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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Russians’ aggrievement and wounded pride, has died at age 75, the speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament said Wednesday. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Zhirinovsky died after “a serious and prolonged illness.” The lawmaker was hospitalized with COVID-19 on Feb. 2; in late March, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Zhirinovsky was “in serious condition.” As the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party for three decades, Zhirinovsky was infamous for making vehement statements that were neither...

Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. Russian troops, we are told, are massing at Ukraine’s borders and could attack at any time. American citizens are being advised to leave Ukraine and dependents of the American Embassy staff are being evacuated. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president has advised against panic and made clear that he does not consider a Russian invasion imminent. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has denied that he has any...

David Sassoli, the president of the European Parliament, died early Tuesday in Italy, his spokesman and the parliament’s office in Washington said. He was 65. ..... No cause of death was immediately available. But he was hospitalized with severe pneumonia during a plenary session of the Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in September. He later returned to Italy to recover, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Sassoli was hospitalized again in Italy on Dec. 26 because his immune system was not functioning normally, his spokesman, Roberto Cuillo, said on Monday on social media.

Since the original article is not in English, google translation is provided here ==== Virologist Chumakov considers omicron to be an artificial strain of coronavirus Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Chumakov: "omicron" is artificially created as a "super-attenuated" strain According to Chumakov's version, the strain was purposefully created "super-weakened". However, other virologists disagree with him, pointing out that all mutations can be explained without a theory of artificial origin. Virologist Pyotr Chumakov did not rule out the possibility that the omicron strain was artificially created. He told about his version in an interview with Radio Russia. Petr...

Repeated immunization with antigen causes systemic autoimmunity in mice otherwise not prone to spontaneous autoimmune diseases. --- Systemic autoimmunity appears to be the inevitable consequence of over-stimulating the host's immune ‘system’ by repeated immunization with antigen, to the levels that surpass system's self-organized criticality.

(Google translation) MOSCOW, December 13 - RIA Novosti. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova said that today the percentage of cases among those vaccinated against coronavirus is 3.9%, repeated cases of COVID-19 among those who have recovered - 0.74%. “They never said that the vaccine protects 100%, you can get sick, we have such facts. The percentage of cases of the total number of vaccinated is now 3.9%. , - said Golikova, speaking in the State Duma .

Pilot Deaths increased 1700%🚨 And that's only the first 9 months of 2021 over 2020! I'm sure this has nothing to do with the #covid19 #vaccine most of them were coerced into taking. Pilot Deaths: 2019: 1 2020: 6 2021: 109 (through September)

Swiss voters have backed the government's measures to tackle Covid, according to preliminary results. More than 60% opposed moves to remove some restrictions, including the Covid vaccination pass. Sunday's referendum came after organisers said the pass was an unnecessary restriction of freedoms. With just under two-thirds of the population fully vaccinated, the Swiss have one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe.

Much like the 1945 Yalta Agreement, a global sphere of influence between the United States, Russia, and China might have similar success for the entire world.

The Netherlands shattered two grim coronavirus records on Thursday. Some 16,364 people were diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 infection between Wednesday and Thursday morning, the most ever in a single day. That pushed the seven-day moving average up to 12,378, breaking the previous record of 11,788 from December 22. A combination of raw and corrected data demonstrates that 86,384 people tested positive for the infection during the past seven days, slightly lower than the average indicates. The previous record, based solely on corrected data, was 82,099.

A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker. The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the marches have not yet been disclosed. The walkouts involve people from various industries such as trucking and telecom. Air and rail transport workers are not federally allowed to go on strike due to a law passed in 1926 named the Railway Labor Act, but some plan to protest anonymously. “The Golden Gate Bridge Rally...

Europe is turning to boosters of COVID-19 vaccines as it seeks to protect citizens from the fourth coronavirus wave that is sweeping the bloc as vaccine immunity wanes. Infections are spiraling. In the last week alone, there were nearly 1.8 million cases and 24,000 deaths in the World Health Organization Europe region — accounting for 59 percent of global cases and 48 percent of deaths. This makes the region the new “epicenter” of the pandemic, warned WHO Europe boss Hans Kluge on Thursday.

The United States had the second-steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year during the pandemic, according to a study of death data spanning several continents. ....The U.S. trend was among the worst. U.S. men saw life expectancy fall by nearly 2.3 years, from about 76.7 to 74.4. Women lost more than 1.6 years of life expectancy, from about 81.8 to 80.2.

ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid ... The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled. ......But now, they’re too full. Even in parts of the country where covid isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care. ... Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.

One should see both articles for the picture. Sep 23, 2021: 99.7% of Waterford adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19Summary: celebration and usual claims that it is mostly unvaccinated that get covid now. Oct 15, 2021: Waterford City South has highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in IrelandWaterford City South currently has the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in Ireland, according to the latest figures. The number of cases in the local electoral area between September 28th and October 11th was 281. The incidence rate per 100,000 people in the area is currently 1,250 - three times the national average, and equating...

President Biden is canceling a trip to Chicago and will instead remain in Washington D.C., the White House announced on Tuesday. .....

Right now everyone is making fun of Trump's comments about disinfecting from the inside. What goes unnoticed is that he actually may be right. Just like chloroquine it is a very old med, and generally forgotten -- nonprofitable. Two differences with chloroquine are: (1) it is actually known to be safe (2) it is easy to understand why it works -- it actually kills viruses. The med is Methenamine and it goes back to 1859. Some articles call it an antibiotic -- well, if so, it is the first one! More appropriate name would be anti-infective: it kills both bacteria...

Russian army to send help to Italy after Putin's phone call Reuters Published 3:17 am Modified 3:23 am 8 A+ A- CORONAVIRUS | The Russian military will start sending medical help to Italy from Sunday in order to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Putin spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday, the Kremlin said, saying the Russian leader had offered his support and help in the form of mobile disinfection vehicles and specialists to help the worst-hit Italian regions. Italy recorded a...

One of the US’s most well-known scientists has warned that Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Early this morning Turkey invaded Syria. A contingent of 1,500 Turkish sponsored "Syrian rebels", aka Islamist from all over the world, were accompanied by some Turkish special forces and twenty tanks to capture the city Jarablus at the Turkish-Syrian border. The move followed a night of artillery warm-ups and bombing raids. Shortly after noon the "Syrian revolution" flag and the Turkish banner(!) were raised over the city. There was no resistance to the move. The Islamic State, which had been informed of the attack, had evacuated all fighters and their families out of Jarablus. (The families went to Raqqa but...