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Gaza - area 141 square miles, population 2,375,000. Donetsk - area 138 square miles, population 900,000. Detroit - area 143 square miles, population 630,000. Note that Donetsk is for the city, not for the metro area or the oblast. Detroit Oblast is 10,238 square miles. Note that Detroit is for the city, not for the metro area which is 3,888 square miles. Gaza may be a problem, but it is a tiny problem in comparison to Ukraine.

BANNON: We have an illegitimate regime in the White House and it was put there by members of President Trump’s administration. … Barr, Wray, the DOJ, the FBI, … History repeats itself. This happened before after a landslide victory in the early 1970s. The presidents name was Richard Nixon. The scandal was Watergate. The FBI removed a sitting president who just won a landslide victory.

It’s not that Africa is shown as being too small on the majority of world maps, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong explains below, it’s how almost every other part of the world has been artificially inflated. If we want someone to blame for this distortion, then we need look no further than the year 1569 when the cartographer Gerardus Mercator devised a solution to the problem of representing a globe on a 2D map’s surface. Mercator’s projection was revolutionary and invaluable for nautical navigation, but in the modern era, is outdated and wildly inaccurate. You can see this for yourself quite...

As the above examples show, not only there are many potential vaccines but also various approaches. And while some technologies have already provided promising results, it remains to be seen which will actually be able to defeat the virus.

With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines accelerating, people are increasingly asking which vaccine is best? Even if we tried to answer this question, defining which vaccine is "best" is not simple. Does that mean the vaccine better at protecting you from serious disease? The one that protects you from whichever variant is circulating near you? The one that needs fewer booster shots? The one for your age group? Or is it another measure entirely? Even if we could define what's "best", it's not as if you get a choice of vaccine. Until a suite of vaccines become available, the vast...

A continuation from last week’s thread. Discussion of the three Covid vaccines currently available in the USA — Comparisons. Contrasts. Pros. Cons. First hand experiences, scientific insights, etc... The current vaccines available on the market are: 1) Pfizer/BioNTech (mRNA) 2 doses 2) Moderna (mRNA) 2 doses 3) Johnson & Johnson (DNA adenovirus vector) 1 dose

Our first two vaccines have greater than 90% efficacy; Novavax reports 89.3%, Johnson and Johnson’s reports 66%. Should we care? What do those numbers mean to you and me when we worry about the protection the vaccine affords us? Quick note, the data has only been provided as a press release; the FDA documents are pending. Novavax is unlike the two current vaccines. It features a COVID-19 spike protein (the portion of the virus attaching to the cell) made by recombinant technology in insect cells. In contrast, the two mRNA vaccines use your cell's manufacturing system to make the spike...

I've had enough conversations with others about this and the sentiment is always the same. Its not just that the reported covid numbers dont make sense but how are they even possible? They aren't. They cant be. Seriously. How is it that this virus started on the other side of the planet 5 months ago and this country had its first case 3 months ago and now we have 10 times more cases then where it started??? There was a thought that since the virus can survive for what...a week...that it came over on Chinese imported goods. But that sounds...

CROYDON, N.H. (AP) — Joe Biden pondered a most serious, and awkward, question at a campaign stop Friday: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated during his presidential campaign in 2008?

I have followed China’s development, its stunning advance in forty years from impoverished Third World to a huge economy, its rapid scientific progress. Coming from nowhere it now runs neck and neck with the US in supercomputes, does world-class work in genetic engineering and genomics (the Beijing Genomics Institutes), quantum computing and quantum radar, in scientific publications. It lags in many things, but the speed of advance, the intense focus on progess, is remarkable.Recently, after twelve years away, I returned for a couple of weeks to Chungdu and Chong Quing, which I found amazing. American patriots of the lightly read...

Is America a better place today than it was back in 1956? Of course many Americans living right now couldn’t even imagine a world without cell phones, Facebook or cable television, but was life really so bad back then? 60 years ago, families would actually spend time on their front porches and people would actually have dinner with their neighbors. 60 years ago, cars were still cars, football was still football and it still meant something to be an American. In our country today, it is considered odd to greet someone as they are walking down the street, and if...

Former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges was uninvited from speaking at a University of Pennsylvania conference following the publication of an incendiary column. That column, from December 15, closely compares Israel to the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization. Hedges, who now works as a columnist for Truthdig.com, was scheduled to speak April 3 at a forum on prospects for peace in the Middle East sponsored by the Philadelphia university's International Affairs Association. Zachary Michael Belnavis, a student leader of the association, complained to the lecture agency that his group felt Hedges was not a "suitable fit"...

Some time ago there was an article that compared our debt to the total assets of the rich. It wrote that if everything of the rich were seized by the Feds and the war debt was zero, the Democrats would still have us in the hole. After thirty minutes of surfing, I hope a FRiend has the information at the ready. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Hannity Does Devastating Side-By-Side Comparison Of Obama's Two Race Speeches

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Muslim rights group criticized a federal judge on Wednesday, complaining he had compared the civil liberties of Muslim Americans to a "hideous sea monster" while tossing out a lawsuit over the infiltration of California mosques by an FBI informant. U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney dismissed the lawsuit on Tuesday, which charged that the undercover FBI informant had violated civil liberties of U.S. Muslims by spying on them, ruling that allowing the case to proceed could risk disclosure of government secrets. In his 36-page order, Carney invoked the fictional Greek hero Odysseus, who was forced to...

This email came my way and I am posting it for a weekend change of pace from the fabricated news dumps. It brings a lot of thoughts to mind, especially in view of the headline incident in Afghanistan two weeks ago. GOD BLESS our men and women in service.