Monthly Archives: August 2021

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Can isometric resistance training safely reduce high blood pressure?

Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated – sources

US general tells British special forces: Stop rescuing people in Kabul, you’re making us look bad

As Eviction Moratorium Case Returns to SCOTUS, Landlords Use Biden’s Words Against Him

The Entirely Predictable Failure of the West’s Mission in Afghanistan

The Covid vaccines may affect periods. Are we allowed to talk about this?

A May 1 decision by the CDC to only track breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death has left the nation with a muddled understanding of COVID-19’s impact on the vaccinated.

Biden’s no-jab-no-job order creates quandary for nursing homes

US considers ordering commercial airlines to help in Afghan evacuation

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Massive Nurse Shortage Hits Houston—Weeks After 150 Unvaccinated Nurses and Hospital Workers Fired

COVID19 mini-update, August 20, 2021:

“Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”

What’s Wrong With Joe? Biden Calls a Lid on Public Appearances—Indefinitely

NATO Special Operators Now Exfiltrate People Directly from Kabul

CNN’s Ward: Getting inside the Kabul airport “one of the more harrowing things I have experienced”

The Scary Reason Why China Might Want More Nuclear Weapons

Not only did Presidentish Joe Biden leave UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the dark over “how it planned to withdraw [and] the pace of its withdrawal” from Afghanistan, Biden basically ghosted Johnson for 36 hours as the crisis unfolded in Kabul.

S.Korea to grant legal status to animals to tackle abuse, abandonment

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What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

I thought gender was a social construct. Why sports concussions are worse for women

U.S. forces can’t help Americans flee to Kabul airport, Pentagon chief says

Masks redux

Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

Seattle Hospital to Heart Transplant Patient: Get a Covid Shot or Drop Dead

Windows 11 Is Making It Absurdly Difficult to Change Browsers

MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own

The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.

Survey: 1 in 5 medical researchers reports pressure from funders to change study results

Something Is Wrong with the President

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Stewing Conflict Between German High Court and the EU Could Boil Over

China threatens Taiwan, saying Afghanistan withdrawal proves US ‘won’t help’ if war breaks out

Iran ramps up uranium enrichment as nuclear talks stall

Afghans are racing to erase their online lives

George Mason University Caves In Lawsuit, Grants Law Prof Todd Zywicki Medical Exemption To Vaccine Mandate

After fall of Kabul, resistance to Taliban emerges in Panjshir

This is What a Whole of Government Epistemic Failure Looks Like

As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all

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Ever wonder how they decided how much vitamin C you need? New analysis of landmark scurvy study leads to update on vitamin C needs

COVID: Why are infections rising in Israel?

Lumber Prices

Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done?

Biden Admin Admits It Does Not Know How Many Americans Are Trapped In Afghanistan, Could Be 10,000

Skull-Stomping Sacred Cows: Afghanistan

Pentagon rushes more reinforcements to Kabul airport as panic disrupts evacuations

This Video of Afghans Desperately Clinging to a US Plane Is Horrifying. We’ll All Forget About It Soon Enough.

Haiti: Death toll from weekend earthquake nears 2,000

How Belarus Is Funneling Refugees into the EU

When given the choice between a free meal and performing a task for a meal, cats would prefer the meal that doesn’t require much effort. While that might not come as a surprise to some cat lovers, it does to cat behaviorists. Most animals prefer to work for their food — a behavior called contrafreeloading.

Archaeologists Claim They’ve Discovered the Trojan Horse in Turkey

‘New York vaccine mandate could destroy my restaurant’

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De Blasio’s plan to give a grand a month to violent offenders is insane

You can read the article without having to watch the video. Video shows desperate Afghans trying to escape country by jumping on air-bound US planes, falling from hundreds of feet: ‘No words can describe these scenes’

More than one in ten COVID-19 patients infected in hospital in first pandemic wave

The Taliban Air Force – An Inventory Assessment

The Great Barrier Reef Is Doing Well, Despite What the Alarmists Have Said

The bitterness of those who fought.

Gamers in China respond to curbs

Is Lebanon on the Verge of a Military Coup?

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American Medical Association, Descending Into Wokeness, Calls for Eliminating Sex on Birth Certificates

The Co-Founder Of Snopes Wrote Dozens Of Plagiarized Articles For The Fact-Checking Site

Australia: New South Wales ‘in worst ever Covid situation’

‘No beds anywhere’: As COVID wards expand, Louisiana’s small hospitals have nowhere to turn

Taliban Take the Presidential Palace

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American B-52H bombers are understood to be conducting an attack on the largest Afghan air force base in order to destroy the aircraft based there.

Taliban encircling Afghan capital Kabul, prepping final assault through east

Portland Looks Like Shit. Who’s to Blame? What Can be Done?

The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs

Haiti earthquake death toll surpasses 300

Zillow, Other Tech Firms Are in an ‘Arms Race’ To Buy Up American Homes

Will Hillary Clinton run for NY governor? Expert weighs in amid Cuomo scandal