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Some weeks there’s not much of great importance. Others, like this week, there is almost too much to absorb, but in my view the key items are the destruction of the terrorist Hezb’allah organization, the vacuity of Kamala Harris and the media’s great efforts to glide her into office while hiding her agenda, the pernicious ruling class and why they have forfeited our trust, and lastly, the pending scandal which ties celebrities and key Democrats to sex trafficking and racketeering. Destruction of Hezb’allahAlmost four decades since Hezb’allah killed hundreds of Americans in the bombing of our barracks in Lebanon, the...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A federal jury in Philadelphia found the Langhorne-based Sesame Place not liable in a racial discrimination lawsuit.The class action lawsuit, which was filed in 2022, claimed the Bucks County amusement park's character performers refused to interact with children during parades and meet-and-greets based on the color of their skin.https://6abc.com/post/jury-finds-langhorne-based-sesame-place-not-liable-discrimination-lawsuit/15327860/

Just over a week after Thomas Donlon became Interim Police Commissioner of New York City, federal authorities executed a search warrant at his home on Friday, Donlon said in a statement Saturday night. “On Friday, September 20th, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Donlon said in a statement. “They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department.” Law enforcement officials say the search warrant is related to documents that the commissioner may have retained from his previous positions...

I have been happily using Kaspersky anti-virus software to protect my computer for years. It never caused me any problems. Other softwares, notably NORTON, allowed a virus to infect my computer years ago, and could not be removed by home measures. So the BIDEN administration has decided that Kaspersky is too much of a risk by a hostile foreign government to continue to operate in the U.S. and now the company has to close shop in the U.S. and fire all its employees. I haven't shopped for a new anti-virus software for years. Which ones should I look at? I...

Joe Biden was filmed snapping at staffers after an awkward gaffe during a final meeting with a group of world leaders. The president, 81, barked 'Who's next?' while introducing a leader from the 'Quad' nations of Australia, India and Japan at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night. Ending his introductory speech about the Quad's efforts to beat cancer, Biden said: 'So I want to thank you all for being here. And now, who am I introducing next?'

She has launched her presidential campaign on a platform of taking on corporate wrongdoing and clamping down on billionaires. But in practice, Kamala Harris is seeking advice from the same big business leaders she claims to be raging against. The vice president has been attempting to woo captains of industry by inviting them to lunches and personally guided White House tours.

According to a BBC News report, students discovered a message in a bottle at a Gaulish village site in northern France. Much of the 2,000-year-old fortified village has been lost to the erosion of the cliff where it is located. The message had been rolled up, tied with a string, and placed in a vial of the type that women used to wear round their necks to hold smelling salts, said municipal archaeologist Guillaume Blondel. The vial had then been placed in a pot and buried. "P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations...

Janet Jackson has claimed that Kamala Harris is not black - and that the Democrats' 2024 presidential nominee has a white father. Jackson, 58, made the shocking assertion in an interview with The Guardian, when asked on her feelings about the United States having its first female black president. 'Well, you know what they supposedly said?' the singer answered. 'She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.'

A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland's northwestern coastline, according to a report in The Irish News. Bog butter is dairy or animal fat that has been placed in cool, oxygen-poor peat in order to preserve it, or perhaps as a gift to the gods. "The bogs would have acted as a cool place, almost like a refrigerator and the butter would have stayed there until it was retrieved by the farmer, or perhaps in this case the local community, and then subsequently was lost...

... Sir Keir and Rayner have also held meetings with unions who contribute to the party coffers, amid doubts some have about the green agenda and how policies can fit with the future of traditional industries. Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB union, warned the party leadership it must listen to union voices. "If Labour fails to listen to us on the issues about real jobs in places like oil and gas, and steel, and manufacturing and industry, the difficulty they will have is communities will get hollowed out, people will lose their jobs and the only winners will...

Ok just posting this one time, these are now being shipped (in Vietnam) — VinFast (VFS) announced it has officially begun shipping its new mini electric SUV, the VinFast VF 3. Starting under $13,000, the new VF 3 generated strong buzz, with VinFast calling it a “social media phenomenon” ahead of shipments. After introducing the VF 3 in January, VinFast said the new mini electric SUV is designed to make city travel “not only sustainable but also more accessible.” Four months later, VinFast opened pre-orders with a special introductory price of 235 million VND, or about $9,248. That’s for the...

Half a billion fans, a multi-million dollar personal fortune and a global business empire. It would take a lot to dethrone YouTube's biggest influencer Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast. But a 54-page court document could be his toughest test yet. Five female contestants on upcoming Prime Video show Beast Games are launching legal action against his production company MrB2024 and Amazon in Los Angeles. Billed as the largest ever reality competition series, 1,000 contestants are set to compete for a $5m (£3.7m) prize when the show airs - or if it airs. The lawsuit has plunged the show into crisis. Among...

The Democrat mayor of a community with many Arab-Americans in Wayne County, Michigan, who helped lead the uncommitted movement in the Democrat primary, told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that his meeting with former President Donald Trump last week “was very productive” and well received by the community, which traditionally votes Democrat. Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib (D) spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle in a nearly 20-minute segment on the program on the heels of his meeting with Trump in Flint, Michigan. Hamtramck, along with Dearborn and other cities in Wayne County, have sizable Muslim and Arab-American...

In LibreOffice Calc, if I have two fields I wish to compare to within a plus-minus value, and then if the spread between the two numbers is too great, both will, say, flash red, how do I do that?

A Ukrainian kamikaze drone strike reportedly struck Vladimir Putin's Satan-2 nuclear missile, prompting an apocalyptic explosion yesterday morning. A secret ammunition silo facility at Toropets in Tver region that housed one of the Russian President's nuke missiles was hit by Ukrainian drone, it was claimed yesterday. It allegedly happened just ten miles from an 'indestructible' 30,000 ton munitions storage site that had been obliterated on Wednesday. A huge explosion was triggered when the 'Satan-2' missile was hit, causing locals to panic over fears of a Doomsday detonation. The claim that the missile was destroyed came from a Russian Telegram channel...

When I was younger, especially from high school through my early days as a non-Catholic Christian pastor, I had this strong sense that if a person always did what was right, “things would work out.” That is to say, righteousness was the path to the good life. God would pave the way in front of the person that does his will. There is some truth to that, of course. A great deal of interior and exterior suffering is cause by our wicked and selfish choices. When I used to work as an urban missionary, occasionally I would have the chance...

There were idols for me to put away... The feds rolled out their case against Sean Diddy Combs this week but when "Diddy" or anyone else is accused of a crime isn't there a notion of: Innocent Until Proven Guilty... God Bless You Ammon your story as it played out in 2016 led this blog into its being... Diddy Do It I Asked Earlier But Make No Mistake Israel Did It! It's time for our Israel Update John Williams... A lot of smarty pants humor about male parts being lost in the explosions but... Benjamin Netanyahu using the election here...

A clinical trial has demonstrated that the cancer drug pomalidomide is safe and effective in treating hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a rare bleeding disorder that impacts more than one in 5,000 people. The trial was stopped early because of these successful findings. HHT is a condition in which blood vessels become unusually tangled and twisted. This can lead to excessive nosebleeds that hallmark the disease. HHT also causes bleeding in the digestive tract and can produce serious complications in the lungs, liver and brain. Bleeding episodes worsen with age. There are no FDA-approved medications for long-term management of HHT. Dr....

Can Harris fix America's deteriorating fiscal health? Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed approximately $5 trillion in tax hikes over the next ten years, targeting wealthy Americans and rich corporations. For a federal government forecast to register $2 trillion in budget deficits during the same span, could this be the revenue boost needed to fix America’s deteriorating fiscal health? The projections show her policies are not even close to plugging the federal budget’s gaping hole.Kamala’s Tax Hikes – A Primer The public has heard the same song-and-dance routine for the last 20 years: Washington must make the affluent pay their...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.