Bobbi Wine, Uganda’s top opposition candidate, said his compound in the country’s capital, Kampala, was breached by security forces Friday and he was “under siege” shortly before it was announced he lost his bid to unseat the country’s six-term president, The New York Times reported. “The military has jumped over the fence and is now taking...
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INTERNET FREEDOM: HONG KONG UNDER ATTACK
Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), a major internet provider in the city, announced last week that it disabled access to HKChronicles, a pro-democracy website, after a request by officials who cited the new security law that prompted months of protests. HKCronicles reportedly “doxxed” pro-Beijing influencers, police, and their families. Reuters reported HKBN was informed about...
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ANOTHER ETHNIC MASSACRE IN ETHIOPIA
Unidentified gunmen raided a village in the western region of Ethiopia last Tuesday and killed at least 80 people in what was called an ethnic massacre by witnesses and the country’s human rights commission. The killings occurred as the country is embroiled in a conflict in its Tigray region during an effort by Prime Minister...
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ISRAEL BOMBS SYRIA
Israel launched an air attack in Syria on Wednesday that killed some 40 Syrian soldiers and reduced a weapons depot and other sites to rubble, a report said. The Wall Street Journal reported the targets were in various cities, including some that border Iraq. Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s settlement affairs minister, said, “Israel is determined to...
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YOU NEED AN IRON WILL
In Memoriam: our beloved friend, Bradley J. Steiner, passed on December 5, 2020. In his legacy, we are fighting the “Brad Steiner fight” – the good fight. The fight for each person to be the person they want to be and to protect themselves when their lives are being viciously threatened by enemies of Freedom, Peace,...
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LAB-GROWN HEART CELLS IMPLANTED INTO HUMAN PATIENT
In the first such process on record, scientists at Kyoto University have surgically implanted lab-grown heart cells into a patient. First, the research team harvested cells from the patient and regressed them to become “induced pluripotent stem cells” (IPSCs) by exposing them to a virus that transferred 24 selected genes into the cells. The new...
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SCIENTISTS BUILD WORKING HUMAN THYMUS
Using human stem cells, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London have, for the first time, grown a working human thymus. The thymus, sitting between the heart and the sternum, is essential in establishing the body’s immune system. Once that task is done, the thymus gradually wastes away until it virtually disappears...
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ARTIFICIAL NEURONS FUNCTION LIKE LIVING COUNTERPARTS
For years, scientists have been attempting to replicate in silicon the functions of neurons – the nerve cells that are the fundamental units of the human brain. Now researchers at the University of Bath claim to have done it. The achievement rests on three breakthroughs, the developers say: they developed a mathematical method to model...
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CANADIAN DOC DEBUNKS COVID FATALITY RATE
Would the average person believe that the median fatality rate for COVID for those under 70 years old is 0.05 percent? Yes, if you read the data we have provided in the Trends Journal. A newly released peer-reviewed study by Dr. Ari Joffe, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in...
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VAX COUNT IN U.S. AND BEYOND
As of 15 January, close to 12.2 million doses of the COVID vaccine have been administered, and nearly four people per hundred have received at least one dose, according to national statistics compiled by the CDC. States with the highest vaccination rates included West Virginia, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, averaging about seven vaccinations...