrested a Russian journalist at the border on suspicion that she could be a spy, and security authorities were searching “for her intentions.” The country’s interior minister Xhelal Svecla named the journalist as Daria Aslamova. “Many countries have proven that she was engaged in espionage for Russian military intelligence and that she pretended to be a journalist,” Svecla said in press statement. Reuters could not verify Svecla’s accusations.

President Biden continues to harbor the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) in his body. He first contracted COVID-19 on July 21, two and a half weeks before the present. Is this because of immunosuppression - due to his heavily boosted status, or for some other reason? That being said, the single antiviral drug regime of Paxlovid may also be causing the virus to stay in his body for a long time, an effect otherwise referred to as “the rebound” effect:“The hypothesis is that the immune system didn’t have a chance to see the full extent of the virus, since Paxlovid suppressed replication...

he Mercedes-Benz driver who caused a multi-car crash at a West Los Angeles intersection that left six people dead on Thursday has been ... 37-year-old nurse Nicole Lorraine Linton. Linton sustained moderate injuries in the collision and was taken into custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. ...Linton is a traveling nurse at Kaiser Permanente's West Los Angeles Medical Center. [I]nvestigators said Linton had been driving over 100 miles per hour (mph) in a 35 mph zone at around 1:30 p.m. PT on Thursday.

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Walton County couple has been arrested and are facing child sex crime charges for acts deputies say they committed against their adopted children. Last month, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in unincorporated Loganville where they believed a man was downloading child pornography. When interviewing him, the suspect admitted to collecting child porn and identified a second suspect in Oxford. The suspect told deputies that the other suspect was making the child porn with at least one child who lived in his home. The first suspect’s identity has not been released. Deputies were...

Hua Chunying, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, accused the US of interfering in Beijing’s internal affairs. Chunying also said the US should have stopped Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week. The Chinese embassy has warned Australia against involvement in its actions over Taiwan, saying “finger-pointing” against Beijing was unacceptable, reports Reuters. Foreign minister Penny Wong on Friday condemned Beijing’s “disproportionate and destabilising” actions, saying she had expressed her concern to her Chinese counterpart at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. The Chinese embassy in Australia responded with a spokesperson’s statement on Saturday expressing concern and “discontent” about the remarks from...

The damage was serious enough to delay the launch, which was pushed back to late September earlier this month. The rocket stage was damaged while riding on the back of a tractor trailer between California and Texas. There's a lot riding on a successful Crew-5 launch right now, the fifth operational flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. For one, the crew of four includes a Russian cosmonaut. Despite ongoing tensions between Russia and the United States over the former's invasion of Ukraine, the joint mission was announced earlier this year — and appears to be moving full steam ahead.

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease—and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process. These findings could help people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a term for liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol, which affects 25% of all adults. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease involves fat build-up in the liver and is a cause of liver transplants. Its prevalence is due to its association with diabetes and obesity. When the condition progresses to inflammation and scar tissue formation, it is known as...

Governor Ron DeSantis this week suspended Soros-backed Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren. DeSantis suspended the state attorney because he refused to enforce Florida’s abortion laws. "Warren said that it doesn’t matter what the legislature does in the state of Florida. He is going to exercise a veto over that. He’s also instituted policies of ‘presumptive non-enforcement’…that is not consistent with the role of a prosecutor. You can exercise discretion in individual case, but that discretion has to be individualized and case specific,” DeSantis said as he announced Warren’s suspension. Andrew Warren ran to the lefty media to complain about DeSantis’ decision...

Western capitals are more and more alarmed concerning the deepening financial co-operation between Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, warning of the mounting threat that the Nato member state could possibly be hit by punitive retaliation if it helps Russia keep away from sanctions. Six western officers informed the Financial Times that they had been involved concerning the pledge made on Friday by the Turkish and Russian leaders to broaden their co-operation on commerce and vitality after a four-hour assembly in Sochi. One EU official stated that the 27-member bloc was monitoring Turkish-Russian co-operation “more and more closely”,...

Campaigners have called the move "a witch hunt" and say it will prevent them from carrying out life-saving work in the conservative East African country.The Ugandan government has suspended the work of the country's leading LGBTQ rights organization, accusing it of "operating illegally." The authority that regulates NGOs in the East African nation said in a statement that the group Sexual Minorities Uganda did not have a valid NGO permit and must cease operations immediately. Sexual Minorities Uganda has for years advocated for the rights of LGBTQ people in the conservative country, where homosexuality is criminalized. ... an attempt to...

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Luke 9:28b–36 Friends, today’s Gospel recounts the story of the Transfiguration. Here, the glorified Jesus represents the fulfillment of the Old Testament revelation, symbolized by Moses, representing the Law, and Elijah, representing the prophets. Let’s look at the two basic divisions. God gave the Torah, the Law, to his people, in order that they might become a priestly people, a holy nation, a people set apart, in the hopes that they would then function as a sort of magnet to the rest of the world. But the Law didn’t take. From the very...

© Provided by Washington Examiner Russians deploy Iranian drones into battlefield, Ukrainian government official says Russia is now using drones purchased from Iran in Ukraine as the war nears its sixth month mark, according to an adviser for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian President’s Office, said on Friday that Iran had provided Russia with 46 drones, though it’s unclear if that’s the total number of drones Iran agreed to supply or if more are on its way, according to the Institute for the Study of War’s latest update. Some of the drones are older-generation...

"Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. "And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith." "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" Luke, Chapter 17 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they...