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Tea consumption offers protective effects on mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study. Jin Li, Ph.D. and colleagues examined the long-term impact of tea consumption among 17,575 patients with CKD from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 1999 to 2018. The researchers found there were 5,835 deaths during follow-up, including 1,823 cardiovascular-related deaths. Compared with never drinking tea, consuming up to four cups of tea per day was significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality among patients with CKD stage 1 to 2 (hazard ratio, 0.89; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.80 to 0.99; P...

Late on Friday afternoon, people slowly gather at Freedom Square in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, to protest against the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico. This isn't the first rally of its kind being held in Bratislava. The latest series of protests began on December 23, a day after the prime minister's surprise trip to Russia, and have been held at regular intervals ever since. The protesters here agree on one thing: Slovakia does not belong to Russia. And many feel that Fico's pre-Christmas meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow was an act of treason. Fighting for...

A glass of milk a day could help keep bowel cancer away finds a study. The research suggests that increasing daily milk intake by as little as one glass could have a significant impact on lowering the likelihood of developing bowel cancer. The study found that drinking an additional 20g of alcohol a day, equivalent to a large glass of wine, increased bowel cancer risk by 15%. Consuming more than 30g of red and processed meat daily was linked to an 8% increase in bowel cancer risk. Researchers took a two-pronged approach to examine the association between milk consumption and...

Remember when Tucker described the Democrat party as the party for weak men and unhappy women? This guy nails it perfectly! LOL! (No offense to short dudes...some of whom are real men including one of my best friends who spent 12 years in the Marine Corps and is solidly Republican)

Special Dispatches to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 24. THE PEACE QUESTION -- ITS TRUE ASPECT. Speculation concerning the Blair mission to Richmond has almost wholly ceased. It is generally understood now that Mr. BLAIR did not go to Richmond in any sense as the representative of the Government, and that he is not authorized to encourage the hope that any overtures for peace will be made or accepted which look, however remotely, toward a division of the Union. Nor is it believed in any quarter that the rebel authorities are yet prepared to treat for a termination of...

President Trump fired 17 Inspectors General in a Friday night purge to punctuate the end of his first week in office. And what a week it was! President Trump is accused of accomplishing more good for the country in his first five days than Joe Biden and his handlers did in four years. Real Clear Politics reporter Susan Crabtree explained that many of these IGs, who are in a position to identify and clean up waste and abuse, have long histories of whitewashing reports and playing politics. President Trump kept current Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari...

President Trump Signs Executive Order To Ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). As I have been warning and appeared in the movie CBDC, the End of Money, that it would have been unconstitutional for the Federal Reserve to create a CBDC, and my sources had confirmed that the Fed would not make a CBDC. This is important that chalks one up for the people – retaining our freedom. This means that there will be no digital dollar and the end of Kaus Schwab’s dream of you will own nothing and be happy. A CBDC was to be programmable where the...

U.S. — The Babylon Bee would like to publicly thank President Donald Trump for making good on his promise to get rid of all those DEI rules, allowing us to take immediate action and fire our only female writer. We were sick of her not being funny but needed a good reason to get rid of her without having all those DEI employment people breathing down our necks. The office is going to go back to what it was intended to be in the first place: a gentleman's club full of fine cigars, strong beer, darts, a billiards table, and...

'This is the consequence of recent news about sex parties in Hollywood.' Another escort agency boss revealed the most popular sex act requested by 'untouchable', powerful clients. 'Anal sex is actually one of the most frequently requested things,' says Susann from the Swiss Escort Avantgarde agency. The secret depravity of the global elite coming to the World Economic Forum in Davos has been laid bare, with escort agencies revealing that the demand for sex parties, NDAs for prostitutes and transsexual women has increased. The forum, which started on Monday, has welcomed more than 3,000 business and political leaders to the...

While Democrats didn’t rig the presidential race this time around, the narrow congressional majority probably means that down-ballot races were still manipulated...something Democrats can and will do again. ... The problem with over-confidence based on Trump’s historic 2024 electoral victory is we may lose the urgency to remove the cryptographic algorithms embedded in the SBOE voter registration files. That would leave us unprepared for a possible Democrat party decision to use the algorithms to steal majorities in both the House and Senate in the 2026 mid-term elections and retake the presidency in 2028.

Donald Trump has warned Russian President Vladamir Putin to end the war effort in Ukraine or face US sanctions. “If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries,” Trump said pm Truth Social. Are tariffs enough to force Putin to withdraw from Ukraine? Russia exported $2.9 billion in goods from January to November 2024, down from the $4.3 billion the year prior. Russia’s main exports to the US is refined petroleum,...

Round table discussion of current events including: - Trump speech to WEF - Chinese infiltration - Drug Cartels - Intelligence - Modern communication - H1B immiogration And much more.

“If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck.” This is wise counsel whenever the media and “experts” insist that you not believe your lying eyes. Take this ongoing issue where men who perfectly fit the profile of “radical Muslims,” engage in the usual acts of Islamic terrorism, only for the “authorities” to tell us not to be “hasty” and jump to conclusions.

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath . @POTUS is right. Snowmelt from the Sierra Nevadas and rainfall sent almost 30 million cubic acres of water into the Sacramento River Delta over the past 15 months. Of this, only 23% was sent to productive use in farmland irrigation and homes. A staggering 77% was sent to the ocean. The multiyear "drought" affecting most of California is man-made. California under @GavinNewsom is full of some of the dumbest, destructive policies imaginable.

A few of many “science quotes on God”"according to many physicists, the fact that the universe is able to support life depends delicately on various of its fundamental characteristics, notably on the form of the laws of nature, on the values of some constants of nature, and on aspects of the universe’s conditions in its very early stages." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/ A listing of such follows.“I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is...

CBN.com – “I was searching for truth, the meaning of life. There’s something missing in my life. I didn’t know what it was.” Cyril Gordon embarked on a spiritual journey to fill that void. “It vacillated at that time in my life, in my late teens," Cyril tells The 700 Club. "Dabbling in existentialism, which says there’s no God. Also got drawn into eastern religion and philosophy, Zen, Daoism, Buddhism, even shaved my head back then, got into the Timothy Leary thing of taking hallucinogenics to find the truth.” Cyril was Jewish, but had strayed far away from the path...

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” a Daily Signal original, Hanson discusses the initial days of the Trump administration and the backlash from the Left. He compares the costs associated with corrective measures to those of the policies originally enacted by the Left.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s (D) relationship with President Trump is alarming Democrats, who question the embattled mayor’s motives amid his ongoing legal challenges. Adams sat down with Trump for a meeting days before the president was sworn in and caught attention for a last-minute cancellation of his schedule to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Adams has argued the importance of having a relationship with Trump as mayor of the country’s largest city for the benefit of his constituents. But this also comes as Adams, who is up for reelection in November, faces the start of a bribery trial...

Biden’s many pardons fifteen minutes before leaving office are telling. His pardons are for criminals beyond the pale, including his own son, Hunter, but perhaps none is as upsetting as the pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci. Senator Rand Paul has voiced what many of us feel viscerally about Fauci. The Kentucky senator recently stated that any potential pardon for Fauci won’t protect him from the “harsh judgment” of history, the public, and, potentially, future legal ramifications.

The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access is not allowed. In a decree issued last month by the Holy See, the monetary sanctions and prison sentences for those who violate the strict security regulations of Vatican City have been considerably increased. The document, signed by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, provides for monetary fines ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 euros (about $10,200 to $25,700) and prison sentences ranging from one to four years. These fines will apply especially...