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Some Injuries are for KeepsYesterday I met a 42-year-old optometrist who six days after the second mRNA COVID-19 vaccination suffered a distal aortic dissection. He was healthy and was physically fit. He knew something was wrong when back pain and leg weakness developed resulting in severe effort intolerance on vacation. He rushed home, was hospitalized and underwent the appropriate diagnostics to determine the presence of an aortic aneurysm or widening of the aorta and then a discrete tear which blood flow now goes through the true lumen and a false lumen created by the dissection. This occurs in the outer...

Megyn Kelly laughed uncontrollably on the air while co-anchoring a Fox News show more than a decade ago because one of her guests mistakenly said the word “farting,” she revealed on her podcast on Wednesday.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in an October 19, 2022 address that was aired on Channel 1 (Iran) that in the past, the West had dismissed Iran's missile and drone technologies, but that today admits that they are very dangerous and complains about Iran supplying them to "so-and-so." It should be noted that Khamenei's statement may be a reference to recent reports that Russia has been using Iranian-made drones in Ukraine. Khamenei also said that the drones are the pride of Iran. Later in the address, he said that industrial use of nuclear energy has increased throughout the world,...

Tucker Carlson says Kari Lake has suffered the 'cruelest and most outrageous possible attacks' during her campaign. A lot has been written about the corruption of politicians. You've seen that before, but really not enough has been said about how unbelievably boring they are in person. That's the main thing you notice when you have dinner with them. Their main interest is themselves. SNIP JD Vance in Ohio, Kari Lake and Blake Masters in Arizona, Joe Kent in Washington state, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania — none of these people have been in politics before. All of them seem to be...

Within days of each other, revealing portraits of the United States and China have been unveiled. In Washington, the Biden administration released its national security strategy. It says much about American psychology at a critical juncture. And Beijing witnessed the opening of the 20th Party Congress on October 16 and now ongoing that will see Xi Jinping confirmed as president for a record third term. It comes as the White House launches arguably its biggest move to compete with, and restrain, China in its technology war, curbing the ability of world and US chip makers to sell semiconductors and chip-making...

Saturday, October 22, 2022: Join the RSBN broadcast team LIVE from Robstown, TX for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump's Save America rally. President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Robstown, Texas on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 7:00PM CDT.

China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation is a Chinese state-owned company controlled by the People’s Liberation Army. So why are American cities contracting with them for their rail cars? Several large American cities have contracted with a Chinese state-owned rail car manufacturer to design and manufacture subway cars for their subway systems, raising serious cybersecurity and human-rights concerns. Over the past eight years, China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) has secured more than $2.6 billion in federal transit contracts to provide passenger railcars in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Lawmakers from both parties have taken notice, and are now demanding...

Just in case you thought Covid wasn’t bad or dangerous enough, Boston University is working to increase its lethality. In its latest defense of gain of function research, the university claims it is not that dangerous. Oh, really? The work is summarized in the research paper: The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of these phenotypes. We generated chimeric recombinant...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Oct. 20. From the TIMES special correspondent at Centreville, we learn that Capt. CONGDON, of the Second Virginia Cavalry, left that place on Saturday at noon with sixty men, spending the night at Bristow Station, and reaching a point near Catlett's on Sunday at noon -- wishing to capture a train the rebels were running on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. The party waited till near 4 o'clock, concealed, at which time a small detachment was advanced to the station, driving in the rebel picket guard. It was soon discovered that the enemy was guarding the train of...

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Workers quit in high numbers over the past few years — sometimes after being at the job under a year. Some employers are demanding that quitting workers reimburse them for their training costs. These agreements have generally been upheld in court, but are beginning to come under more scrutiny. Companies have grappled with labor shortages over the last few years as workers have quit at near-record rates. Now some businesses are trying to make it more costly for employees to join the Great Resignation. Nearly 10% of US workers are covered by training repayment agreement provisions, according to a study...

On Wednesday, a coalition of 18 state attorneys general announced that they will be leading an investigation of six major banks that have joined a United Nations-led effort to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions. As reported by the Daily Caller, the six banks that are being probed are Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley. The banks have all become members of the U.N. Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which aim to reduce all carbon emissions in their respective lending and investment portfolios by the year 2050. The NZBA, which was formed in April of...

Speaking in Pittsburgh on Thursday, President Joe Biden told the wife of Pennsylvania's Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, "You're going to be a great -- a great lady in the Senate." But Giselle Fetterman isn't the candidate. Her husband John, still recovering from a stroke that has impeded his ability to comprehend, is running for the office. Gisele kept John's Senate campaign going while he was recuperating, and she is a strong voice in that campaign. According to The Independent newspaper, at least, she is "something more than a surrogate, and closer to a running mate." On Thursday in Pittsburgh, with...

The Ukrainian army general staff says there is a heightened chance that Russian forces could launch an attack from Belarus to cut off supply routes for Western weapons and military equipment. Related video: Fears of joint attack on Ukraine as more Russian troops arrive in Belarus

The world’s largest iPhone factory, run by Foxconn Technology Group in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, has imposed tough Covid-19 control policies, such as closing its dine-in canteen, to keep production running normally amid a fresh outbreak that has put part of the city under lockdown. Foxconn’s Zhengzhou campus, which has about 300,000 workers, has banned all eating in and asked workers to take their meals back to their dormitories starting from 3pm on Wednesday, according to a notice on the factory’s official WeChat account. The company will provide three meals to the workers for free, and some departments,...

LONDON — After a whirlwind two months packed with drama and crisis, Britain finds itself right back where it was before with some of the same faces competing to become the third prime minister in just eight weeks. Supporters for the three presumed front-runners — Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and, yes, Boris Johnson — were out of the blocks early on Friday, setting out their pitches for why their person should get the keys to 10 Downing Street, the prime ministerial residence. Could Boris Johnson stage an extraordinary political comeback? What about Rishi Sunak, the bookies’ favorite who fell to...

China could invade the self-governed island of Taiwan as soon as this year, a senior US naval commander said. Admiral Mike Gilday, chief of US naval operations, raised the prospect of imminent war yesterday at a discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council in Washington. He was asked about recent official US assessments that China is building the capability to seize Taiwan by 2027. “When we talk about the 2027 window, in my mind that has to be a 2022 window or potentially a 2023 window,” Gilday said. “I can’t rule that out. I don’t mean at all to be alarmist...

In 2021, the Washington State legislature passed a ban on future sales or manufacturing of magazines, or other feeding devices which hold over 10 rounds. It does not include .22 rimfire tubular magazines. From the law:(36)”Large capacity magazine” means an ammunition feeding device with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition, or any conversion kit, part, or combination of parts, from which such a device can be assembled if those parts are in possession of or under the control of the same person, but shall not be construed to include any of the following:The Washington State magazine...

21 October 2022Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Saints Peter and Paul, Peremyshlyany, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 4:1-6 ©One Body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one GodI, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you...