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Romania's most famous football team, Steaua Bucharest, announce a ban on VACCINATED players, because their madcap owner says that athletes 'lose strength' - and claims those that are jabbed die in hospitals

Out of all works of fiction published in the year 2020, The Nesting Dolls by Odessa-born Alina Adams is easily the most urgent. It dramatized what American readers, especially young American readers, need to understand about the life under socialism, but are rarely told. If discussions about the reality of it do take place, the truth is quickly swept under the rug — real socialism hasn’t been tried, they are assured.

Today is Christmas. It is, though, a very different sort of Christmas. Nine months after the world spun off of its axis and the COVID Internment of America (and much of the world) began, Doctor-In-Chief Anthony Fauci has made his pronouncement as to how Americans are to celebrate this holiday. In a word, they aren’t. Fauci the Infallible, the ever-unimpeachable Fauci, the Good Doctor par excellence has spoken.

A tiny moon has been caught floating in front of Uranus for the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope reveals. The moon's shadow can also be seen on the planet's cloud tops, creating a solar eclipse on Uranus itself. Hubble imaged the event unexpectedly in July 2006, during a set of observations meant to study the planet's clouds. "When we first got this image back, we looked at it and said, 'What's that bright spot and that dark spot?'" says team member Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US. "We thought, it must be a problem...

GW PROFESSOR JAMES M. CLARK LEADS DISCOVERY OF THE OLDEST-KNOWN CERATOPSIAN, AN ANCESTOR OF TRICERATOPS AND OTHER HORNED DINOSAURS New Find is Evolutionary Link Between Ceratopsians and Pachycephalosaurs, the "Bone-Headed" Dinosaurs WASHINGTON -- James M. Clark, Ronald B. Weintraub Associate Professor of Biology at The George Washington University, and Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, have discovered the oldest-known ceratopsian, a finding that solidifies the close evolutionary evidence between ceratopsians and pachycephalosarians, the "bone-headed" dinosaurs. Roaming the earth 160 million years ago, the new basal ceratopsian dinosaur, Yinlong downsi, appeared 20 million years...

Call for Muslim Scientists Join the Scientific Dissent From DarwinismBy Mustafa Akyol "[An] 'ism' of great danger to Islam... is Darwinism," said Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the leading Muslim thinkers of our time, in his book Islam and the Plight of Modern Man. He is certainly right. Darwinism is indeed a dangerous idea, and the reason for that is its seemingly scientific affirmation of the naturalist philosophy — the belief that nature is all there is and that life on Earth, including humans, is the product of the blind forces of nature. If one accepts that philosophy, then one...

LIBERTY, Mo. — Monday morning, Room 207: First day of a unit on the origins of life. Veteran biology teacher Al Frisby switches on the overhead projector and braces himself. As his students rummage for their notebooks, Frisby introduces his central theme: Every creature on Earth has been shaped by random mutation and natural selection — in a word, by evolution. The challenges begin at once. "Isn't it true that mutations only make an animal weaker?" sophomore Chris Willett ....Frisby tries to explain that evolution takes millions of years, but Willett isn't listening. "I feel a tail growing!" he calls...

A bone splinter forms the eyes A flint object with a striking likeness to a human face may be one of the best examples of art by Neanderthal man ever found, the journal Antiquity reports. The "mask", which is dated to be about 35,000 years old, was recovered on the banks of the Loire in France. It is about 10 cm tall and wide and has a bone splinter rammed through a hole, making the rock look as if it has eyes. Commentators say the object shows the Neanderthals were more sophisticated than their caveman image suggests. "It should...

The site describes itself as: A selection of cartoons from the media of seven Arab countries (Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Syria and Egypt) and from the Palestinian Authority is displayed below. A number of these countries are regarded as moderate or allied to the West. Most print media in the Arab world are under the full or partial control of the ruling regimes. One picture can sometimes be deadlier than a thousand words. -- Tom Gross

Researchers have found stronger evidence for a link between a parasite in cat faeces and undercooked meat and an increased risk of schizophrenia. Research published today in Procedings of the Royal Society B, shows how the invasion or replication of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in rats may be inhibited by using anti-psychotic or mood stabilising drugs. The researchers tested anti-psychotic and mood stabilising medications used for the treatment of schizophrenia on rats infected with T. gondii and found they were as, or more, effective at preventing behaviourial alterations as anti-T. gondii drugs. This led them to believe that T. gondii...

A lost bet and a sweet tooth led to the announcement this week of a new mammal named after a chocolate brand. Dubbed Kryoryctes cadburyi — as in Cadbury chocolate — the dinosaur-era mammal was roughly the size of a large cat, covered with quills, and toothless. A distant relative of today's spiny anteater, the species lived about 106 million years ago alongside dinosaurs in what is now Australia. The tale of how the low-slung creature came to be named after a candy company, however, begins about ten years ago in a rocky cove some 140 miles (220 kilometers) southwest...

Johannes Kepler changed forever our understanding of the universe. Through his efforts to chart the orbits of the planets—elliptical, not circular—Kepler became one of the most important astronomers of all time. His contributions continued as he laid the groundwork for the discovery of gravitation, setting physics on the course of revelation it follows to this day. Yet if it hadn't been for the now lesser known Tycho Brahe, the Royal Court Mathematician at Prague, the man for whom Kepler worked, Kepler would be a mere footnote in today's science books. Brahe was the foremost astronomer of his era and one...

----- Original Message ----- From: Brady E-Action Response Network Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:34 PM Subject: Join Us for the Premier of Bowling of Columbine Issue: 74 - Tuesday, October 08, 2002 Please join the Brady Campaign and Alliance for Justice sponsor the star studded DC premier of Michael Moore's new internationally acclaimed movie: Bowling for Columbine >From the director of "Rodger and Me," comes an alternately humorous and horrifying documentary about firearms abuse in the United States. During a time when gun violence has shaken our community and threatened the security of our neighborhoods this documentary begins to...

After the shootings, grief counselors arrived on the scene to enact their prescribed drill: running compulsory group sessions designed to elicit expressions of woe. The theory on which grief counselors operate holds that, after some catastrophe, the emotions of pain and fear must immediately be vented, lest they fester in the psyche. The theory is questionable -- people grieve in different ways, and at different rates -- as is the notion that professional counselors provide the only means of release: Human society developed mourning rituals long before the first Master of Social work degree was awarded. Death is tough enough ...