Author: HP McLovincraft

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Pfizer Says Lyme Vaccine Missed Trial Target, Will Still Seek Approval

Pfizer and its partner Valneva said on March 23 that their experimental Lyme disease vaccine did not meet the target in a clinical trial, but that the results were strong enough that the firms will seek regulatory approval for the shot.

The vaccine, known as LB6V, was about 75 percent efficacious in reducing confirmed Lyme in recipients compared with placebo recipients, the companies said. The efficacy was measured one day after the fourth vaccine dose, and was similar to the 73 percent efficacy observed 28 days after the fourth shot.

The drugmakers said that because there were fewer Lyme cases than expected during the trial, dubbed VALOR, the predetermined statistical target was not met. However, because the efficacy was “clinically meaningful,” the companies expressed confidence in the shot and said they would be filing for approval.

“The efficacy shown in the VALOR study of more than 70 percent is highly encouraging and creates confidence in the vaccine’s potential to protect against this disease that can be debilitating,” Annaliesa Anderson, Pfizer’s chief vaccines officer, said in a statement.

Valneva CEO Thomas Lingelbach said: “[The results] bring us a step closer to our goal of delivering a much-needed vaccine.

“We are grateful to our partner Pfizer for their strong commitment which we both share in developing this vaccine as quickly as possible.”

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Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown

The latest edict from beard-obsessed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth adds strict new regulations to his crusade on facial hair, which rights groups have characterized as an attack on troops’ civil liberties.

In a March 11 memo, Hegseth, who has made grooming and appearances a central focus in his time at the helm of the U.S. military, raised the bar to qualify for a religious exemption to his blanket ban on beards. The guidelines lay out a strict new process by which service members may apply for a religious exemption and subject those who’ve already received one to a reevaluation, arguing they need to ensure their religious beliefs are “sincerely held” and have a genuine conflict with the grooming standards.

Service members who have spoken against Hegseth’s focus on grooming standards say his restrictions on beards are exclusionary to people from religious communities that require adherents to follow specific tenets of faith around beards, hair, and other grooming matters.

Sikhs, for example, who have served in the U.S. military since at least World War I, are required by their faith not to cut the hair on their head, to keep a beard, and to wrap their long hair in a turban. Members of many schools of Muslim tradition likewise have rules around beards and hair length.

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British Royal Family Is Planning Legal Ways To Prevent Sarah Ferguson From Publishing ‘Tell-All Memoir’ With Unlimited Damaging Potential

Fergie can reignite the ‘Epstein crisis’ and take it to new heights.

The shockwaves from the revelations contained in the US DOJ-released ‘Epstein files’ have greatly subsided, and we’ve come to a point where both the British government and the Royal family dare dream of a moment when they will have put this behind them.

That is – if Fergie does not get in the way.

Former Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has had her reputation totally ruined with the tsunami of new damaging information released about her and her former husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

But now, she wants to put out her version of facts.

OK! Magazine reported:

“Sarah Ferguson is said to be preparing a dramatic return to the public stage with a tell-all memoir – a move sources tell OK! has triggered unprecedented legal planning within the royal household as King Charles and Prince William consider ways to prevent the publication of explosive claims about the monarchy.”

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Paedophile migrant who failed to disclose child sex offence after coming to UK wins appeal against deportation as judge rules it was ‘honest mistake’

A paedophile migrant who failed to disclose his conviction for molesting a five-year-old to UK authorities has won the right to fight against his deportation. 

An immigration judge ruled Edi Cardoso Ramos, 29, made an ‘honest mistake’ when he did not mention his criminal past while applying for leave to remain in the UK. 

He had been convicted of a ‘serious sexual offence’ against a five-year-old in his home country of Portugal for which he received a three-year suspended sentence.

His sordid past only came to light when Ramos was caught in the UK with a prostitute and a police background check uncovered the conviction, prompting the Home Office to start deportation proceedings.   

But Ramos has now successfully appealed against his deportation, after a judge accepted that he had misunderstood an official form asking about his previous convictions and concluding that ‘the threat he represents is not a present threat’.

It means his case will be heard from afresh and he will have the chance to fight deportation.

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber heard that Ramos was convicted of sexually abusing his child victim in 2014 when he was 19 years old, having committed the offence in 2012.

Ramos was given a three-year suspended custodial sentence which did not activate because he complied with its requirements.

He migrated to the UK in 2018, just a year after the sentence expired, but when he applied for leave to remain in 2020 he denied having any prior convictions on the form.

He would later claim this was because he thought the form was asking if he had any prior convictions in the UK specifically.

Ramos was then caught in 2024 with a prostitute in his car and accepted a police caution as his punishment.

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“Renewable” energy policies can’t work – because of physics

Chapter 1: The Physics That Demolishes Energy Policy, Or Why You Can’t Boil An Egg In A Swimming Pool

By Richard Lyon, 3 March 2026

On Saturday, I told you I’d written a book and promised to walk through its core arguments chapter by chapter. Some long-standing readers will recognise what follows from a post I wrote in 2024. This is the sharper, tighter version that became the book’s opening chapter – the foundation everything else rests on. If you’re new here, start here.

There is far more heat energy in a swimming pool than in a pan of boiling water. You can boil an egg in the pan. You can’t boil an egg in the pool. And if you doubled the size of the pool, you’d double the energy available – and still have a cold, raw egg.

This is not a riddle. It is the single most important concept in the energy debate, and almost nobody making energy policy understands it.

Gradient

To do useful work, energy must flow from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration. This difference is called the energy gradient. The steeper the gradient, the more work you can extract. A shallow gradient means the energy is real but useless.

Think of a ski slope. A run that falls 1,000 feet over 1,000 feet of distance is steep enough to let gravity do the work. A ski queue that falls 10 feet over 100 feet is too shallow – you have to shuffle. Now join 100 ski queues end to end. The total height difference is 1,000 feet – the same as the ski run. But do you glide down it? No. Because the gradient hasn’t changed. It’s still a long, flat shuffle.

This is exactly what happens when you build more wind turbines. A gas flame at 1,500°C in a 15°C room is a ski run – a vast temperature difference that a power generation system can exploit. A wind turbine extracts energy from air moving at perhaps 25 miles an hour. That’s real energy, but it’s a tiny gradient – the difference between a breeze and no breeze. Build a thousand turbines and the total energy grows, but the gradient of each one hasn’t changed. You haven’t built a ski run. You’ve built a thousand ski queues.

Density

Energy gradient tells you whether a source can do work, and therefore why the sheer quantity of energy available tells you almost nothing about how much useful work you can extract from it. Energy density tells you whether you can build a civilisation on it.

Diesel contains roughly 44 megajoules per kilogram. The best lithium-ion battery manages about 1. That is a ratio of 44 to 1 – and the gap is not an engineering problem. It is a chemistry problem. Carbon-hydrogen bonds release enormous energy when broken. Shuttling lithium ions between electrodes releases much less. The periodic table is not subject to software updates.

This is why you can drive from London to Edinburgh on 50 litres of diesel, but need a battery weighing half a tonne to do it in an electric car. It’s why aviation runs on kerosene and always will. It is not a matter of waiting for better technology. It is a hard physical constraint.

Every successful energy transition in history has moved up the density ladder: wood to coal, coal to oil, oil to nuclear. Each step concentrated more energy into less mass, enabling capabilities that were physically impossible before. Railways. Aviation. The globalised supply chain. The direction has always been the same: concentration.

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Brussels Launches Brazen Election Interference in Hungary: Activating ‘Disinformation’ Censorship Machine to Silence Anti-Globalist Camp Ahead of April 12 Vote

A full-scale assault on Hungarian sovereignty is underway as unelected bureaucrats in Brussels crank up their censorship apparatus just weeks before Hungary’s crucial parliamentary election on April 12, 2026.

According to a report from Brussels Signal, European Commission has shamelessly activated the so-called “rapid response” mechanism under the oppressive Digital Services Act (DSA), a naked attempt to meddle in Hungary’s internal democratic affairs and tilt the playing field against the nationalist government of Viktor Orbán.

This heavy-handed measure will stay in place until a full week after Hungarians cast their ballots, supposedly to fight “disinformation” and foreign meddling. In reality, it’s a blatant power grab by Brussels elites who cannot stomach a sovereign nation refusing to bow to their federalist agenda.

Critics rightly call it outright election interference—giving faceless EU commissars the power to dictate what Hungarian citizens can read, share, and debate online in the heat of a national campaign.

Major platforms like Meta and TikTok are now forced to team up with so-called “fact-checkers” and “civil society” groups—many fattened by EU cash handouts—to hunt down and suppress content Brussels dislikes. This creates a corrupt echo chamber: Brussels funds the watchdogs, sets the rules, and then enforces them through Big Tech. No wonder impartiality has gone out the window.

The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Brussels, via its Democracy Interference Observatory, has exposed this sham as anything but neutral. They warn it’s a politically motivated intervention designed to pre-emptively delegitimize the election if the Hungarian people dare to re-elect their patriotic leadership. The funding ties make it crystal clear: these are not independent guardians of truth, but paid extensions of the same Brussels machine targeting Hungary.

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Huh? Who On Earth Is Trump Talking To?

President Donald Trump says he has paused strikes on Iran, claiming to have had significant direct communications with Iranian figures amid the ongoing military escalation, describing the exchanges as productive, yet Israel appears to be continuing airstrikes at the same time.

Trump framed the talks as a potential path to de-escalation through verifiable compliance rather than prolonged conflict, and characterized the negotiations positively during recent comments.

“We have had very, very strong talks,” he said. “We’ll see where they lead. We have major points of agreement… They went, I would say perfectly.”

He specified the involvement of U.S. representatives. “Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner had them.”

Addressing Iranian denials broadcast on Iranian state television, Trump responded, “Well, they’re going to have to get themselves better public relations people!”

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The Donald Gets a Double-Whammy

It sure looks like the Donald is on the receiving end of a double-whammy. His victory declaration in Iran looks to rank right up there with George Dubya Bush’s “mission accomplished” pratfall on the deck of a US aircraft carrier in 2003; and that also means that his SOTU boasting about defeating “Joe Biden’s” inflation and getting the gas pump price under $2 per gallon is out the window, too.

What’s back in play front and center, therefore, is the AFFORDABILITY issue come November. The Dems have no clue about how to fix it, of course, but they sure as hell will be brutally pounding the GOP candidates and the Donald with the latter’s own bogus hot air on the matter.

For want of doubt, consider the conflagration in the global oil markets at this very moment. At ground zero in the Persian Gulf, the major crude oil from the region have already shot the moon.

Thus, Oman crude prices are up to $154/barrel, crossing $150 for the first time ever. At the same time, Dubai crude is up to $130/barrel, while Brent is trading at $110.

This means, in turn, that the gap between Oman and world prices is off-the-charts wide, and now stands at 30% or $44 per barrel. By comparison, before the Iran War, the difference between all benchmarks was just $5 per barrel during January and February.

In very short-run, of course, Brent and WTI are priced based on US and European supply conditions, while the actual disruption is concentrated in the Middle East, meaning they do not fully capture the severity of the physical shortage. YET.

On the other hand, global crude oil markets everywhere and always eventually get arbitraged, causing the major marker grades to fully reflect worldwide supply, demand and inventory conditions. So unless the Gulf is re-opened within a matter of days, the marker grades will soon rise toward these Gulf prices as global inventories continue to be liquidated.

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Epstein COVER-UP Deepens; FBI Officers Raise Alarm

Fresh Justice Department files reveal a frantic document destruction operation at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan just days after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, adding fresh fuel to suspicions of elite protection and deep state obstruction.

This latest bombshell, drawn from a Miami Herald analysis of thousands of pages in the Epstein files, fits the pattern of irregularities we’ve exposed in our prior reporting.

Less than a week after Epstein was found dead inside his cell on August 10, 2019, an inmate was ordered to take bags of shredded material to the jail’s rear gate and throw them in a dumpster on Thursday, August 15, and again on Friday, August 16. The sheer volume struck him as unusual.

“They are shredding everything,” the inmate told one of the guards, adding that he was asked to give the officials a hand with the shredding, with key records vanishing before review.

A corrections officer at the detention facility called the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center that same night, a Friday, at 6:28 p.m. to report that he had “never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate of MCC.”

The caller found it suspicious that an after-action team charged with investigating would be shredding huge amounts of paperwork with FBI, BOP and OIG officials in the building.

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Central European State Forced to Ration Fuel and Deploy Army for Transport and Logistics as Middle East War Rages On

The small, Central European state of Slovenia, the birthplace of Melania Trump, has moved to ration fuel and deploy military logistics support as a sudden surge in demand—fueled by cross-border traffic and global instability—has exposed the fragility of Europe’s energy system. The government’s emergency response reflects a growing crisis that is no longer confined to distant battlefields but is now reshaping daily life throughout the world.

The immediate trigger has been a sharp spike in fuel demand, driven in part by motorists crossing into Slovenia from neighboring countries in search of cheaper petrol and diesel. Authorities say this so-called “fuel tourism” has drained supplies at key stations, particularly near borders and along major transit routes, The Slovenia Times reports.

Under new rules, individuals are now limited to purchasing 50 liters of fuel per day, while businesses, including transport operators and farmers, can buy up to 200 liters. The restrictions apply nationwide and will remain in force indefinitely as officials struggle to stabilize supply chains.

At the same time, the government has taken the extraordinary step of mobilizing the armed forces to support fuel distribution. Military personnel are assisting with transport and logistics, highlighting the severity of the disruption and the state’s growing role in managing essential resources.

Officials insist the measures are temporary, but the scale of intervention suggests deeper structural weaknesses. The crisis has been exacerbated by volatile global energy markets following the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, which has sent oil prices soaring and strained supply networks across Europe.

In response, Slovenia has begun releasing up to 30 million liters of diesel from its strategic reserves. These reserves, totaling around 700 million liters, are intended to cover just over three months of national consumption, underscoring how quickly such buffers can be drawn down in times of crisis.

The government has also banned the export of this emergency fuel, ensuring it remains within national borders. Only selected domestic users—primarily those contributing to strategic reserves—are eligible to access these supplies.

Despite these interventions, shortages have persisted at several service stations, with some reporting demand levels multiple times higher than normal. Retailers have struggled to keep up, particularly as panic buying and stockpiling have intensified among businesses and individuals alike.

The lifting of fuel price caps on motorway service stations has further complicated the situation. Prices have surged, with some locations seeing dramatic increases, widening disparities between Slovenia and its neighbors and inadvertently fueling even more cross-border demand.

While price controls remain in place off the motorway network, these are expected to rise in the coming weeks. Government attempts to cushion the blow through tax reductions have done little to offset the broader impact of global price shocks.

Slovenia’s largest fuel distributor has warned that current measures may only offer short-term relief. Industry representatives argue that deeper structural changes are needed, particularly as the country remains heavily dependent on imported petroleum products.

The crisis has also reignited debate over European Union rules, which limit the ability of member states to restrict fuel purchases by foreign nationals. While Slovenia has considered such measures, officials have acknowledged they may violate EU law.

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