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In Ireland, there is an asylum or, more exactly, an “asylum” crisis. Muslim economic migrants have been flowing into the crowded country, and they’ve come up with a way to get themselves accepted without fear of being sent back to their countries of origin: they destroy their passports and other travel documents after boarding the plane that brings them to Ireland, but before going through passport control in Dublin. More on this scheme can be found here: “40% of asylum seekers are destroying their passports upon entry to Ireland,” by Thomas Brooke, Remix News, February 6, 2023:Irish authorities are ramping...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews reveal a new tuberculosis (TB) therapeutics that could shorten the treatment of the disease by up to two months, potentially saving millions of lives. Dr. Muge Cevik delivered the results of the worldwide TB Alliance's SimpliciTB clinical trial at the 30th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle on Monday, February 20. Tuberculosis causes about 1 million deaths every year. To change this and save lives, new tools and new treatments are required. Active TB must be treated with a combination of drugs; the most drug-sensitive forms of TB require...

A Tennessee teen visiting St. Louis, Missouri for a volleyball tournament has lost her legs after police say an unlicensed driver plowed through an intersection, failing to yield and striking another car and the girl, according to local reports and her volleyball organization. Surveillance video of the crash shared by Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis shows a speeding car rolling over through the intersection, highlighted by the booming sound of a crash. It happened before 9 p.m. Saturday on 11th Street near the intersection with St. Charles Street, according to the group. The suspect, 21-year-old Daniel Riley, was...

President Joe Biden’s sweeping plan to partially forgive student loans will likely receive a cool reception when the Supreme Court hears challenges to the program on Feb. 28, legal experts told The Epoch Times.Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Caleb Kruckenberg (courtesy Pacific Legal Foundation)Biden introduced the plan in August 2022 in a move that critics decried as a constitutionally dubious attempt to shore up Democrats’ fortunes ahead of the November 2022 congressional elections. While the Congressional Budget Office said the plan could cost about $400 billion, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania estimates the price tag could exceed $1...

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) of more than 4,000 people found that the risk for delayed bleeding after polypectomy was significantly reduced among persons who received a cold snare polypectomy. The findings are published in Annals of Internal Medicine. More than 16 million colonoscopies are performed annually in the U.S., and polypectomy during colonoscopy plays a pivotal role in preventing colorectal cancer. Hot snare polypectomy (HSP) has been conventionally used to remove polyps but is associated with a higher risk of delayed bleeding, post-polypectomy syndrome, or perforation. Previous research on cold snare polypectomy (CSP) demonstrated that CSP was as effective...

Post-Covid, firearm sales at the retail level soared to record levels. According to National Shooting Sports Foundation, the 2022 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) totaled 16.4 million. While NICS checks aren't related to actual firearms sales, it's a proxy for gun demand. A new monthly report from GunGenius, which uses data from Gunbroker, reveals the top-selling firearms sold online in 2022:SIG Sauer P320 semi-automatic pistolRemington 700 bolt-action rifleSig Sauer P365 pistolHere are the top-selling handguns from last year. Here are the top-selling rifles. And top top-selling shotguns. Also, the top gunmakers last year. We have covered soaring NICS...

The Twitter Files show how the FBI deputized Twitter to conduct illegal censorship of American citizens and undermine the First Amendment. ... Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last October and the subsequent reporting on the “Twitter Files” by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a handful of others beginning in early December is one of the most important news stories of our time. The “Twitter Files” story encompasses, and to a large extent connects, every major political scandal of the Trump-Biden era. Put simply, the “Twitter Files” reveal an unholy alliance between Big Tech and the deep state designed to...

Ten days ago, at their bishops’ General Synod, the Church of England voted to bless same-sex unions. Church of England priests will be permitted to bless the civil marriages of same-sex couples in a profound shift in the church’s stance on homosexuality after a historic vote by its governing body.The first blessings for gay couples could happen this summer. Individual churches will be encouraged to state clearly whether they will offer blessings to avoid confusion and disappointment.After an impassioned debate lasting more than eight hours, the C of E’s national assembly, the General Synod, voted by 250 votes to 181...

When San Francisco decided to boycott the country’s red states, they were hoping it would have an economic impact. Trouble is, it did. Just not on conservatives. For seven years, the city has stubbornly clung to its travel bans and contracting blackouts for states with sane policies on life and gender — only to find out that the side paying the biggest price is their own.In the latest sign that Republicans are winning the woke wars, city officials are quietly trying to walk back their petty payback of conservative states who’ve passed laws protecting the unborn, election integrity, girls’ sports,...

The Western world has been busily playing hide the salamis in women’s prisons, as long as said salamis claim they are actually peaches.It turns out those peaches are rather hard and sour. I know that you will be as shocked as I am to hear that all those male prisoners who discovered their femininity while in prison are not very nice people. In fact, the vast majority of them turn out to be violent predators, and quite often sex offenders.We get this shocking news courtesy of the Correctional Service of Canada, which in a fit of sanity decided that it...

It’s been quite something to watch the members of the Jan. 6 Committee melt down over House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) giving Tucker Carlson and his crew access to thousands of hours of footage of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol. The Jan. 6 witch hunters are panicking and furious that Americans might see something other than the partisan show that they put on with their Committee.I reported on the tantrums that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and former representative Adam Kinzinger (now CNN flack) threw in response. Schiff revised his Russia collusion talking points, claiming Carlson was...

After all the controversy involving the phone call President Trump made to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2020, there may actually be a crime committed after all. President Trump lined up a call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021. President Trump had bucketloads of ballot and process issues identified in the state’s 2020 Election. Raffensperger certified the uncertifiable election of 2020 in Georgia for Joe Biden giving Biden the win by 12,000 votes. However, there were up to a million potential ballot issues with hundreds of thousands of issues identified by multiple...

Unless you have been taking a social media sabbatical, you probably already know about the row between Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and the organization’s board of directors. After putting O’Keefe on suspension earlier in February, he finally decided to step down as CEO after behind-the-scenes drama came out into the open.A video showing O’Keefe reading his resignation letter in front of the organization went viral on social media. “Our mission continues on,” he said. “I’m not done. The mission will perhaps take a new name.”O’Keefe intimated that members of the board plotted his ouster behind his back, approaching Project...

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was questioned Tuesday evening while walking in Washington, D.C. by Daily Caller reporter Jennie Taer who asked him about the toxic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio. Buttigieg was walking with what appears to be his husband Chasten Buttigieg. Secretary Pete refused to answer Taer’s questions, save but one, repeatedly telling her to check out the “dozen” interviews he had already given today. When Taer persisted, Buttigieg informed her he was “taking some personal time”. He did say he was going to go to East Palestine but wouldn’t say when. Buttigieg creepily took a picture...

Tim Pool: “After this week, I’m voting for Trump. Trump’s a CEO, DeSantis is a COO” pic.twitter.com/heykOZ4Vca— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 21, 2023 ---------------------------------Tim STRIKES gold again! He really gets it.— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) February 21, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and in a video posted on Tuesday. The 37-year-old billionaire, who has been dubbed the "CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.," founded biotech company Roivant Science in 2014 and served as its CEO until 2021. That same year, he published Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam. He is the son of Indian immigrants.

China has successfully tested new “phantom space strike” technology that can trick missile defence systems by emitting fake target signals from space in a nuclear attack, it is reported. Military engineers said computer simulations of the weapon system have achieved positive results earlier this month. It has been designed so that three spacecraft blast out radio interference that tricks enemy forces into launching interception equipment in the wrong direction. Researchers worked on the idea of saturating the enemy's response by sending out decoy signals. The spacecrafts' direction, speed and formation are decided before the launch and are based on the...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — What constitutes the perfect dessert? Is it a balance of sweetness and tartness? Is it something that reminds you of childhood? Could it be all of the above? While the strawberry shortcake might be the “official dessert” of Florida, there’s no denying the true king of the “sweet life” in The Sunshine State: The Key Lime Pie. There’s a long and contested history regarding the citrus-inspired treat. Ship salvagers and Key West cooks all lay claim to the original recipe containing a filling of condensed milk, egg yolks, and key lime juice baked into a graham...

DEVELOPING: Congressional investigators have learned that Biden kept a personal diary that includes entries detailing his Beijing meetings as Veep and spans critical periods covering the removal and storage of classified papers and his meeting with Tony Bobulinki re the