By Meiling Lee, EPOCH TIMES    

The New Jersey pharmaceutical company supplying ivermectin to a UK trial that was paused for a short period of time, says there are no supply issues with its pills.

Ivermectin is being investigated as part of the government-backed Platform Randomised Trial of Treatments in the Community for Epidemic and Pandemic Illnesses (PRINCIPLE) in the United Kingdom as a possible home treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The trial was put on hold due to “temporary supply issues” as reported by Medpage Today on Dec. 14.

Details were not provided on the cause of the supply issues. The trial’s joint chief investigator, professor Chris Butler, and the trial’s press team declined to comment and respond to a query asking when the supply issue is expected to be resolved.

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NASA’s James Webb telescope launches on daring quest to behold the first stars and scour the universe for hints of life

By MARCIA DUNN, TOI

In this image released by NASA, Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, at Europe’s Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (NASA via AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky.

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by Jeff Miller, REPUBLICAN BRIEF         DEC 24

There are a lot of questions surrounding the events in the State Farm Arena in Fulton County during Election 2020. All 148,318 absentee ballots were reportedly scanned in Fulton County’s ballot processing center at the Arena.

Those ballots processed in the Arena were supposed to be authenticated first. The voter logs were to be used to identify voters, and then the signatures would be verified. Separated from their envelopes, the ballots were then to be arranged in batches of 100. Each batch of ballots was then scanned using a Cannon DR-G2140 high-speed machine [as can be seen in the video from the Arena on Election night.] The image of every ballot was saved simultaneously.

The Fulton County clerk produced scanned images of absentee ballots as a result of a previous lawsuit. These images have been made public and are currently under review by a variety of individuals and groups. Read more…

Pres Reagan.  “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” he said. “We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

The moral struggle continues.

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

For years, if you opened the closet in the foyer of my Manhattan apartment, you’d encounter a pile of copies of the New York Times from the week in late December 1991 during which the Soviet Union breathed its last. I’ve never been in the habit of hanging on to old newspapers in which my byline didn’t appear, but that week, it seemed to me at the time, was the greatest historical turning point I’d ever experienced.

It was certainly the most astonishing. I remember a point, sometime in the late 1980s, when, during a visit to Washington, I expressed over lunch with American Spectator editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski what was then an almost universal cynicism about talk of a post-Communist Europe. “No,” said Wlady, who was far more plugged into these developments than most of us, “it’s really happening.”

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“The FDA has refused to even explore approval of cheap, safe, and effective repurposed drugs for 20 months, despite mounds of evidence from studies vouching for their efficacy and safety. So, naturally, now that the agency is on track to issue an emergency use authorization to the first outpatient drug for COVID, this one must be the greatest thing since penicillin, right? Wrong! In fact, the drug is so dangerous and has so many known and unknown side effects that the FDA advisory committee members basically admitted this was a “difficult” decision and that they could rescind the authorization later on. This decision makes their rejection of ivermectin, fluvoxamine, nitazoxanide, and hydroxychloroquine all the more indefensible.”

By Daniel Horowitz, THE BLAZE

Later this week, the FDA plans to approve, as the first outpatient COVID drugs, therapeutics that are extremely dangerous and unproven, even as the agency goes to war against cheap, safe, and proven drugs with a track record of no serious adverse events. The approval is as shocking as it is revealing and should serve as a warning to those who don’t believe the FDA would approve vaccines that aren’t safe and effective.

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by Victor Rosenthal  Dec 23/21

In my previous blog I wrote incorrectly that 16 Israelis were murdered in the 2001 Sbarro Restaurant bombing, with one victim remaining unconscious only to die later.

The truth is that 15 died in the explosion or immediately after, and 130 were injured, some of them very seriously. A 31-year old woman named  Chana Nachenberg, who was there with Sarah, her toddler daughter, suffered a traumatic brain injury from one of the pieces of shrapnel in the bomb, and entered what doctors call a “persistent vegetative state.” Chana is still alive 20 years later, and still unresponsive. Her daughter Sarah was one of the few at the location who escaped unhurt.

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By Heather Mac Donald, NY POST

The data out of South Africa, after five weeks of Omicron spread, suggest that Omicron should be a cause for celebration, not fear.Getty Images/iStockphoto

In March 2020, a profile of the typical COVID victim emerged from Italy. The average decedent was 80 years old, with approximately three comorbidities, such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes. The young had little to worry about; the survival rate for the vast majority of the population was well over 99 percent.

That portrait never significantly changed. The early assessments of COVID out of Italy have remained valid through today. And so it will prove with the Omicron variant.
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by Howard Rotberg, NER      DEC 23/21

“We having nothing to fear but fear itself. -Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing in association with the University of Minnesota, has a website called Taking Charge of your Health & Wellbeing.  In our age of fear of Covid, this site has some great insights.

What is the effect on our physical, mental and spiritual health of living in fear? Is there something we can learn that can be applied to the exaggerated fear of a virus that has a modest fatality rate, especially among younger and healthier people?  Why are we so fearful that we are vaccinating young children against a virus that hardly affects them, concerning which we have inadequate long-term studies on side effects for their lifetimes. Why are we equating these MNRA vaccines with polio vaccines of the ‘50s which were different in scientific terms and dealt with a much more serious illness for children and which were long studied before use?

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DON’T MISS THIS INTERVIEW

FormerIsrael Amb Ron Dermer is interviewed by Makovski of JINSA about Iran

“We’re at a critical moment when Israel and her leaders and all of us who love Israel must stand strong against what this administration is trying to do,” ZOA President Mort Klein told viewers of the organization’s virtual gala.

By Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS

(DECEMBER 22, 2021 / JNS) Leaders of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) warned supporters to be vigilant against what they believe to be increasing anti-Israel positions from leaders, and the trend of encroaching tolerance for antisemitic rhetoric masked as anti-Zionism, during the organization’s annual gala on Sunday.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the gala was held as a webcast, highlighted by video addresses from leaders and activists in the ZOA, as well as politicians such as former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

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By Victor Davis Hanson

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, three retired generals, Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba, and Steven Anderson warn of a supposedly impending coup should Donald Trump be elected in 2024.

The column seemed strangely timed to coincide with a storm of recent Democratic talking points that a re-elected Trump, or even a Republican sweep of the 2022 midterms, would spell a virtual end of democracy.

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Tucker Carlson’s segment last night dealt with the failings of the Democratic Party and how because of that, they are trying to scare you and ruin your Christmas.

The Fox News host explained that the Democratic Party can no longer run America because of one key fact, the latest Marist poll has only 33% of Hispanics supporting Joe Biden. That’s a massive blow. There is no way a Democrat president can be re-elected, or elected, with numbers that low in that demographic.

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T. Belman. Probably the promotion of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine was prohibited, in order to give Pfizer the opportunity to come out with a competing and more costly product.

Dr Zelenko is now promoting his own product. HERE

The U.S. has authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans can take at home to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death.  Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment

By MATTHEW PERRONEAP Health Writer, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.

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T. Belman. Choudhury reached out to me referring to Israpundit as an “esteemed publication”. He is a multi-award-winning anti-militancy journalist, research-scholar, counterterrorism specialist and editor of Weekly Blitz. Follow him on Twitter @salah_shoaib. The WB was founded in 2003 and is published in Bangladesh.

Mudar Zahran has also informed me on what the Koran says in this regard.

By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, WEEKLY BLITZ

Does Quran mention about anything called Palestine? On December 16, I was interviewed by Mike Wagenheim, Senior US Correspondent of the i24 News. During this interview, giving specific reference to the Holy Quran, I said, there is really no existence of anything named Palestinian territory. Instead, Quran clearly says, Israel is the blessed land gifted by God to the children of Israel (Isaac) – meaning Jews. Nowhere in the Quran, there is anything stating, the blessed land – Israel was for the children of Isaac and Ishmael. Meaning, demanding anything named Palestine within the land of Israel is direct violation of Quran and can also be deemed as blasphemy.

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By MARTIN SHERMAN

There are only two possibilities regarding Finance Minister Liberman’s involvement in what has become known as the “Yisrael Beiteinu affair”; neither bodes well for Israel.

Power doesn’t corrupt people; people corrupt power—William Gaddis (1922-1998).

Much has been aired about the glaring defects of the current Israeli government—about how it rewards deceit, how it disregards disloyalty, and how it undermines the founding precepts of Zionism. But one of its more egregious aspects, generally overlooked, surfaced albeit obliquely last week with news of the imprisonment of several senior members of Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman’s faction, Yisrael Beiteinu.
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