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Dan Simmer

TB has reappeared in the US. Why?

Yesterday Science Alert reported that an outbreak in the USA of tuberculosis (“TB”) began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties. To date, 147 people have been diagnosed with TB with 67 becoming ill. TB is always p

Drought-stricken Algeria plans to import 1 million sheep ahead of Islam's Eid Al-Adha

Sheep are for sale in a northern district of Algiers on June 8, 2024, ahead of the Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son.

Soros-linked activists flood Romanian Electoral Bureau with appeals against Georgescu, Brussels pressured Romania to block Georgescu’s bid for presidency – Electoral Bureau complies

Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau rejected Călin Georgescu’s presidential candidacy, raising legal concerns over exceeding its authority. Thousands of people took to the streets in Bucharest, protesting the decision. Georgescu announced th

Iraq: Personal Status Law Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights

(Beirut) – After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women’s and girls’ rights to equality before the law and puts them at risk of other

USAID funded Soros who funded far-left agendas in Europe and Latin America

Ironically, many of the organisations receiving funding from USAID are non-governmental organisations (“NGOs”) that actually receive most of their funding from the government. One such NGO that has received funding from USAID is George Soro

Marco Rubio pivots to America First diplomacy

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025.

The soundtrack to King Charles' life features music from Kylie Minogue

You think they were dancing to Kylie Minogue back in 1978? Central Press/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption Monarchs! They're just like u

The RSV Vaccine is Here – Aren’t We lucky?

Dr Vernon Coleman has received an invite from the NHS to have an RSV vaccine. He gives us some home truths about the vaccine. Once you read this you’ll decline the NHS’ offer. Let’s not lose touch…Your Government and Big Tech are actively

Unexploded WWII bomb in Paris halts Eurostar travel to London

Travelers wait as Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France have been brought to a halt following the discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War II near the tracks on Friday, March 7, 2025, at the Gar

Court orders South Korean President Yoon released from jail

A TV screen shows footage of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's address at the final hearing of his trial during a news program at a bus terminal in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.

Allostatic Load, a Measure of Cumulative Physiological Stress, Impairs Brain Structure but Not Amyloid Accumulation in Older Adults: An Exploratory Study

Allostatic load (AL) is a composite score of progressive physiological dysregulations in response to longterm exposure to everyday stress. Despite growing interest, limited research has focused on links with cerebral and cognitive aspects o

Under Pressure: Deep-Sea Elasmobranchs Experience High Mortality and Stress in a Crustacean Trawling Fishery

Crustacean bottom trawling in southern Portugal is a an economic and culturally important fishing activity but may result in considerable bycatch of deep-sea elasmobranchs (DSE). Due to DSE life-history strategies, at-vessel mortality (AVM)

In the Shadow of Mount Nyiro

Navigating northwards from the town of Isiolo within The Rift Valley of Central Kenya, some of our East African partners and myself quickly found ourselves off the tarmac and using dirt roads traversing from village to village, which are fe

The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal

Northern Alberta’s Wonder Valley development seems somewhat less wonderful lately. Celebrity investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by “200 trillion cubic feet of sweet na

The Banks We Deserve: Excerpt

Ed note: This excerpt is taken from From The Banks We Deserve by Oscar Perry Abello. Copyright © 2025 Oscar Perry Abello. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. The Banks We Deserve: Reclaiming Community Banking for a Ju