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Procter & Gamble’s sales in the United States surged higher in the first three-months of the year as households stocked up on consumer staples such as toilet paper and cleaning products. P&G, whose brands include Charmin toilet paper and Mr. Clean soaps, reported a six percent rise in its fiscal third-quarter profits to $2.9 billion. Revenues climbed five percent to $17.2 billion. Sales in the U.S. rose by rose by more than 10 percent, the biggest rise in decades, more than offsetting the drop in sales in China. P&G, along with Johnson & Johnson, appears to have been an early...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

The Tampa Bay Times and its related companies received a loan of $8.5 million under the federal government’s program to support businesses harmed by the coronavirus pandemic. The loan is guaranteed by the Small Business Administration and comes under the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act passed by Congress last month and signed by President Donald Trump. The program is designed to help smaller businesses keep paying employees during the crisis, and loan amounts are based on a company’s payroll. For the first eight weeks after a loan is made, the government will forgive repayment of expenses...

The president of the State Senate asked for $40 billion to help the pension system, fund unemployment insurance and aid hospitals and cities. Illinois needs more than $40 billion in relief from the federal government because of the coronavirus pandemic — including $10 billion to help bail out its beleaguered pension system, according to a letter the Illinois Senate president sent to members of Congress. The letter, sent this week by State Senator Don Harmon, also seeks a $15 billion grant to “stabilize the state’s budget,” $9.6 billion in direct aid to Illinois’s cities, $6 billion for the state’s unemployment...

Trans activist targets Christian baker, againChristian Colorado baker Jack Phillips is in court again over refusing to bend to the LGBT agenda, and it's clear he's being targeted by a trans activist. After successfully slugging out a six-year case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in his favor in 2018, Phillips went back to court on April 9 after refusing to make a birthday cake celebrating a person's so-called gender transition. His accuser? A man calling himself Autumn Scardina, who's also an attorney. He's alleging $100,000 in damages, fines and attorneys' fees after Phillips refused to bake a birthday cake...

Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- The governor of New Jersey said on Wednesday that he had not considered the Bill of Rights when issuing an order banning religious gatherings as part of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Appearing on Fox News on April 15, Gov. Phil Murphy (D), a Catholic, was questioned by host Tucker Carlson about his executive order in the light of constitutional protections for religious worship and the freedom to congregate. In Lakewood, New Jersey, 15 people attending a funeral for a recently-deceased rabbi were arrested at a synagogue on April...

The head of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques in Saudi Arabia has ordered distribution of Zamzam Water among coronavirus patients. According to Saudi Arabia’s state news agency, SPA, Abdulrahman Al-Sudais has issued the order for helping the patients spiritually. Zamzam water will be distributed in hospitals where there are patients being treated for the coronavirus. Zamzam water comes from the Zamzam well located in the Masjid Al-Haram in Mecca. It is believed in the Islamic faith that it is a miraculously generated source of water from God. Saudi Arabia has reported 4,462 cases and...

On Tuesday, April 13, the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church petitioned the state to lift the recently-instituted curfew this coming weekend so the Orthodox faithful can celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection. In addition to a curfew from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM, President Vucic also banned all movement from 5:00 PM Saturday to 5:00 AM Monday two weeks ago, thus wholly depriving the people of the ability to attend the Sunday Divine Liturgy. After the new measures, the services began to be celebrated without parishioners, although they were celebrated with respect to all the relevant sanitary and safety measures...

In 1831, the plague had started from India and reached Makkah where it took the lives of 3/4th pilgrims in the Makkah.Did you know that Hajj has been canceled 40 times in the world history due to plagues, political fights and battles. Muslims from every part of the world are now concerned whether this year’s Hajj would be held or not due to the pandemic of COVID-19. It is noted that coronavirus is spreading more rapidly than it happened ever before. And because of this fact, the Health Minister of Saudi Arabia stated that at the moment there is no...

MENDOCINO COUNTY, California, April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On Good Friday, a county in the Golden State issued an order to churches banning singing ostensibly to further stem the spread of the coronavirus. Mendocino County, which hugs California’s Pacific Coast about 100 miles north of San Francisco, published a revision of its former “Shelter in Place Orders” which some observers are saying goes too far. The directive, which is in force until May 10, limits events, including live-streamed events, to four individuals. It goes on to state: No singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas, or other instruments that could...

A small plane caused a stir Thursday morning when it landed on a highway near Quebec City. Motorists who were driving on Highway 40 near the municipality of St-Augustin-de-Desmaures alerted the police around 10:40 a.m. Sgt. Helene Nepton of the provincial police said the aircraft landed without incident, and nobody on the plane or on the highway was injured.

White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci says critics incorrectly believe that “testing is everything” as states prepare to reopen from the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci, who enjoys broad respect among Democrats for his willingness to contradict President Trump, said testing concerns are over-hyped as Trump proposes that states pursue a phased reopening. “The emphasis that we’ve been hearing is essentially ‘testing is everything’ and it isn’t,” Fauci said Friday night at a White House press conference.

Post what you remember of the habits and practices of these generations, almost all of the last of them died in the 70s and 80s. There are a few out there hanging on but they tend to be the younger ones and weren't adults experiencing this. 1. Gentlemen were expected to always have a Handkerchief in his front pocket so it is immediately at the ready to cover his mouth. 2. A Great Gentleman will have two, one for himself and another that he could give to another.

Joe Biden says he'll bring dignity back to the Presidency. Nothing is more dignified than a confused, bungling, old man bumping into walls with a long history of groping and hair sniffing and dozens of money scandals in his family.— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) April 17, 2020

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I need some help and I can't think of a better place to get it then my very intelligent and informed and wise Free Republic community. I have a vacation scheduled for June 5th through the 13th flying from Cincinnati to Las Vegas renting a car from Hertz and going to Zion National Park and the north rim of the Grand Canyon and then Canyonlands and Arches. I would be staying in 3 Inns. Tomorrow on the 18th I plan to call Delta and the three ends and hurts and see if any of this is actually possible to happen....

A black Miami doctor was handcuffed outside his home last week while on his way to hand out tents to the city’s homeless during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Home / politic / Viral / Eric Holder: Coronavirus is 'an opportunity’ to permanently change US voting system Eric Holder: Coronavirus is 'an opportunity’ to permanently change US voting system Aprail Mathews April 17, 2020 politic, Viral Former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that he sees the coronavirus as “an opportunity” to change the way U.S. citizens vote forever. “Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder told Time magazine. Holder went on to say that he supports shifting toward...

A Maine lawmaker is planning to join protesters next week who are demonstrating against the state’s stay-at-home order as similar protests play out across the country against state and local social distancing measures. State Rep. Chris Johansen (R) said he wants to Gov. Janet Mills (D) to ease some of the restrictions she put on local businesses that have been forced to close after being declared non-essential. Johansen is currently hosting an event on Facebook calling Mainers to circle the governor's residence in Augusta to join the “Re-Open Maine” Convoy and Parade. “The 1st amendment enshrines our Right to peaceably...