Month: August 2022

Chinese Medicine: Eight Causes of Headaches, Their Origins, and Treatment

August 31, 2022
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Headache is a localized pain that occurs in the head, neck, or above the shoulder. Frequent headaches not only affect one’s life, relationships, and work but also have a chance of developing into depression. Dr. Teng Cheng Liang, director of the Cheng Liang Medical Clinic, suggests eight common causes of headaches, explains their sources, symptoms,…

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Will Gov. Youngkin Be Number 9?

August 31, 2022
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Commentary Richmond, Va.—Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has been in office only seven months and already he is listed at number five in a Washington Post story about possible 2024 GOP presidential candidates. In an interview, I asked him to respond to suggestions in some quarters that he might be well positioned to run for president in 2024….

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California Grid Warns of ‘Flex Alerts,’ Suggests Residents Not to Charge Electric Cars

August 31, 2022
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Californians were warned by the state’s grid operator that they might be asked not to charge electric vehicles in the coming days to prevent blackouts amid a regional heatwave—coming less than a week after state regulators voted to phase out new gas-powered vehicles in favor of electric cars by 2035. California Independent System Operator said…

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Law Professor Says DOJ Photo of ‘TOP SECRET’ Mar-a-Lago Documents Could Be ‘Misleading’

August 31, 2022
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Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley wrote that a newly disclosed FBI photo taken at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago could leave a “misleading impression.” The image appears to show six documents labeled “top secret” and others dubbed “secret,” apparently captured inside Trump’s Florida residence during the FBI raid in early August. It was included toward the…

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‘Catastrophic’ College of Policing ‘Should Be Replaced’: Report

August 31, 2022
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Britain’s next prime minister needs to implement a series of targeted reforms as the public believe that the police are “more interested in being woke than solving crimes,” a report has urged. The report by the conservative think tank Policy Exchange (pdf), written by former Metropolitan Police officer David Spencer, said that said police should…

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Eat This Kind of Meat and You Could End Up With Alzheimer’s

August 31, 2022
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Prions are detected in 25% to 50% of all Alzheimer’s patients. People are 10 times more likely to be cognitively impaired at death than those without them. STORY AT-A-GLANCE For a number of years now, researchers have theorized and found evidence suggesting Alzheimer’s disease may in fact be a type of prion-based disease, capable of…

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California Reverses Field—Threatens to Arrest Dr. Fauci

August 31, 2022
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Commentary Okay, that’s a clickbait headline … so beat me up in the comments. I’m in a bad mood and woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning after the president called me and half of the country “semi-fascist.” I didn’t think it was possible for him to break his own record…

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Canada to Implement 988 Suicide Crisis Line Starting in Fall 2023

August 31, 2022
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The CRTC says it will launch a new emergency crisis number for people in need of immediate mental health or suicide prevention support. It says starting at the end of November 2023, Canadians will be able to call 988 to be connected to a mental health crisis or suicide prevention service, free of charge. The…

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UN Mission Says Ukraine Nuclear Plant Inspection to Last ‘A Few Days’

August 31, 2022
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—U.N. nuclear inspectors set off for Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Wednesday, saying their mission was to prevent a nuclear accident and try to stabilise the situation after weeks of shelling nearby. A Reuters reporter following the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team in a convoy from the capital Kyiv said the inspectors arrived…

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Earnings Decline–Likely More to Go Before We Are Done

August 31, 2022
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Commentary  Last year I wrote an article discussing that 2022 earnings estimates were too optimistic, given the impending reversal of the economic “sugar rush” of massive liquidity injections. With the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates, the phenomenon of high inflation, and slower economic growth in the mix, a continuation of said earnings decline remains highly probable….

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