WORLD NEWS
Missiles Hit Area Near Ukraine’s Lviv Airport
Missiles have hit near Ukraine’s Lviv airport on the morning of March 18.
In a statement, the city’s Mayor Andriy Sadovyi attributed the missiles to Russians.
“Some Russian rockets hit on the aircraft repair plant,” he said. “The building was destroyed because of the hits. Active work on the plant was previously stopped, so there are no casualties.”
The Ukraine Air Defense West said in a statement, “According to preliminary data, 6 winged missiles, probably X-555, were launched from the Black Sea aquarium. Two of the missiles were intercepted. The missiles hit in the area of Lviv airport.”
An adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Vadym Denysenko, said that explosions were seen in Lviv at about 6:30 local time, stating that there was “smoke on the outskirts of Lviv” and that “fire is visible.”
Officials had arrived at the scene to assess the situation, Denysenko added.
The Epoch Times’s reporters on the ground in Lviv said it appeared as though some Russian rockets had hit on the aircraft repair plant, adding that the building was destroyed because of the hits.
The Chinese regime sided with Russia in another U.N. vote on March 16, when the two nations dissented against a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Moscow to “immediately suspend” its military operations in Ukraine.
Ukraine filed a suit against Russia at the ICJ, the highest legal body of the United Nations, on Feb. 26, arguing that Moscow had violated the 1948 Genocide Convention when it wrongfully justified its military actions as preventing genocide in Luhansk and Donetsk.
The court’s decision (pdf) ruled that Ukraine “has a plausible right not to be subjected to military operations by the Russian Federation for the purpose of preventing and punishing an alleged genocide in the territory of Ukraine.”
“The ‘special military operation’ being conducted by the Russian Federation has resulted in numerous civilian deaths and injuries. It has also caused significant material damage, including the destruction of buildings and infrastructure,” according to the court judgment.
In a 13-2 vote, the court ordered Russia to “immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022.” Russia’s Kirill Gevorgian and China’s Xue Hanqin voted against the decision.
Ukraine’s Corn Harvest May Plunge By A Third, Estimates Show
Black Sea research firm SovEcon reports that Ukraine, one of the world’s top grains exporters, will experience dramatic output declines in the 2022 harvest year due to the Russian invasion.
Ukraine’s main agricultural export products are corn and wheat. Before the invasion, Ukraine was the second-largest supplier of grains for the European Union and one of the largest suppliers for emerging markets in Asia and Africa. Breaking down the numbers, Ukraine produced 49.6% of global sunflower oil, 10% of global wheat, 12.6% of global barley, and 15.3% of global maize.
SovEcon expects Ukraine’s 2022 corn harvest to plunge 35% from 41.9 million tons last year to 27.7 million tons this year. This year’s estimated wheat harvest has been cut to 26 million tons from an earlier outlook of 28.3 million tons, compared with 32.1 million tons last year.
SovEcon, which specializes in agricultural markets, said the regions affected by conflict account for 40% of the country’s corn and wheat production. They said plantings and yields would be impacted by fuel shortages, lack of workers and fertilizer, and fieldwork challenges due to the conflict. Also, a weather component of drought could affect wheat-producing areas.
However, the research firm says estimates are based on Russia reaching a ceasefire deal with Ukraine, allowing farmers to begin fieldwork in April as spring is around the corner.
UK Scraps All Remaining CCP Virus Travel Restrictions
All remaining CCP virus travel restrictions for people arriving in the UK have been removed, in a move hailed by tourism companies as the “final game-changer” for the industry.
U.S. NEWS, POLITIC & GOVERNMENT
Joe Biden is considering sending U.S.-made kamikaze ‘Switchblade’ drones to Ukraine as part of a $1 billion defense package aimed at answering President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pleas for help.
The small, lightweight and comparatively cheap ‘kamikaze’ weapons, which are effectively remote-controlled bombs, come in two versions which have been designed to take out tanks or artillery positions.
They are believed to be the same missiles that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani under Donald Trump’s administration in 2020.
Judge Relents, Allows Jan. 6 Defendant to Plead Guilty
A federal judge on March 17 allowed a Jan. 6 defendant to plead guilty to a single charge after initially resisting the move during a recent hearing.
U.S. District Judge Randy Moss, an Obama appointee, repeatedly asked Lucas Denney, if he was aware of his rights and if he wanted to proceed with pleading guilty to assaulting an officer at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prosecutors violated the law by waiting months to file charges against Denney and only recently filed a one-count indictment despite initially having the Texas man arrested on additional charges.
One of Denney’s lawyers, William Shipley, moved at a hearing Monday for a guilty plea in part because he believes doing so would preclude the filing of more charges but Moss rejected him, surprised by the effort.
During Thursday’s hearing, the judge was particularly focused on telling Denney that pleading guilty to one charge didn’t mean he wouldn’t face more charges in the future.
“I just want to make sure you understand that it’s possible that the government is going to bring other charges against you,” Moss said, noting that there was no plea bargain in place.
Denney said he did not, and consulted with his lawyers for about 20 minutes before returning and saying he wanted to plead guilty.
“I talked to Mr. Denney about some of these issues,” Shipley said after the break. He noted that appeals courts have split on whether double jeopardy would block any future charges concerning Denney’s conduct on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors said they have not made a decision on pursuing additional charges.
Federal Judge Dismisses Felony Obstruction Charge in Second Jan. 6 Case in 8 Days
For the second time in eight days, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols has dismissed a felony obstruction charge alleging that a Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach defendant tried to prevent the certification of Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential race.
Nichols ruled in the case of United States v. Joseph W. Fischer that the statute used by prosecutors—18 U.S.C. SS 1512(c)(2)—doesn’t apply to the allegations against Fischer.
The 1512 subsection of the U.S. Code is meant to prevent tampering or destruction of documents and records, and not alleged attempts to derail certification of the presidential election results, according to Nichols.
“Nothing in Count Three (or the superseding indictment generally) alleges, let alone implies, that Fischer took some action with respect to a document, record, or other object in order to corruptly obstruct, impede or influence Congress’s certification of the electoral vote,” Nichols wrote in a 10-page ruling. “The Court will therefore grant Fischer’s motion to dismiss Count Three.”
Nichols threw out the same charge on March 7 in the case of Garret A. Miller, 35, of Richardson, Texas. Miller faces 11 other Jan. 6, 2021-related charges.
Democratic Party activists in Wisconsin have filed a suit in federal court arguing that a pro-Trump senator and two pro-Trump congressmen should be barred from office for speaking out on 2020 election irregularities and allegedly attempting to manipulate the congressional certification of the presidential election results.
The Wisconsin Republican lawmakers targeted by the suit are two-term Sen. Ron Johnson, two-term Rep. Tom Tiffany, and freshman Rep. Scott Fitzgerald. All are seeking reelection in November.
The suit claims the lawmakers cannot serve in Congress because the disqualification clause in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment forbids it. That rarely invoked constitutional provision was enacted in the wake of the Civil War to keep former Confederates out of Congress.
Johnson dismissed the lawsuit, telling The Epoch Times it is “total nonsense.”
“Democrats have ignored the Summer 2020 riots and relentlessly used January 6th [2021] as a political cudgel,” Johnson said in an emailed statement. “Now, they’ve used January 6th to file a frivolous lawsuit against me, similar to the one dismissed by a court last week.”
The lawsuit claims the lawmakers “used their public positions of authority to illegally foment an atmosphere meant to intimidate and pressure Vice President [Mike] Pence and Congress to take actions inconsistent with the facts and with their duties under the Electoral Count Act and the U.S. Constitution.”
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Rejects Calls to Decertify 2020 Election
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has said that he doesn’t believe that decertifying the 2020 election would be legally possible.
Vos, a Republican, met with GOP activists at the state Capitol on March 16 who are seeking to decertify the 2020 election in the state before he rejected calls to decertify.
“I still believe that the Constitution and my oath that I took as an elected official does not allow me to decertify any election whether I want to or not,” Vos told reporters in Madison. “That’s not going to happen.”
Vos also said there “are some people who think that the Legislature has a unilateral ability to overturn the election.”
“We do not,” he said.
“I think there was widespread fraud, and I think we are going to see more and more data that comes out” following an investigation headed by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, Vos said. In 2021, the speaker tapped Gableman as a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin.
However, some Wisconsin Republicans say they believe Vos is incorrect in his assessment.
”This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, and I think some of the people inside that are accountable are in that room right now,” state Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican, told NBC15. “I think those people don’t want to see closure on this. That’s why they’re dragging us all along.”
Biden SCOTUS Pick Has ‘Alarming Pattern’ of Leniency Toward Child Sex Offenders: Hawley
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, has “an alarming pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes,” according to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).
“I’ve been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews, and speeches,” Hawley wrote in a March 16 Twitter thread. “I’ve noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.
“Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker. She’s been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond ‘soft on crime.’ I’m concerned that this [is] a record that endangers our children.”
Hawley noted that Jackson has held this pattern since law school, citing a tract written by her in law school stating that public policy toward sex offenders and possession of child porn is driven by a “climate of fear, hatred, and revenge.” In the document, she called for abandoning child sex offender laws with a primarily “punitive” focus.
“Judges should abandon the prevention/punishment analyses that rely on legislative intent … [and] assess the ‘excessiveness’ of a sex offender statute’s punitive effects in favor of a more principled approach to characterization,” Jackson wrote.
She said in the paper that what, exactly, the new sex offender laws should look like is “almost impossible to construct.” But she said that “a principled approach involves assessing the impact of sex offender statutes and deeming the laws ‘punitive’ to the extent that they operate to deprive sex criminals of a legal right in a manner that primarily has retributive or general-deterrent effects.”
“As a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson advocated for drastic change in how the law treats sex offenders by eliminating the existing mandatory minimum sentences for child porn,” Hawley wrote.
Republican-backed measure to restrict filming of police officers passes Arizona Senate committee
Legislation which would make it illegal to film police officers within eight feet of them is closer to becoming law, despite concerns that it could hinder efforts to document misconduct.
“We believe that this bill stacks the deck against the public check on officer misconduct,” Timothy Sparling, a lawyer and legislative advocate for Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Sparling spoke against House Bill 2319, saying it leaves too much up to the discretion of the officers. The bill states that a person may not film an officer within eight feet without the officer’s permission, and allows both bystanders and those involved in the interaction to film only if such an action is not “interfering” in law enforcement activity.
“When officers have such wide discretion to determine, say, what is lawful conduct or what is unlawful conduct on the ground and that is not properly defined … it’s ultimately up to whatever the officer wants it to be,” Sparling said.
Originally, the bill prohibited filming within 15 feet, but was adjusted to reflect eight-foot moving buffer zones upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court 14 years ago between protestors and abortion clinic patients. K.M. Bell, an attorney for the Arizona chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said that ruling doesn’t apply because the situations aren’t equivalent.
Alabama Man Wins Battle Over His ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ License Plate
Alabama officials reversed a decision to revoke a license plate belonging to Nathan Kirk, referring to the slogan criticizing President Joe Biden — “Let’s go, Brandon” — according to The Washington Post.
The state previously demanded that Kirk surrender his license plate within 10 days in a Feb. 17 letter that called the plate an affront to the “peace and dignity of the State of Alabama,” according to the Post.
“The Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division, has determined the above referenced license plate contains objectionable language which is considered by the Department to be offensive to the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama,” the Feb. 17 letter read, the Post reported.
Kirk ordered the license plate in October 2021 in a “spur of the moment” decision to express his displeasure with the direction of the country under Biden’s leadership, he told the Post.
House passes CROWN Act, banning discrimination against Black hairstyles
During debate on the House floor Friday morning, Democrats argued that the bill addresses a “kitchen table issue” for Black Americans around the country.
The House on Friday passed the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination against individuals based on how they choose to wear their hair.
The measure, H.R. 2116 — or the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act — passed in a vote of 235-189. It was introduced by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.). It prohibits discrimination “based on the individual’s hair texture or hairstyle, if that hair texture or that hairstyle is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.”
Among the hairstyles mentioned in the legislation are those “in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros.”
More than a dozen states have already enacted similar legislation, often with bipartisan support. In remarks on the House floor Friday morning, Watson Coleman cited examples of Black Americans who have been denied employment, housing, federal assistance or equal treatment because of how they chose to wear their hair. In one instance in 2019 that drew national attention, a 16-year-old African American wrestler in New Jersey was ordered by a White referee to cut his dreadlocks before a match or forfeit.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Fact-Checking 3 Biden Claims on Gas Prices
President Joe Biden has insisted that rising gas prices are not a result of his administration’s policies.
This week, he announced the United States would ban oil imports from Russia because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Biden also has suggested that U.S. oil companies are responsible in part for the higher prices due to insufficient domestic production.
Here’s a look at three major claims about gas prices from the president:
- ‘9,000 Permits to Drill’
When he announced the ban on Russian oil imports, Biden said the rise in gas prices in previous months was not the fault of his administration’s policies.
Biden said that only 10% of production takes place on federal lands, and the oil companies have “millions of acres leased” from the federal government.
“They have 9,000 permits to drill now. They could be drilling right now, yesterday, last week, last year,” the president said. “They have 9,000 to drill onshore that are already approved. So, let me be clear. Let me be clear: They are not using them for production now. That’s their decision.”
According to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, there were 9,173 approved permits at the end of 2021.
But it’s not that simple, said Katie Tubb, senior policy analyst for energy and the environment at The Heritage Foundation.
“The 9,000 leases [statistic] is incredibly misleading and shows the administration doesn’t understand their own processes for managing energy production on federal lands and waters,” Tubb told The Daily Signal in an email. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation)
“Bidding for and winning a lease on federal lands and waters is the beginning of a long process to actually produce energy. After leasing, there’s exploration, environmental reviews, permitting, drilling a well, and putting in infrastructure … to actually access oil/natural gas.”
That can take years because of litigation and environmental reviews, according to the Western Energy Alliance, which is defending 2,200 leases for development from lawsuits brought by environmental groups. The federal government also conducts an analysis mandated under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Some leases won’t be developed if the company determines the quantities of oil and natural gas are insufficient.
Further, relying on the 9,000 leases line is “misdirection” from the White House, according to The Wall Street Journal editorial board. That’s because it’s not enough to simply have permits.
It takes about 140 days for the federal government to approve a drilling permit, according to the newspaper. Additionally, the Journal said, regulations have made it tough for companies to get permits to contract rigs for operating on federal lands.
Also, the Department of Interior’s five-year leasing program for the Gulf of Mexico expires in June, and the Biden administration hasn’t proposed a new plan, according to the Journal.
In the past week, the Biden administration proposed new climate standards that would regulate conventional trucks and declined to appeal a federal court decision that vacated the only leases it sold last year on federal lands or waters.
- Keystone ‘Nothing to Do’ With Oil Supply
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was dismissive of questions regarding the Keystone XL pipeline, which Biden canceled on his first day in office.
“The Keystone was not an oil field. It’s a pipeline,” Psaki said this week. “Also, the oil is continuing to flow in, just through other means. So, it actually would have nothing to do with the current supply imbalance.”
The pipeline transporting oil from Canada into the United States would not immediately boost supply. But as a futures market, oil prices are based in part on anticipated supply.
Boosting the long-term outlook would likely affect prices, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, an app that directs motorists to the best gasoline deals, told Politico.
“The president should immediately rescind his policies to block the Keystone XL pipeline, and let the market decide,” De Haan said, adding:
He should also cease anti-oil-and-gas stances and let markets decide. That won’t help much now, but in the long run, it will reverse his damaging decisions. And the nation should support growing our energy independence, to help offset future situations like this.
Also, in the long term, the Keystone XL pipeline—stretching from Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska—would carry about 830,00 barrels of oil per day into the United States from an ally.
That would easily supplant the 800,000 barrels per day the United States imported from Russia during 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Future expectations get factored into commodity prices and futures, Tubb said.
“Approving the pipeline now would be good longer-term policy, and would also send a strong signal to markets (investors, financiers, energy companies) that energy production and infrastructure are welcome,” Tubb said, noting:
We saw just this week how powerful those signals can be. The price per barrel of oil increased following Biden’s ban on Russian imports, then fell when the political ramifications were more muted than feared (and the EU didn’t join in the ban) and when the UAE mildly broke ranks and encouraged OPEC to consider increasing production.
- ‘Putin’s Price Hike’
The Labor Department’s new numbers, released Thursday, show consumer prices rose 0.8% over the past month and almost 8% over the past year. Gas is a big part of that, and Biden said it’s the fault of Putin.
“Today’s inflation report is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases, and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike,” Biden said. “A large contributor to inflation this month was an increase in gas and energy prices as markets reacted to Putin’s aggressive actions.”
The national average price for regular unleaded gas is $4.31 per gallon, according to AAA. That’s up from $3.47 a month ago before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A year ago, when Biden had been president for less than two months, the national average price was $2.81.
Putin is clearly a factor, but inflation and rising gas prices have been a problem for some time, Tubb said.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certainly impacting oil markets and creating a lot of uncertainty about future supply/scarcity that are impacting price, but to stop there is misleading,” she said, adding:
President Biden has consistently told energy companies to increase supply today, but don’t make any long-term investments. What company wants to risk millions to billions of dollars in employees, equipment, infrastructure if they’re not going to get a return?
Although Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called for more energy output, Tubb noted the various federal agencies targeting the oil industry with regulations, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Labor Department, and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
Amos Hochstein, an energy adviser at the State Department, said the “conflict has made it clear to us that we should double down and triple down on the transition [to green energy], and to make it broader, bigger, and faster.”
Biden noted in remarks this week: “Loosening environmental regulations or pulling back clean energy investment won’t—let me explain—won’t—will not lower energy prices for families.”
He added: “Transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy with tax credits to help American families winterize their homes and use less energy, that will—that will help.”
However, the Energy Information Administration finds no scenario under which global demand for oil and natural gas would not increase through at least 2050.
Business Chart of the Day: Ominous Death Cross Forms in Stock Market
A “death cross” has formed on the chart of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Traditionally, this is considered a bearish dynamic.
Technical analysts use moving average (MA) prices to identify trend changes. The death cross uses the average price of the prior 50 days and 200 days.
If the 50-day MA crosses below the 200-day MA, it could mean the market is at the beginning of what will be a longer-term downtrend. This just happened with SPY.
Conversely, when the 50-day crosses above the 200-day, it’s considered bullish. Analysts call this a “golden cross.” One formed on the chart in July 2020 and a long uptrend followed. The death cross may mark the end of it.
HEALTH
Highly pathogenic and lethal avian influenza virus is now spreading across the U.S. and has now been discovered in both commercial poultry flocks and backyard flocks in 12 states in the U.S. including Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Newsweek reported.
A large flock of chickens infected with the deadly and contagious avian flu in Iowa and Wisconsin have been killed to contain the disease.
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced on Friday that deadly avian influenza was detected in a commercial flock of laying hens in southwest Iowa’s Taylor County.
This is the third outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu reported in the state of Iowa in less than a month. Gov. Kim Reynold has issued a disaster proclamation for Taylor County in response to a confirmed positive case of bird flu, KCCI Des Moines reported.
45 Foods from major retailers found to have HIGH levels of GLYPHOSATE
A report found that 45 food items from major U.S. retailers contain high levels of the herbicide glyphosate. The controversial weed killer manufactured by Monsanto had been found to cause cancers.
The report by The Detox Project titled “The Poison in our Daily Bread” examined the glyphosate levels of food items purchased from groceries like Walmart, Hy-Vee, Target and Natural Grocers. It also scrutinized food items purchased from Whole Foods and Amazon – both owned by technology bigwig Jeff Bezos.
Three whole wheat breads made it to the top five of the list of products with high glyphosate levels. Whole wheat bread from Iowa grocery chain Hy-Vee took the No. 1 spot with 1,150 parts per billion (ppb) of glyphosate. Whole wheat sandwich bread from Whole Foods followed at No. 2 with 1,040 ppb. Quaker Oats landed at the fifth spot with 535 ppb. Interestingly, both the Whole Foods wheat bread and Quaker Oats were verified as non-GMO.
“More than half of the foods tested – a total of 45 – contained alarming levels of glyphosate,” said the report. “While none of these foods are genetically engineered, they still contain ingredients that are at high risk of glyphosate contamination.”
The Detox Project added that the findings of its report “uncover the disturbing reality that many Americans seeking a healthier diet are regularly consuming foods that are contaminated with dangerous levels of glyphosate that can compromise their health.” (Related: Kellogg’s commits to phase out use of wheat, oat products produced with glyphosate by 2025.)
6 Natural Ibuprofen Alternatives Backed by Clinical Research
With the public’s growing awareness of the deadly side effects associated with the regular use of synthetic painkillers like ibuprofen, the need for natural, evidence-based alternatives has never been greater
People generally think that over-the-counter drugs are safer than physician-prescribed ones. Unfortunately that does not hold true for drugs like ibuprofen, consumed at a rate of billions of doses, annually, and responsible for thousands of cardiovascular disease-related deaths each year.
Did you know that Merck’s blockbuster drug Vioxx caused more than 27,000 deaths and heart attacks between 1999 and 2003? In fact, it was the FDA’s own drug safety researcher, David Graham, who blew the whistle on the agency in 2004 at a Congressional hearing, estimating that over 60,000 Americans died as a result of its use, and the FDA’s inaction around their well-known side effects.
What does this have to do with ibuprofen? Researchers have known that ibuprofen is at least as dangerous as Vioxx for at least six years. But millions continue to take this drug, daily, without receiving adequate warning, while heart disease and cardiac mortality statistics continue to expand unabated.
Here are a 6 clinically validated, natural alternatives worth considering:
- Arnica: a 2007 study found that arnica, applied topically, was as effective as ibuprofen for relieving symptoms associated with osteoarthritis of the wrist, and with less side effects.
- Ginger: a 2009 study found that ginger was effective as ibuprofen for pain symptoms associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).
- Turmeric: a 2014 study found that turmeric extracts were as effective as ibuprofen for relieving symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.
- Thyme: 2004 study found that an extract of thyme was as effective as ibuprofen in reducing pain and spasm symptoms associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).
- Omega-3 fatty acids: a 2006 study found that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation with fish oil helped neurosurgery patients reduce their need for medications, and experienced results consistent with previous research indicating palliative effects at least as effective as ibuprofen.
- Cinnamon: a 2015 study found that cinnamon was as effective as ibuprofen for pain associated with difficult menstrual cycles (dysmenorrhea).
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COVID RELATED NEWS
Moderna seeks FDA authorization for fourth COVID-19 shot
A primary series of 2 doses and a booster dose are currently recommended by health officials
Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine.
The biotech company wrote in a release that it had requested the agency amend the emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow for the additional booster in adults ages 18 years and older who have received an initial booster of any of the authorized or approved vaccines.
Children in China Diagnosed With Leukemia After Taking Chinese Vaccines
After receiving an initial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Li Jun’s 4-year-old daughter developed a fever and began coughing, which quickly subsided following intravenous therapy at a hospital. But after the second shot, the father could tell something was wrong.
CDC Removes 24 Percent of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19, including nearly a quarter of deaths it had listed in those under 18 years old.
The health agency quietly made the change on its data tracker website on March 15.
“Data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories,” the CDC says on the site.
The CDC relies on states and other jurisdictions to report COVID-19 deaths and acknowledges on its website that the data is not complete.
But the statistics are often cited by doctors and others when pushing for COVID-19 vaccination, including figures who believe virtually all children should be vaccinated. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, cited the tracker’s death total in November 2021 while pushing for an expert panel to advise her agency to recommend vaccination for all children 5- to 11-years-old.
Before the change, the CDC listed 1,755 children as dying from COVID-19 along with approximately 851,000 others, according to Kelley Krohnert, a Georgia resident who has been tracking the updates.
The update saw the CDC cut 416 deaths among children and over 71,000 elsewhere, arriving at a total of just under 780,000.
Roundtable Discussion on COVID Treatments and Mandates
March 7, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a roundtable discussion about COVID treatment, early treatment suppression, vaccine risks, the collateral damage from school closures and lockdowns and more
March 8, 2022, the Florida Department of Health updated its guidance, formally recommending against COVID vaccination for healthy children, 5 to 17. Florida is the first state to go against CDC vaccine recommendations
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo stressed that, as we move forward, we must insist on holding decision makers accountable for their harmful public health decisions. “Their choices, that they made for everyone, were the wrong choices that led to, basically, no appreciable benefit,” Ladapo said
According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID, yet children have been forced to bear the burden of disease prevention. “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children,” he said
According to Dr. Sunetra Gupta, what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” Doubt was cast on things that were certain, while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about. Decision makers chose to do the very things we knew, for certain, would cause harm. They inverted the precautionary principle to minimize harm, and chose to maximize harm instead
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