Males under 40 years old are more likely to experience heart inflammation after getting a booster shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine than COVID-19 itself, according to a recently published study. Males in the age group had a myocarditis incidence rate ratio of 7.6 in the 28 days following receipt of a Pfizer booster, researchers with…
Young Men More Likely to Get Heart Inflammation After Pfizer’s Booster Than COVID-19: Study
State Department Warns Americans Traveling Abroad to ‘Make Contingency Plans’
The U.S. State Department on late Thursday warned Americans who are traveling outside the country to “make contingency plans” amid restrictions associated with rising COVID-19 cases worldwide. “U.S. citizens who do choose to travel internationally should make contingency plans, as they may have to remain in a foreign country longer than originally planned, which will…
China’s Belt and Road Raises Debt and Pollution Among Poorer Countries
News Analysis China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was meant to increase the GDP of participating countries. In many countries, however, debt to China has increased, pollution has increased, and the trade deficit with China has increased; while GDP growth, associated with the BRI, has been elusive. A Silk Road to Debt In 2013, Chinese…
Omicron May Not Be the Final Variant, but It May Be the Final Variant of Concern
It is controversial whether viruses are alive, but – like all living things – they do evolve. This fact has become abundantly clear during the pandemic, as new variants of concern have emerged every few months. Some of these variants have been better at spreading from person to person, eventually becoming dominant as they out-compete…
Global Equity Funds Lure Big Inflows as Omicron Fears Ease: Lipper
Global equity funds drew massive inflows for a second week in the seven days to Dec. 29 as investors welcomed signs that the economic impact from the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant would not be as significant as feared. The funds pulled in $30.08 billion in net buying, compared with purchases of $35.83 billion…
Trailblazing the West
Benjamin Bonneville was born in France, the godson of none other than Thomas Paine, who called the boy “Bebia.” Paine had lived with the Bonnevilles in France during much of the 1790s, so when that family fell under the persecution of a rising Napoleon, Paine invited them to live with him in the United States….
30,000 Evacuated, Hundreds of Homes Burned in Fast-Moving Colorado Wildfires
Tens of thousands of people were evacuated and hundreds of homes were destroyed as wildfires spread near Denver, Colorado. The fires are moving in Boulder County, located north of Denver, prompting Gov. Jared Polis to declare an emergency. Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said there could be more injuries and deaths than reported due to…
Making Bricks Without Straw: Biden’s Raw New Deal for America
December 31, 2021
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Commentary West Virginia’s Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) chose the setting of the Sunday morning cable talk show circuit this past weekend to officially report he will not vote in favor of the current version of President Biden’s so-called Build Back Better (BBB) boondoggle. With all 50 Democrat senators needed (plus Vice President Kamala Harris as…
28 California DAs Block Early Releases for Violent Criminals
December 31, 2021
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Twenty-eight district attorneys across California, including San Diego County’s, have been granted a temporary restraining order to prevent some repeat offenders with serious and violent criminal histories from being released early by the state prison officials, Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced on Dec. 29. The temporary restraining order granted by Sacramento Superior Court Judge…
Read How California’s Latest Law Could Target Amazon
December 31, 2021
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California envisaged a new law to prevent the warehousing industry from overworking employees, Bloomberg reports. Clearly, Amazon.com Inc. is the regulatory body’s target, the report adds. Amazon has given machines unparalleled control over workers and allegedly used technology to impose unreasonable demands on them. AB 701, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, prohibits monitoring systems that thwart fundamental…
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