Childhood Obesity: Drugs and Surgery Top List of American Academy of Pediatrics New Guidelines
(This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website) The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity recommend weight-loss drugs and surgery, prompting some to ask why the academy is focused on profit-generating treatments rather than addressing the root causes. By The Defender Staff 01/10/23 The […]
Biden Officials ‘Relentless’ in Pressuring Social Media Companies to Censor COVID Content
The authors of a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday called out the “relentless, coercive pressure” the White House put on social media companies to censor COVID-19-related information that contradicted the government and mainstream media narrative. By The Defender Staff The authors of a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Sunday called out the “relentless, coercive pressure” the […]
EXCLUSIVE: China Upped Its Donations to the Biden Center 400% with $50M in Donations After Biden Announced his Campaign
By Joe Hoft Published January 10, 2023 at 1:45pm In July 2021 TGP reported on China’s involvement in the Biden Center. What many may not know about is the Biden Center that operates out of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)… … It turns out that Chinese donations for the Biden Center increased by nearly 400% the same […]
BREAKING: China launches massive sea, air combat exercise, scrambles jets around Taiwan
“PLA Eastern Theater Command held cross-service joint alert patrol & combat drills in waters, aerial areas around Taiwan island on Sunday focusing on land attack, sea assault.” Joshua Young Jan 8, 20233 Minute Read On Sunday, the People’s Republic of China’s military force, the People’s Liberation Army, began combat drills in the “waters” and “aerial […]
Massive Hedge Fund, Also Known As Swiss National Bank, Suffers Colossal $143 Billion Loss In 2022
BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, JAN 10, 2023 – 06:55 AM The last time we looked at the massive money-printing (literally) hedge fund that also moonlights as the Swiss National Bank, we were stunned to learn that its US equity holdings had exploded to a record $177 billion at the end of Q1 2022, orders of […]
Sweden To Reactivate Civil Conscription In Response To Ukraine War
Sweden To Reactivate Civil Conscription In Response To Ukraine War The Scandinavian countries are continuing their militarized posture in response to the Russian war in Ukraine, with Sweden’s government being the latest to issue a surprise announcement and unusual move, given its longtime peace and prior stance of historic neutrality. On Monday Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson […]
Russia Restores Output At Sakhalin-1 Oil Project After Exxon Exit
Russia Restores Output At Sakhalin-1 Oil Project After Exxon Exit By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Russia has ramped up oil production from the Sakhalin-1 project and expects the field to soon pump at the full level of 220,000 barrels per day (bpd) after the project’s previous operator, U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil, quit Russian operations, an industry […]
Ship Carrying Ukraine Grain Refloated After Running Aground In Egypt’s Suez Canal
Ship Carrying Ukraine Grain Refloated After Running Aground In Egypt’s Suez Canal The bulk carrier “Glory,” carrying grain from Ukraine to China, suffered “equipment failure” and went aground early Monday in the Suez Canal, the canal authority said. The vessel was refloated, and canal traffic was restored before major disruptions plagued the Egyptian waterway. “The […]
Where People From Ukraine Are Fleeing To
Where People From Ukraine Are Fleeing To As of December 27, 2022, around 16.9 million border crossings from Ukraine into neighboring countries had taken place due to the ongoing war. As Statista’s Florian Zandt shows in the chart below, based on data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), most of the people leaving chose […]
Sweden Won’t Meet Turkey Demands To Win Its Vote On NATO Membership
Sweden Won’t Meet Turkey Demands To Win Its Vote On NATO Membership Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Ooh, things are getting to be fun! Nothing like watching geopolitical jousting out in the open. Here, we have the US (and NATO) attempting to push around Türkiye, a country that holds far too many cards to […]
The GOP Is The Unlettered Party, And That’s A Good Thing
The GOP Is The Unlettered Party, And That’s A Good Thing Authored by Karl Zinsmeister via RealClear Wire, Over the coming weeks, a new band of Republicans will announce themselves as candidates in the next presidential race. The frontrunners will be scrappy populists. Today’s most successful center-right politicians are not only champions of the common […]
Where The World’s Ultra-Wealthy Live
Where The World’s Ultra-Wealthy Live How many millionaires, centimillionaires, and billionaires live in the world’s wealthiest cities? While such metrics are not all encompassing, these measurements of private wealth do help put the financial health and economic activity of some of the world’s wealthiest cities in perspective. Visual Capitalist’s Raul Amoros and Nick Routley created […]
Set For A Supreme Showdown? Fifth Circuit Rejects Bump Stock Ban In Contrast To Other Circuits
Set For A Supreme Showdown? Fifth Circuit Rejects Bump Stock Ban In Contrast To Other Circuits Authored by Jonathan Turley, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has handed down a major opinion in Cargill v. Garland, No. 20-51016, ruling 13-3 that the ATF ban on bump stocks is unlawful. The en banc […]