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The Federal Reserve kept its pledge to keep interest rates anchored near zero and promised to keep rates there until inflation rises consistently. As the central bank concluded its two-day policy meeting Wednesday, it said short-term rates would remain targeted at 0%-0.25%. Officials also changed their economic forecasts to reflect a smaller decline in GDP and a lower unemployment rate in 2020. Projections from individual members also indicated that rates could stay anchored near zero through 2023. All but four members indicated they see zero rates through then. This was the first time the committee forecast its outlook for 2023....

Remember the Democratic firm that said Donald Trump could have a huge lead on election night that will end with Joe Biden beating him due to mail-in ballots? Well, Pennsylvania just made that scheme easier by trashing the voter signature provision. Counties in the Keystone State were told they can’t reject a ballot over an election official’s objections regarding signatures. Sounds like it’s a situation that is ripe for fraud (via AP): With concerns rising in Pennsylvania that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots will be discarded in the presidential election over technicalities, officials in the presidential battleground told counties...

Senate panels investigating whether law enforcement, US intel turned blind eye to concerns. A Treasury Department agency that polices financial threats such as money laundering flagged several foreign transactions to Hunter Biden-connected businesses as “suspicious” during the end of the Obama administration and the beginning of the Trump administration. The concerns from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) concerns were highlighted in Suspicious Activity Reports turned over to Senate committees over the last year in conjunction with investigations into the Russia and Ukraine scandals, according to several officials familiar with the evidence. As those Senate investigations wind toward the issuance...

Professor's model 'a leading indicator' of November results rofessor of political science whose controversial election model has correctly called five of the last six U.S. presidential elections says President Trump will win reelection in 2020 in a "landslide." Helmut Norpoth, who teaches at Stony Brook University, is giving Trump "a 90-percent chance of being re-elected in a landslide," the Long Island, N.Y., school said in a recent press release. Norpoth's "Primary Model" has correctly predicted nearly every presidential election since 1996, missing only George Bush's 2000 victory over Al Gore. (When the model is "applied to previous elections," Stonybrook said,...

A handgun, not an assault rifle, was used to shoot the deputies. But it seems that Biden never misses an opportunity to deceptively complain about “weapons of war.”

The FReeper Canteen Presents.... ~ Constitution Day, September 17, 1787 ~ We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall)...

Explanation: Why does asteroid Bennu eject gravel into space? No one is sure. The discovery, occurring during several episodes by NASA's visiting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, was unexpected. Leading ejection hypotheses include impacts by Sun-orbiting meteoroids, sudden thermal fractures of internal structures, and the sudden release of a water vapor jet. The featured two-image composite shows an ejection event that occurred in early 2019, with sun-reflecting ejecta seen on the right. Data and simulations show that large gravel typically falls right back to the rotating 500-meter asteroid, while smaller rocks skip around the surface, and the smallest rocks completely escape the low...

Software UpdateApple today released iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, and watchOS 7. This is probably the biggest iOS update in years... read all about it on the source, MacDailyNews, as there are too many improvements to list here.

In a conversation with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made no secret of his desire to “sell” the visa-free regime to the Ukrainian people and said that the U.S. government “plays an enormous role” in establishing peace in Ukraine. It became known from the next series of recordings of conversations between Poroshenko and Biden which were published on September 16 by the MP Andriy Derkach. The recording was made on November 16, 2016, when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, as Strana agency reports. Biden: Hey, Patro. It’s Joe. How are...

With Senator Kamala Harris and Joe Biden making recent admissions about the actual power dynamic behind the Democrat 2020 presidential ticket more people are starting to take notice. What exactly is this Harris-Biden ticket all about?

I have a proposal for everyone who rejects the censorship being imposed on Americans by the monopolistic social media giants. This October 1st at 12 pm est we should encourage every member of FR and all of our friends and all of their friends to post a copy of the Declaration of Independence on FB, Instagram and Twitter. We should do this every minute for at least thirty minutes and lets continue to do this every day at 12 pm est until this censorship stops. We should call this “The American Rejection Of Social Media Censorship” movement. Viva La Revolution!

The last time an enemy force dropped a bomb on American troops was in the Korean War. "China and Russia, seek to erode our longstanding dominance in air power through long-range fires, anti-access/area-denial systems and other asymmetric capabilities designed to counter our strengths," he said. "Meanwhile, in space, Moscow and Beijing have turned a once peaceful arena into a warfighting domain." China and Russia have placed weapons on satellites and are developing directed energy weapons to exploit U.S. systems "and chip away at our military advantage," he said.

Democrats hoped that Republican defections from President Donald Trump would help former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but an article in The Nation observes that Trump is consolidating support, even from “Biden Republicans.” National affairs correspondent Jeet Heer noted in an article titled “Biden Republicans Are a Political Illusion”: In late August, Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff under President Barack Obama as well as onetime mayor of Chicago, declared, “This will be the year of the Biden Republican. To that end, much of the Democratic National Convention was tailored to please Republicans more than Democrats, with plenty...

Thirty three square meters [355 square feet] of land doesn't seem big enough to build a house on. But architect and educator Choi Min-wook designed a five-story residential building for himself, his wife and their cat on a tiny plot of land in the heart of Seoul.

Tucker ping!

Col Steve Zodiac is suing Elon Musk and SpaceX for intellectual property theft of Fireball XL5's rocket design. Steve stated "Elon and SpaceX's Starship design is a rip off of our 1962 interplanetary Supermarionation design. Additionally, he stole our Neural Network design from my copilot Robert the Robot. And don't get me started on some of his other flying machine ideas, I had flying motorcycles before Elon was a glint in his mother's eye!" Col Steve added: "Just don't mess with our theme song!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxec0-bJw90

Sky News host Rowan Dean says the jury is in and says categorically “Hydroxychloroquine saves lives” and Australians must be given access to the drug. Mr Dean said Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, along with his deputy Nick Coatsworth and Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen “stand condemned” for their continuous rejections of the drug. Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by many as a potential treatment to COVID-19, however Dr Kelly declared to the Australian people it was not effective. Mr Dean said “the jury says very clearly, if you look at all the studies … Hydroxychloroquine is consistently effective against COVID-19 when...

America’s “silent majority” must speak out to protect the nation’s foundation from the left, said Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, offering his analysis on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Murray described a growing political divide — predicated on conflicting perceptions of America’s past — across America possibly leading to civil war. “I think there is a fundamental divide which occurs in societies on occasion, and it should be eased rather than accentuated, and it’s been accentuated in the U.S. in recent years, and it’s for this one...

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The men began interrogating her, she said. Why are you here? Who are you? What are you doing? “They asked me if I knew about the looters and rioters.” She was confused until she realized they were probably talking about rumors, all debunked, that left-wing radicals were setting fires around the state and then stealing people’s possessions once they evacuated.