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On August 23, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US approved the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, the fastest approval in the agency's history. This means the shot is no longer only in use under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and opens the door for vaccine mandates by employers, universities and the military, and gives doctors flexibility in using vaccinations for "off-label use," like giving booster shots. But the approval has been far from straight forward. Firstly, the FDA did...

Language. We use it to speak, obtain information and enrich our minds. We're immersed in it every day and would find it nearly impossible to communicate and exist in the ways that we're used to without it. And yet the use of language - and all its varied and nuanced components - are very largely taken for granted by us until we take a step or two back to think about how language works, how incredibly complex it is, what many languages have in common, what makes language successful (or not),...

The goalposts keep changing in the 'pandemic crisis'. From reassuring people that children are not at risk from Covid-19, governments have begun ignoring their own scientific advisors' advice to push for vaccinating children against Covid-19. In response to this, protests are intensifying in scale and scope as parents realize 'parental rights' no longer mean what they used to. On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of developments in 'Pandemia' this week, connecting the increasing...

With the rise of the dreaded Covid variants, the authorities have been screeching from the pulpit that everyone needs to be vaccinated to protect themselves, now more than ever. However, there is significant evidence that these variants have arisen specifically due to wide-scale vaccination events. Called 'leaky vaccines,' this possibility arises when the shots don't eradicate the disease in its entirety, but allow the virus to mutate into forms resistant to the vaccine. Indeed, some...

The mass evacuation operation of several tens of thousands of Westerners and Afghans was brutally interrupted this week by what the media reported was a 'double-suicide bombing'. 13 US soldiers, an unconfirmed number of Taliban, and dozens of Afghan civilians were killed. A group of dubious origin named 'ISIS-K', Western media reported, claimed responsibility for the attack. But the US military has since clarified that just one, not two, explosions took place, while some local eyewitness...

During the Cold War, the world's liberal democracies, like the USA, were widely perceived as the bastion of freedom, especially to those behind the Iron Curtain. But the past three decades have caused many to revise their views. With the rise of totalitarian thinking and practice in the West in those years, the question must be asked: what happened? Professor of Philosophy and conservative politician Ryszard Legutko pondered these questions in the 1990s and 2000s, culminating in his 2012...

The 'sudden collapse' of the US-installed regime in Kabul, sweeping the Taliban back into power in Afghanistan, brought the war in Afghanistan to a stunning end last week. The chaos at Kabul Airport as tens of thousands of Americans, other Western citizens, and Afghan allies attempt to flee the new regime is mirrored by chaos in the halls of power as the White House, US National Security State, and even the media struggle to explain what the heck just happened. In this NewsReal, Joe and...

Welcome to another 'In the News' episode of the Objective:Health show, where we look into the latest health headlines to give you the O:H take. On this week's show, we look at German pathologist Dr. Peter Schirmacher findings after doing autopsies on 40 patients who died within 2 weeks of getting the Covid shot. He concluded that 30-40% could be directly attributed to the "vaccines." He's not calling for anything drastic; simply asking for more autopsies of those who die shortly after...

Is the war in Afghanistan finally over? The US' longest war appears to be reaching its conclusion with the withdrawal of American forces, and the Taliban's rapid advance into Afghanistan's cities. Although it seems to have occurred 'overnight', this development has actually been in play since the Trump administration. Since the week before Western lockdowns began, funnily enough... In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall explain why the bizarre (mis)adventure of 'get Osama Bin Laden hiding out in...

For some it is the holiest book, they only one you'll ever need. For others it is a tool of conquering. Some find in it the loftiest values, others only the basest superstitions. Today on MindMatters we delve into this contradictory world of interpretations: religion as a source of extrinsic morality, or a call to the spark of divinity within, or somewhere in between. Perhaps, just like humanity, the Bible is multilevel in nature, with a little something for everyone, from saints to...