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Dr. Vladimir Zelenko went for an urgent blood-clot removal surgery two years ago and wound up losing his entire right lung. The surgeons found it riddled with a rare and aggressive cancer — pulmonary artery sarcoma. Without highly toxic chemotherapy to prevent its return, his doctor told him, the disease would likely kill him.Zelenko was then an unknown family practitioner, treating mostly Hasidic patients in a clinic in upstate New York, not yet the controversial promoter of an unproven drug he has called the “cure” for Covid-19 — the man whose urging apparently contributed to President Trump’s surprising decision...

The surgery to put in the electrodes was successful. It's kind of weird because when they put them you don't feel a thing until they turn on the voltage which would cause my eyes to cross and my mouth to pull to the side and all I could say was "Gaa!" It took quite a while to get them in just the right but I am doing fine and when they got to the right place, my tremors went away completely. I didn't sleep well last night so the first thing I did today was take a well-deserved nap.

It is not often that people appreciate being quarantined for 21 days. But the time I spent in quarantine on my return home on April 21 was a good time to reflect. I would like to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our Bodhisattva Dharma King for his selfless love and caring, our government for providing such good facilities in the quarantine, and all the frontline service staffs, healthcare workers and Desuups for their selfless service. The atmosphere at the quarantine centre, Centre Point Hotel, Paro, is no different from the peaceful meditation retreats that we have...

Buoyed by a letter from the U.S. Justice Department to Gov. Gavin Newsom that emphasizes the right to worship, a lawyer for a church suing over California’s coronavirus ban on in-person services says he expects thousands of congregations to return to their churches a week from Sunday. The move comes as the fight over whether the state has the right to prohibit church services for now has moved to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where a Lodi church is seeking an emergency injunction against the ban, and as hundreds of pastors have signed a petition declaring that their...

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – The Jackson Township governing body, including Mayor Michael Reina and other members of the Jackson Township Council and Jackson Township Planning Board were served today with a federal lawsuit, signed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr. In recent months, two members of the council have resigned over the impending suit. Barry Calogero, a Trump administration appointee with the U.S.D.A and Robert Nixon, a New Jersey State Police PBA lobbyist. Both Calogero and Nixon resigned their duties as elected officials in recent months ahead of the DOJ lawsuit. A release was issued by the Department of Justice:...

Rev. Al Sharpton is reminding black voters in South Carolina that civil rights leaders faced the same political flak for being alleged socialists that Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, faces today. Sharpton, who hosted a half-dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls Wednesday morning at a ministers’ breakfast sponsored by his National Action Network, made his observation before introducing Sanders.Noting that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was also criticized as a socialist while fighting for voting rights and other critical issues to the black community, Sharpton urged attendees to research that history. …

Three years ago I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and through a year long process, I have been approved for Deep Brain Stimulation. I have 3 procedures to go through. The firs was on May 5 and I did fine. The second part is tomorrow, May 20, where they use the jig drill to holes in my skull to place the electrodes. I will be fully awake during this part to make sure the probes are placed correctly. There are some pretty cool videos on youtube that show how dramatic the change in tremors is. The third procedure on May...

Hydroxychloroquine was previously prescribed only for people whose lupus disease activity was mild in its course; if the lupus became active, steroids or immunosuppressants would be prescribed instead. Today, however, HCQ is recommended for most individuals with lupus, whether mild, moderate, or severe, as well as during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Given the drug’s many and varied beneficial effects and its excellent long-standing safety profile, most rheumatologists believe that hydroxychloroquine should be taken by people with lupus throughout their lifetime. Annual examinations with a qualified retina specialist are strongly encouraged, however.

Press Room - Press Releases and Statements NEW YORK -- The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan. This plan will build on the successes of current work to achieve key milestones in the discovery, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines to the most vulnerable populations in the poorest countries over the next decade. The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates...

Atheists in Praise of Christianity? If the West had not become Christian, historian Tom Holland writes, “no one would have gotten woke.” Historian Tom Holland is known primarily as a storyteller of the ancient world. Thus, his new book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, came as something of a surprise for several reasons. First, Tom Holland is not a Christian. Second, Holland’s book is one of the most ambitious historical defenses of Christianity in a very long time.While studying the ancient world, Holland writes, he realized something. Simply, the ancients were cruel, and their values utterly foreign...

Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley You are being gaslit, but not by a sociopathic manipulator. Instead, the growing psychic pressure is the constricting consensus of an increasingly popular fabricated reality. You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.

Does COVID-19 truly warrant a nationwide shutdown? No, and that has been made increasingly clear. The predicted dire need for hospital beds did not materialize, while most infected are among those who are quarantined, especially elder care facilities which account for over 40% of deaths. Up to about 80 percent of those infected with COVID-19 are estimated to be silent carriers, [1] meaning they show no symptoms (the New York City labor and delivery unit found 88 percent of infected patients had no symptoms, [2] while over 600 sailors on the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt tested positive, yet 60%...

I Won't Accept Anything For My Soul by the Dixon Brothers (1937) is our gospel tune today. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

The following three media events are being made available FREE through Revelation Media (Note the first two are on the same link): THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE (This 50th anniversary edition featuring Pat Boone has been completely remastered in 4K)AND TORTURED FOR CHRIST AND ALSO PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

Getting married had been part of the plan the high school seniors concocted on the couch during hours-long, deep conversations. Sadie would go to IUPUI for college to continue her elite diving career. Chase, once a nationally-ranked swimmer, would be by her side, hopefully in the water, too. They would marry after college. An amazing life would unfold. But in March, it happened again.

The audiobook version of John Piper's new book "Coronavirus and Christ" has been removed by YouTube for "violating community standards" roughly five weeks after it was published on the platform. The latest work by prolific author, speaker, and theologian Piper, "Coronavirus and Christ" was released for free on April 8, offering "six biblical answers to the question, What is God doing through the coronavirus?—reminding us that God is at work in this moment in history." Visitors to the YouTube upload of Piper reading the audio version of the book are now met with this black screen:

Reason #7: RELIGION Saint Augustine in his Confessions tells us that after many years of wandering in the desert of indecision, it was Cicero who led him to Christ. Cicero’s Hortensius set him on the path to Christian conversion by implanting in him a longing for the immortality of wisdom. The text of Hortensius did not make it to the modern world and thus is probably the most famous lost treatise in world literature. Wouldn’t we all love to read this work that St. Augustine praises so highly? Well, I have read a lot of Cicero and, like most writers,...

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A CONTROVERSIAL blogger has sparked outrage after saying women who wear thong bikinis "entice old men" and that it's their own fault they get perved on. American mum-of-four Lori Alexander, who blogs under the name The Transformed Wife, took to Facebook to share her view on the topic and insists that public swimming areas such as beaches, lakes, and pools are no longer safe places for kids as "there is way too much immodesty and nudity". In the outspoken post, the religious stay-at-home mum asked that young women not wear thong bikinis as they "look naked" from the back -...

A man accused of setting a fire that destroyed an Islamic center in southeast Missouri has been charged with a federal hate crime, the U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis said Tuesday. A federal grand jury indicted 42-year-old Nicholas J. Proffitt in the April fire that destroyed the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center, the office said in a statement. Proffitt is charged with damaging religious property because of the property’s religious character, using fire to commit a federal felony, and damaging a building used in interstate commerce through use of fire. […] A Muslim advocacy group, which had called for a...