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The pandemic happened. It was real. But the real destructive force was not the Coronavirus. The evil was the insanity of lockdowns, mandates and burdening future generations with massive government debts. Compare this modern madness with the compassion and sense of fiscal restraint implicit in the attitudes of Javanese noblewoman, R A Kartini, when talking about what her father, a Regent, could do for the victims of floods in her era, the early 1900's: "....... the rulers do all that is possible to mitigate the distress. Last year a fishing village lay for a whole week under water; day and...

Hosts at Fox News had serious concerns about allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election being made by guests who were allies of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network. “Sidney Powell is lying,” about having evidence for election fraud, Tucker Carlson told a producer about the attorney on Nov. 16, 2020, according to an excerpt from an exhibit that remains under seal. The internal communication was included in a redacted summary judgment brief filed Thursday by attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems. Carlson also referred to Powell in...

Credit where credit is due. Fox News Jesse Waters has been holding the spotlight on the government and railroad officials who have been downplaying the issues after the toxic chemical spill and explosions in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. {Direct Rumble Link} The residents of the community are reporting several ongoing health issues and a community townhall was scheduled today. However, executives with Norfolk Southern Railroad cancelled their attendance, leaving the citizens of the community frustrated. Additionally, the railway contracted air and water testing with a company well known for minimizing the effects of environmental disasters to satisfy its...

South Africa's governing African National Congress has long-standing ties to Moscow, which supported its struggle against a racist apartheid regime that many Western states considered a Cold War ally...said Cobus van Staden of the China-Global South Project. As Russia and China now seek to build new international coalitions, he said that history is coming to the fore in Africa where some nations are keen for alternatives to Western hegemony.

Update on Andrew Tate charges. He fears being killed They are going for 2 more months of investigation.

Hollis died at his house in Austin, Texas. His cause of death had not been determined on Tuesday, though he had previously been hospitalized for issues with his heart, Variety reported.

A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and pains. Nobody imagined that it would become the go-to drug for treating moderate, let alone severe, postoperative pain. But this is just what has happened. Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs. Now, doctors frequently offer only acetaminophen to treat painful conditions despite the drug’s inability to remedy them. Policymakers’ exaggerated fear of opioids has pressured hospitals, doctors and dentists to switch...

What if an over-the-counter allergy medicine could help halt and even reverse multiple sclerosis? And if it did, could patients return to their full capacity? Those were some of the questions posed by Jonah Chan, Ph.D., and Ari Green, MD. The two had discovered in the lab that the medication clemastine—originally approved as an antihistamine—could repair myelin, the protective insulation around nerve fibers that is damaged in MS. That early discovery in Chan's lab, in which clemastine was shown to stimulate the differentiation of myelin-making stem cells, led to clinical trials to test the therapy in people. Surprisingly, these were...

Canadian warships will be sent to the coast of Haiti. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the move at a meeting of Carribean leaders... Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro changing his position on the death penalty. Shapiro now opposing capital punishment... Pennsylvania US Senator Democrat John Fetterman hospitalized at the Walter Reed Military Hospital for 'clinical depression'... Wholesale inflation in the US rising .7 percent in January... Markets in the US today down... Unemployment rising in Australia... Politics in the USA today some of the report from a Democrat Atlanta prosecutor's grand jury probe of President Trump and his supporters released... Joe...

High-dose oral vitamin D reduced skin inflammation and increased immunoprotection in patients with chemical-induced skin rashes, according to findings from a recent clinical trial. The investigators, led by Kurt Lu, MD, also discovered in these patients a new molecular signature that may help physicians identify which patients have an increased risk of developing severe allergic reactions to treatments including topical chemotherapy. "Oral vitamin D is a safe and readily available over-the-counter nutritional supplement with anti-inflammatory and immunoprotective properties, while boasting no adverse effects," Lu said. "This study also provides a new avenue of exploration for druggable targets to both reduce...

Denver’s crime continues to rise in contrast to the statewide crime rate. The Common Sense Institute, a free-market think tank and policy analysis group, published a study on Denver crime ... The study tracks how Denver’s crime rates spiked over the pandemic and have continued to rise. It suggests that the Mile High’s problem is unique to Denver, rather than Denver being an example of a statewide crime problem, though it does not include a comparison of other cities’ crime rates. ... Denver’s average monthly rate of crimes per 1,000 people reached a high last year of 9.01 – a...

The drug lasmiditan, which is used to treat migraines, shows promise as a possible treatment for acute kidney injury, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. Researchers conducting this study are working to develop a drug to treat acute kidney injury. The disease, which is characterized by rapid kidney failure, occurs in approximately 8% to 16% of hospitalized people and affects more than 13 million people worldwide. The condition can be caused by a variety of factors, including some medications and sepsis. Acute kidney injury can lead to physiological problems, such as mitochondrial dysfunction, damage to small...

Twitchy favorite Heather B has been known to drop some pretty savage tweets and threads in her time (they don’t call her the dips**t whisperer for nothin’), and this one on protecting children from life/body-altering decisions pushed by the trans movement is no exception. She always seems to find a way to put exactly what you’re thinking into words … and most of them are pretty damn vicious. But effective. Take a look: Me: Maybe we should discuss what studies done in Finland, Sweden, and the UK have found about giving blockers and other drugs to children and teens? Them:...

Chinese spy balloons have briefly captured the nation’s imagination, but they’re just another in a series of surveillance layers that begins with satellites and ends with phone apps. The spy balloons seem odd, but they reveal the thoroughness and dedication of Beijing’s data hounds who are not satisfied with hacking us, embedding thousands of spies in our universities and tech firms, but want that added edge with slow-motion spying on our bases and defenses. The balloon may seem silly but it reveals a rigorous mindset that ought to be frightening. China’s economic warfare hollowed out our economy in the same...

“The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT.” These words were delivered by a former slave. The all-caps emphasis was his. In an 1852 speech entitled What to the Slave is the Fourth of July the inimitable Frederick Douglass called out the evil of slavery while praising an undeniable instrument of liberation: the U.S. Constitution.If you visit the National Museum of African-American History and Culture’s (NMAAHC) online exhibit of Douglass’ Fourth of July speech, you won’t see or hear any mention of the Constitution. It’s not the first or last time that the Smithsonian will suppress history. Remember, NMAAHC is the...

Attorneys representing a former Georgia police officer who expressed his Christian beliefs on social media say he was forced out of his job because of religious discrimination. Port Wentworth Police Officer Jacob Kersey resigned in January after being told by his supervisors he could be terminated for sharing his religious views on marriage. Kersey, 19, was placed on paid administrative leave following his refusal to take down a Facebook post from two days earlier in which he paraphrased the Apostle Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus. "God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church. That's why there...

California lost more than 500,000 people over the period from April 2020 to July 2022, coinciding with the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, but New York lost even more, according to new data from the U.S. Census.The Los Angeles Times reported:California has been seeing a decline in population for years, with the COVID-19 pandemic pushing even more people to move to other parts of the country, experts say. The primary reason for the exodus is the state’s high housing costs, but other reasons include the long commutes and the crowds, crime and pollution in the larger urban centers. The increased...

I maybe watch two episodes a month of Wheel of Fortune if I'm lucky. Tonight was some kind of Valentine's couples show and there they were, Charlie and Kelly (both guys). WTF is wrong with this country? BTW, I turned the channel moment's after I saw this as I couldn't stomach it.

And He's Got Nobody But Himself To Blame For The Fix He'll Soon Find Himself In Unlike the sham January 6 Committee, which was never able to find a real crime to refer Trump or his close associates for and ended up making a shallow and pretty much worthless referral of the former President to Attorney General Merrick Garland on it’s way out of power and into the dustbin of history, these new House Committees are investigating real and actual crimes. Understand: these new House Committees don’t have to do months of investigations to determine whether chargeable crimes occurred or...

Texas A&M is among the most conservative public universities in America, with a student body well to the right of its peers at other schools. Its traditions of military service and commitments to agriculture and mechanical sciences (the original meaning of A&M) connect it to meritocratic invention.Yet, for more than a decade, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies have transformed the university. Those governing Texas A&M think the school itself is racist—and they have adopted increasingly radical policies to transform it into a typical, leftist American university.As I discuss in a newly-released report, radical efforts to transform A&M began with...