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July 22, 2020 (American Thinker) — On July 9, 2020, Asia's biggest and densest slum shocked the world by announcing just one new positive COVID-19 case despite being a cluster and hotspot. Dharavi is no ordinary slum. It is one of the densest in the world, housing more than a million people. It provided some of the background for the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Dharavi contains pockets where as many as 650,000 people are crammed into 2.5 square kilometers. In comparison, New York City has only around 95,605 people for 2.5 square kilometers. Advertisement India feared the worst when a...

Comment: The following review of the scientific literature on wearing surgical and other facemasks as a means of preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and thus preventing contraction of 'Covid-19' was published a month ago. And absent some miraculous suspension of decades of hard science on the transmission of viruses, it's settled... face mask Abstract Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and...

In December 2019, a novel pneumonia caused by a previously unknown pathogen emerged in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in central China. The initial cases were linked to exposures in a seafood market in Wuhan.1 As of January 27, 2020, the Chinese authorities reported 2835 confirmed cases in mainland China, including 81 deaths. Additionally, 19 confirmed cases were identified in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 39 imported cases were identified in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, United States, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia and Canada. The pathogen was soon identified as a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which is closely...

Video story: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-OFLsgnOU Watch the first 30 seconds, the shooter is first seen loading his weapon wearing a blue backpack. A few seconds later on the video (not actual time), the shooter and is firing, but he is wearing a black tactical vest. The sequence raises lots of questions.

The Underworld Bank scandal is oozing out all over. Conceived in Karachi, financed in Abu Dhabi, the conspiracy reached into the world's Western capitals and perhaps the U.N. under the protection of high-paid lobbyists and naive spooks. The B.C.C.I. scandal involves the laundering of drug money, the illicit financing of terrorism and of arms to Iraq, the easy purchase of respectability and the corruption of the world banking system. For more than a decade, the biggest banking swindle in history worked beautifully. Between $5 billion and $15 billion was bilked from governments and individual depositors to be put to the...

Open letter to Pope Francis re Muhammad Dear Pope Francis, There is much confusion in the world today about the holiness of Muhammad. The Church must either release its finding that support the use of the term "Holy Quran" or initiate a new inquiry that can support the this classification. Too many people question the holiness of the Quran for the church to remain silent. A strong voice from the Church has the potential to unite the world. Just imagine Christians and Muslims living in harmony. The culmination of this effort should lead to the beatification of Muhammad. After all,...

Long-Form Birth Certificate of Obama is a Forged Document A note of explanation Since this is a site of Science and technology, there is a need to explain why this site dedicates a page to expose forgery about a document related to Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. Mr. Obama is the President of the USA that is currently the leader of the Free World, and the most powerful country in the Western hemisphere. In his position as the President, the policies pursued by Mr. Obama affects the whole world and not just the USA. Because of the persisting controversy about his...

PLYMOUTH, MI, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT / NASDAQ:WPRT), the global leader in natural gas engines, is taking its first natural gas pick-up truck on a road trip across the Eastern USA this week, from May 21 to 24. Driving entirely on compressed natural gas (CNG), a team from Westport Innovations will make the 700 mile drive in the brand new Westport™ WiNG powered bi-fuel Ford F-250 Super Duty truck. During stops in Cleveland, OH; Canton, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; and Pottstown, PA; the public will have the chance to view and drive this low carbon fuel...

Early exit polling shows that Newt has a slim lead over Romney.

(Note:the HTML on the images was tricky for me - if they don't show up it is my fault)Oh do come on folks.  There's an old saying: When the facts support your position, use them.  When they don't, or when you get caught lying, throw crap at the wall and hope something sticks!The latest is the National Review which had this to say about my analysis on the birth certificate: The PDF is composed of multiple images. That’s correct. Using a photo editor or PDF viewer of your choice, you can extract this image data, view it, hide it, etc....

President Barack Hussein Obama's presidential re-election campaign will benefit from the release of the long-form birth certificate. Its release would destroy the Trump presidential candidacy before it gains further traction. As a result, insiders are thought to be considering authorizing the public release of the documents by held in Hawaii to all requestors. An easy accomplishment for his re-election team. This approach makes perfect sense, says one democratic strategist. It follows the logic of never store a threat. In this case Donald Trump is the threat, through his growing popularity, driven by the combination of his media access, and birth...

The debate rages over whether our country can afford to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Progressives argue that the ballooning Federal debt is a legacy of these tax cuts. There is one unreported flaw in this argument. As data from the IRS show, George Bush did not cut income taxes. He increased them. In fact, Bush increased income taxes not only for the rich but for at least half of all tax filers. Only the poor paid less income tax under George Bush than under Bill Clinton. WHAT? Go to the IRS website and add up the...

Your Bank Account Is Safe: Running Down The Latest Winger Health-Care Lie By Zachary Roth - August 11, 2009, 11:57AM Another day, another metastasizing lie about health-care reform that needs debunking. We've already seen the euthanasia lie -- in which conservatives, including Sarah Palin, have claimed that a provision in the bill that would extend Medicare coverage to end-of-life consultations is really aimed at letting Obama kill your grandmother. But that's old news by now. The hot new conservative health-care lie is that the bill will give the government direct access to Americans' bank accounts at any time, which, in...

We need a grassroots plan to make sure the courts properly review Obama's eligibility as soon as possible. A few lawsuits can be easily ignored, however 10,000 lawsuits cannot. The proposal: Send a clear message to the courts by the sheer number of lawsuits that the matter of eligibility cannot be taken lightly, or dismissed on technicalities. Step 1: Have an attorney post on this thread a simple process for individuals to file suit. (including sample filings.) Step 3: Individuals concerned about the eligibility of the president elect file suit Step 3: Grassroots/individual reports on progress posted to this thread...

A US marine has been acquitted of charges that he ordered a cover up of the Haditha massacre, an incident in which 24 Iraqis were killed in cold blood in 2005. Lieutenant Andrew Grayson was declared "not guilty on all charges" by a military courtmartial after his defence accused the prosecution of relying on a botched and politically motivated investigation. The military intelligence official was the sixth of eight accused to be cleared over the controversial incident. The deaths of 24 people in the central Iraqi town ranks as one of the darkest incidents since the 2003 invasion. The killings...

Democrat presidential front-runner Howard Dean took out his frustration on a voter in Iowa on Sunday by engaging in a distasteful temper tantrum before a group of his supporters. Dale Ungerer, a Republican from Hawkeye, Iowa who voted for Bush in 2000, was deeply concerned about the negative rhetoric coming from Dean in his speech, including harsh criticism of President George W. Bush on his Iraq policy and the economy. After Dean finished his speech to the audience at the Oelwein Community Center, he asked the overwhelmingly pro-Dean crowd of supporters if they had any "questions, comments or rude remarks"...

Visit the official U.S. Navy website for Guantanamo Bay and the first thing you'll see is a picture of a gigantic American flag planted firmly on Cuban soil. The picture confirms the obvious: that this forty-five square mile chunk of territory, geographically part of Cuba, is under direct and exclusive American control. The United States has occupied Guantanamo Bay for over a century. U.S. Marines first wrested control of Guantanamo from Spain in 1898, at the outset of the Spanish-American war. The American government later formalized its power over the territory via agreements signed with Cuba in 1903 and 1934,...

<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Citing unspecified reports, a U.S. senator said Friday that an American pilot missing since the 1991 Gulf War may have been seen alive and in the custody of Iraqi authorities in the past month.</p> <p>Sen. Bill Nelson mentioned the reports while releasing an unclassified summary on the fate of Capt. Scott Speicher, who was shot down over Iraq on the first night of the Gulf War and has been unaccounted for ever since. Nelson did not elaborate on the recent reports.</p>

A powerful Washington, D.C., law firm with unusually close ties to the White House has earned hefty fees representing controversial Saudi billionaires as well as a Texas-based Islamic charity fingered last week as a terrorist front. The influential law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld has represented three wealthy Saudi businessmen - Khalid bin Mahfouz, Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi and Salah Idris - who have been scrutinized by U.S. authorities for possible involvement in financing Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. In addition, Akin, Gump currently represents the largest Islamic charity in the United States, Holy Land Foundation ...

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