(CNN)On Tuesday, President Donald Trump taped a town hall with Sinclair Broadcasting Group's Eric Bolling. In it, Bolling asked the President a simple question -- and the answer Trump gave is hugely revealing.

Bolling: "With Covid, is there anything that you think you could have done differently, if you had a mulligan or a do-over on one aspect of the way you handled it, what would it be?"

Trump: "Not much."

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(CNN)Barack Obama, in a moment of catharsis that doubled as a warning against Democratic complacency, blasted President Donald Trump in a speech dripping with ridicule ahead of Thursday's crucial debate -- perhaps the President's last chance to turn around his campaign.

The former President on Wednesday released four years of pent-up frustration in a scathing Philadelphia appearance that is likely to further irk an already irritable commander-in-chief ahead of his showdown with Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The debate in Nashville, Tennessee, comes at a fateful moment in the White House race as fresh polls emphasize the task Trump faces in pulling off another shock election triumph in 12 days.

In a new CNN/SSRS survey, Biden leads comfortably in Pennsylvania, potentially the decisive swing state, with a clear path to 270 electoral votes if he converts leads in Wisconsin and Michigan into wins. That leaves Trump needing the kind of late surge that took him to a stunning 2016 victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. It also means his clash with Biden, already crucial given that their second debate was canceled after his Covid-19 diagnosis, could be a final opportunity to shake up the race.

But with a staggering 40 million early votes cast, the capacity of either candidate to change the dynamics of the election is becoming increasingly limited. As he geared up for the debate, Trump slammed the whole exercise as unfair, resentful about at a plan to periodically mute the candidates' mics designed to limit his belligerent interruptions and baselessly accusing moderator Kristen Welker of NBC of bias.
He is likely to have been especially infuriated by Obama's mockery and forensic dismissal of his record given his contempt for, and obsession with, the former President. Obama's appearance on the eve of a debate in which Trump's hair-trigger temper will be sorely tested was probably not a coincidence.


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PETALING JAYA: The uproar rages over “No Further Action” (NFA) against Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali who breached mandatory home quarantine upon his return from abroad.

The decision to classify the case as NFA after more than 100 days of police investigations was made by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC).

Reason: A health ministry officer failed to issue Khairuddin a 14-day home quarantine order on his return from Turkey in July.


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You’re going to die.

So am I, as we all are.

We rarely, if ever, give much thought to what happens once our body goes limp and cold – after rigor mortis sets in and there’s as much activity in our body as there is in a rock or Eminem’s face.


The scientific establishment’s sanitised, sterilised, safe-for-public-consumption answer is that nothing happens. Richard Dawkins, the high priest of the physicalist worldview, calls us “lumbering robots”. By that logic, at death, we are “lumbering robots” who have simply stopped lumbering.

We are told that our body’s sudden state of disrepair at death means we cease existing and start on the slow process of decay and disintegration till our bodies turn into nothing but dust and fertiliser.

Death, we have been led to believe, is irrevocable. And final.

Mainstream science dismisses any belief in reincarnation, despite the fact that throughout the ages there have always been groups of people, even civilisations, which have believed in it.


But now, the highly credentialled researchers at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) are uncovering evidence that reincarnation is not pure balderdash.

Founded by the late Dr Ian Stevenson in 1967, it is one of the exceedingly few mainstream universities which study paranormal phenomena such as reincarnation, near-death experiences, and altered states of consciousness.

The fact that he managed to set up an entire department at a respected institution like the University of Virginia devoted entirely to what’s considered by mainstream science as woo-woo or pseudoscience – something that’s often choked out by the stifling straightjacket of the scientific establishment – speaks volumes about how compelling his cases were. They simply couldn’t be ignored.

One of the most eerily scintillating cases to date was one that his protege, Dr Jim Tucker, also from the University of Virginia, was alerted to in 2009.

From the tender age of four, Ryan Hammons of Oklahoma would cry and beg his mum to be taken to Hollywood, California, where he insisted he used to live. Perplexed and perturbed by his frequent paroxysms, his mum picked up some books about Hollywood to help her son process his inexplicable angst.

While they were riffling through one of them, a picture from the 1932 movie Night After Night caught Ryan’s attention and while pointing at a person standing on the periphery of it, he animatedly exclaimed: “That’s me! I found me!” He was pointing to a man who was an uncredited extra with no lines in the movie.

Realising it was about time she got professional help, his mother contacted Tucker and together they got in touch with a Hollywood archivist to uncover the name and identity of this mystery man Ryan was claiming to have been in a previous life.


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